Bredevoort is a small city with city privileges in the municipality of Aalten, Gelderland province, Netherlands, with about 1,660 residents in 2021 across 6.73 square kilometers. First named in a 1188 property record of the Archbishop of Cologne, it was conquered by Maurice of Nassau in 1597 and retaken by Spanish forces in 1606, merged into Aalten municipality in 1818, and has rebranded itself since as a book town with more than twenty second-hand bookshops.
Facts
Area (sq km) Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Bredevoort - Wikipedia
Infobox, population_total
1,660
Infobox, population_as_of
2021
Infobox, area_total_km2
6.73
Infobox, elevation_m
35
Wikidata claim P625 coordinate location (latitude component)
51.95,6.6166666666667
Wikidata claim P625 coordinate location (longitude component)
51.95,6.6166666666667
- In Group: Cities of Western Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
View the Source2. Bredevoort (Wikidata)
3. GeoNames: Bredevoort - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2758393
51.94167 6.62083 P PPL NL 03 0197 1405 28 Europe/Amsterdam
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 28 m
View the Source 4. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 51.75, 6.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 51.75, 6.75
51.75 6.75 Cfb
Wikidata: Bredevoort
Wikidata Q73501, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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