The Zuidvleugel ( South Wing, with a population of around 3. 5 million people ), stretching some 60 kilometers from Dordrecht in the South East to Leiden in the North.

De Witt controlled the Netherlands political system from around 1650 until shortly before his spectacular death in 1672 working with various factions from nearly all the major cities, especially his hometown, Dordrecht, and the city of birth of his wife, Amsterdam.

Farmers around Dordrecht also grow potatoes.

Reclaimed parts are the Island of Dordrecht, the Hoeksche Waard island, and north-western North Brabant ( around Geertruidenberg ).

It is this reluctance which was felt by the Rijksmuseum to reattribute works to other painters ( Abraham van Calraet does not even appear in a Museum catalogue until 1926, and even then he is not given his own entry ) which shows how important it is to art historians that painters are accurately connected to their works — and this is continuously necessary for those of Aelbert Cuyp, as Dordrecht ’ s most famous painter may not in fact be Dordrecht ’ s most famous painter.

* Four towns of the county of Holland ( Dordrecht, Haarlem, Leiden and Alkmaar ) and two of the county of Zeeland ( Middelburg and Zierikzee ) accept for the first time to collectively secure a loan by their sovereign, Floris V. This system gives important securities to the lenders and allows the ruler to access the same low interest rates as the cities ’ governments.

* from the island of Dordrecht on the southeast by the Oude Maas

Godson, Atmospheric Thermodynamics, published by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 1973, 222 pages

The municipality covers the entire Dordrecht Island, also often called Het Eiland van Dordt ( the Island of Dordt ), bordered by the rivers Oude Maas, Beneden Merwede, Nieuwe Merwede, Hollands Diep, and Dordtsche Kil.

Dordrecht is informally called Dordt by its inhabitants.

Around 1120 the first reference to Dordrecht was made by a remark that count Dirk IV was murdered 1049 near " Thuredrech ".

View of Dordrecht, by Aelbert Cuyp.

Dordrecht was granted city rights by William I, Count of Holland, in 1220, making it the oldest city in the present province of South Holland.

This secret meeting, called by the city of Dordrecht, was a rebellious act since only King Philip II or his stadtholder, at that time the Duke of Alva, were allowed to call a meeting of the states.

From 1780 to 1787, Dordrecht was home to the Patriots faction which intended to remove the hereditary Stadtholder position held by the House of Orange-Nassau.

Dordrecht was finally liberated by the Canadian Army

* Józef Maria Bocheński 1960 Précis of Mathematical Logic, translated from the French and German editions by Otto Bird, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, South Holland.

Synod of Dordrecht ( 1729 ), by Bernard Picart.

The Synod of Dort ( also known as the Synod of Dordt or the Synod of Dordrecht ) was a National Synod held in Dordrecht in 1618 – 1619, by the Dutch Reformed Church, to settle a divisive controversy initiated by the rise of Arminianism.

In 1619 Frederik de Houtman, in the VOC ship Dordrecht, and Jacob d ' Edel, in another VOC ship Amsterdam, sighted land on the Australian coast near present day Perth which they called d ' Edelsland.

In 1619 he, in the VOC ship Dordrecht, and Jacob d ' Edel, in another VOC ship Amsterdam, sighted land on the Australian coast near present-day Perth which they called d ' Edelsland.

His father was Jacob de Witt, an influential regent and burgher from the patrician class in the city of Dordrecht, which in the seventeenth century, was one of the most important cities of the dominating province of Holland.

Van Almonde learned the maritime profession under his uncle, the frigate commander Jacob Cleidijck, becoming a cadet on his ship the Wapen van Dordrecht in 1661.

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*" Self-profile " in Alvin Plantinga, James Tomberlin and Peter van Inwagen ed., ( Dordrecht: D. Riedle Pub.

Maagd van Dordrecht 68 ( Vice-Admiral Jan Jansse van Nes )

Dordrecht 44 ( Frans van Nijdek )

Godfried Schalcken was born in 1643 at Dordrecht, and he studied under Samuel van Hoogstraten in Dordrecht before he moved to Leiden, into the studio of Gerard Dou ( 1613 – 1675 ), one of Rembrandt's most famous pupils.

Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten was born and died in Dordrecht.

first a pupil of his father Dirk van Hoogstraten, living at Dordrecht until about 1640.

Cornelis van Vollenhoven ( 8 May 1874, Dordrecht – 29 April 1933, Leiden ) was a Dutch law professor and legal scholar, best known for his work on the legal systems of the East Indies.

The concert hall also includes a large new organ by J. L. van den Heuvel Orgelbouw, which has already been completed in their workshops in Dordrecht, Netherlands.

Peter Hurkos ( born Pieter van der Hurk on 21 May 1911 in Dordrecht, the Netherlands ; died 1 June 1988 in Los Angeles, California ) was a Dutchman who allegedly manifested extra-sensory perception ( ESP ) after recovering from a head injury and coma caused by a fall from a ladder when aged 30.

After the flood, three areas remained: the Island of Dordrecht to the west, the Land van Altena ( with the city of Woudrichem ) to the east, and the brackish swamps of the Biesbosch in between.

Oudewater took place in the First Free Statescouncil in Dordrecht on July 19, 1572, Oudewater was one of the twelve cities taking part in the first free convention of the States-General in Dordrecht.

After the establishment of the Republic of the United Netherlands in 1572 / 1581, Dordrecht briefly became the seat of government of the United Provinces, residence of the States General, the Council of State and the Prince of Orange as Prince Stadtholder.

After spending some time in Friesland and in the Electorate of the Palatinate he was in 1570 taken into the service of William, prince of Orange, and in 1572 was sent as his representative to the first meeting of the States-General assembled at Dordrecht.

The States of Holland, assembling at Dordrecht in 1572, openly declared against Alba's government, and marshaled under the banners of the prince of Orange.

The NS covers most of the country, with almost all cities connected, mostly with a service frequency of two trains an hour or more ( and at least four trains per hour between all of the largest 5 cities: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht and Eindhoven as well as some larger cities: Nijmegen, Amersfoort, Arnhem ,'s-Hertogenbosch, Dordrecht and Leiden ).

There is partly a common tariff system with four smaller passenger train operating companies — Syntus and Connexxion in the east, Veolia on the ' Maaslijn ' and ' Heuvellandlijn ' in the south east, Arriva in the north of the country and on the ' Merwede-Lingelijn ' ( from Dordrecht to Geldermalsen ).

Bol delivered four paintings for the two mansions of the brothers Trip, originally also from Dordrecht.