Assen has a railway station: Assen railway station.

The latter has a history which goes back to the times from when Dolmens were built, but is presently situated between two new districts of Assen.

Assen currently has about 65, 000 inhabitants, but it only got a real city scope after World War II.

The TT Circuit Assen is one of the most famous motorcycle racing circuits in the world and is the only circuit that has been in the MotoGP calendar since its beginnings in 1949.

Hanze UAS has locations in Assen ( Hanze Institute of Technology ), Leeuwarden ( Pop Culture ), and Amsterdam ( Dance Academy ).

Assen is a municipality and a city in the northeastern Netherlands, and is the capital of the province of Drenthe.

After Coevorden, then a village of about sixteen hundred people, Assen became the second place in Drenthe with city rights, granted by King Lodewijk Napoleon, who had big plans with the village.

A plan to make it a real city was set up at the time, but unfortunately for Assen, the Kingdom of the Netherlands was incorporated with France of Napoleon Bonaparte and the plans were abandoned.

The Assen TT made the city more widely known, but it was not until the 1950s with the development of an industrial core did Assen begin to grow much more quickly.

In November of each year Assen becomes the centre of international attention for the world of Ballroom and Latin American dancers when the city hosts the Assen Dance Festival which includes the " Dutch Open Championships.

The monastery was built at what now is the Brink ( i. e. the grassy area which serves as a symbolic municipal centre ) of Assen.

As administrative centre, Assen attracted well-to-do inhabitants and with that also new enterprises and initiatives, these contributed to slow but steady increase of commerce, wealth and new establishments ; such as a newspaper printing in 1823, a Latin school in 1825, a postal service on Groningen in 1830, a court in 1840, a first beginning for a garrison in 1852 and a railway station in 1870.

* The Andrej Sacharovweg is a street in Assen, Netherlands.

This canoe is exhibited in the Drents Museum in Assen, Netherlands ; other very old dugout boats have been recovered.

Assen's main claim to fame is the TT Circuit Assen the motorcycle racing circuit, where on the last Saturday in June the Dutch TT is run.

Now, Assen is not only known because of its TT, Bartje and the Drentse Rijwielvierdaagse.

Assen is also the capital of the " cycling province " of the Netherlands, Drenthe.

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The nearest station is Assen railway station.

Dwingeloo is a town halfway between Meppel and Assen.

It is a part of the municipality of Aa en Hunze, and lies about 21 km east of Assen.

Dwingeloo is a town halfway between Meppel and Assen in the Dutch province of Drenthe.

Egbert " Eppie " Wietzes ( born 28 May 1938 in Assen, Netherlands ) is a former racing driver from Canada.

* John Barclay Argenis, edited by Mark Riley and Dorothy Pritchard Huber ( Assen 2004 ) is a modern edition with facing translation of the Argenis.

Willem Schuth ( born on 14 June 1954 in Assen ) is a Dutch politician and former Member of the European Parliament for Germany with the Free Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.

The TT Circuit Assen is a motorsport race track built in 1955 and located in Assen, Netherlands.

The curves in Assen were traditionally banked and the surface is extremely grippy, so the riders were able to drive much faster on the course than other circuits.

Yde Girl and her modern reconstruction are displayed at the Drents Museum in Assen.

Major figures in the Bulgarian tradition are Dimitar Taralezhkov, Angel " Jendema " Angelov, Yavor " Yavkata " Rilov, Velizar " Valdes " Vankov, Dimitar Dobrev, Andro Stubel, Branimir " Bunny " Stoykov, Dorothea Tabakova, Mihail Belchev, Assen Maslarski, Grisha Trifonov, Plamen Stavrev, Vladimir Levkov, Margarita Drumeva, Maria Batchvarova, Plamen Sivov, and Krasimir Parvanov.

In addition, there are regular and frequent bus lines with Groningen, Hoogeveen and Assen, as well as the surrounding countryside, and Meppen in Germany, departing from Emmen's two bus terminals.

Around 1930 Assen became a central point for health care in the province, by establishing various psychiatric hospitals and healthcare centres.

The original Assen track was first used for the 1925 Dutch TT ( Tourist Trophy ) race, held on country roads through the villages of Borger, Schoonloo and Grolloo, and organized by the Motorclub Assen en Omstreken.

Corser scored two fifth places at Assen, he took BMW's first ever WSBK podium in race two at Monza, aided by a first-lap collision between Xaus, Jonathan Rea and Toseland.

The Dutch round moved to TT Circuit Assen in 2010.

Assen, Netherlands: Van Gorcum.

Assen, The Netherlands: Royal Van Gorcum Ltd, 1959.

Anreep, Assen, De Haar, Graswijk, Loon, Rhee, Schieven, Ter Aard, Ubbena, Witten, Zeijen, Zeijerveen, Zeijerveld.

The " relocated " monastery probably was erected in the 1260s, and over the centuries Assen developed around it.

Because of the central position of Assen and the fact that the government from what was then called de Landschap Drenthe ( the Landscape Drenthe ) was searching for a location for the government and civil servants, Assen became the seat for, and thus practically also the capital of Drenthe.

Assen really was not a municipality yet, not even ecclesiastical sense.

Even though there was an abbey church, Assen fell ecclesiastically and administratively under Rolde.

In 1615 Assen got its own preacher.

In 1807 Assen administratively freed itself from the control of Rolde when the village got to establish its own municipal authorities.

From that time Assen also obtained its nickname het Herenbolwerk.