Gilze en Rijen
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Gilze en Rijen is a municipality
in the southern Netherlands
. The municipality contains four villages Rijen, Gilze, Hulten and Molenschot.
Rijen grew in the 19th century due to its leather factories.
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...
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...
. The municipality contains four villages Rijen, Gilze, Hulten and Molenschot.
Rijen grew in the 19th century due to its leather factories.
Population centres
- RijenRijenRijen is the largest place in the Dutch municipality of Gilze en Rijen. The city hall is located here. Rijen is cituated north of the A58, between Breda and Tilburg. Surrounding places are: Dorst, Dongen and Oosterhout...
(population: 16,581) - Gilze (7,729)
- Molenschot (1,341)
- Hulten (328)