Cuijk
Encyclopedia
Cuijk is a municipality
and a town in the southern Netherlands
of pre-historic origin. Its existence is recorded on the Roman roadmap Tabula Peutingeriana
under the name of Ceuclum. Cuijk is twinned with Maldon in Essex, UK. It is a big commuter town
with very good public transport services to nearby Nijmegen. The nearest hospital is at Boxmeer and the nearest international airport is situated in the german town of Weeze.
, Sint Hubert , Haps
, Katwijk, Linden, Sint Agatha, and Vianen.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
and a town in the southern Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
of pre-historic origin. Its existence is recorded on the Roman roadmap Tabula Peutingeriana
Tabula Peutingeriana
The Tabula Peutingeriana is an itinerarium showing the cursus publicus, the road network in the Roman Empire. The original map of which this is a unique copy was last revised in the fourth or early fifth century. It covers Europe, parts of Asia and North Africa...
under the name of Ceuclum. Cuijk is twinned with Maldon in Essex, UK. It is a big commuter town
Commuter town
A commuter town is an urban community that is primarily residential, from which most of the workforce commutes out to earn their livelihood. Many commuter towns act as suburbs of a nearby metropolis that workers travel to daily, and many suburbs are commuter towns...
with very good public transport services to nearby Nijmegen. The nearest hospital is at Boxmeer and the nearest international airport is situated in the german town of Weeze.
Population centres
Population centers include BeersBeers (Netherlands)
Beers is a village in the Dutch municipality of Cuijk. It is located about 4 km west of Cuijk. Beers has a population of about 1745: 1305 in the village itself, and 440 in the surrounding countryside, including the hamlets De Plaats and Dommelsvoort....
, Sint Hubert , Haps
Haps
Haps is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the municipality of Cuijk, about 5 km south of the town of Cuijk.Haps was a separate municipality until 1994, when it became a part of Cuijk....
, Katwijk, Linden, Sint Agatha, and Vianen.