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NIMEGUEN

Volume 15 · 160 words · 1815 Edition

a large, handsome, and strong town of the Netherlands, and capital of Dutch Guelderland, with a citadel, an ancient palace, and several forts. It is noted for the peace concluded there in 1695. It has a magnificent townhouse, and the inhabitants are greatly given to trade. It is seated on the Vahal or Wahal, between the Rhine and the Maeze. It is the utmost eastern boundary of the Netherlands. It contains two Dutch churches, a French Calvinist and a Lutheran Nimeguen church, five Popish, and several hospitals. It was once a Hans town and an imperial city. It was once the seat of government, has a canal to Arnhem, and considerable trade to some parts of Germany: it trades also in fine beer brewing, fattening of cattle, and exporting of its butter, which is extremely good, into all the other provinces. It was taken by the French in 1794. It is in E. Long. 5. 45. N. Lat. 51. 55.