Aelbert Cuyp was born in Dordrecht on October 20, 1620, and also died there on November 15, 1691.

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.

By the late 1940s the ' Type 10 ' was ready to be handed over to Philips ' subsidiary Johan de Witt in Dordrecht to be productionised and incorporated into a generator set as originally planned.

In earlier centuries, Dordrecht was a major trade port, well known to British merchants, and was called Dort in English.

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

Dordrecht was made even more important when it was given staple right in 1299.

In 1253 a Latin school was founded in Dordrecht.

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.

The Union of Dordrecht was held in an Augustinian monastery, nowadays simply called het Hof (" the Court ").

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.

The Japanese battleship Kaiyō Maru was launched at Dordrecht in 1865.

Dordrecht was finally liberated by the Canadian Army

Much of the finer work was produced in Delft, but simple everyday tin-glazed pottery was made in places such as Gouda, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Dordrecht.

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.

Dort was a contemporary English term for the town of Dordrecht ( and it remains the local colloquial pronunciation ).

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.

Another important aspect in the schism was a conference held at Ohnenheim, Alsace, by several Swiss Brethren ministers and elders in 1660, in which they formally adopted the Dordrecht Confession of Faith that had been drawn up by Dutch Mennonites.

Light-drenched washes of golden brown ink depict a distant view of the city of Dordrecht or Utrecht.

* Dordrecht receives city rights, making it the oldest city in the present-day Netherlands.

Satellite image of part of the Rhine-Meuse delta, showing the Island of Dordrecht and the eponymous city ( 7 )

Dordrecht (), colloquially Dordt, historically in English named Dort, is a city and municipality in the western Netherlands, located in the province of South Holland.

Dordrecht is the largest and most important city in the Drechtsteden and is also part of the Randstad, the main conurbation in the Netherlands.

Dordrecht is the oldest city in Holland and has a rich history and culture.

In the 12th and 13th centuries, Dordrecht developed into an important market city because of its strategic location.

In the 18th century, the importance of Dordrecht began to wane, and Rotterdam became the main city in the region.

The States General started to convene in the rebel city of Dordrecht, and by 18 July, only the important cities of Amsterdam and Schoonhoven openly supported the Crown.

Meanwhile the National Synod was convened in the city of Dordrecht in November, 1618.

He came into conflict with the city of Dordrecht and was killed there by a mob on 30 August 1299.

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.

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.

He was secretary of the city of Dordrecht

It was the second largest city in historical Holland after Dordrecht and before Delft, Leiden, Amsterdam, Gouda and Rotterdam.

Dordrecht was founded in 1856 by a minister Pastor Smithdorff of the Dutch Reformed Church and named after a city of South-West Netherlands.

* Dordrecht, ( English: Dort ) a city in the Netherlands

The part of the Biesbosch that borders the city of Dordrecht.

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.

At the lower point where the flood water reached the city of Dordrecht is the point where flood water still remains today.

FC Dordrecht is a football club from the city of Dordrecht in the Netherlands, currently playing in the Eerste Divisie.

* 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.

View of Dordrecht, by Aelbert Cuyp.

Dordrecht around 1565, by Jacob van DeventerIn 1572, four years into the Dutch Revolt, representatives of all the cities of Holland, with the exception of Amsterdam, as well as the Watergeuzen, represented by William II de la Marck, gathered in Dordrecht to hold the Eerste Vrije Statenvergadering (" First Assembly of the Free States "), also known as the Unie van Dordrecht (" Union of Dordrecht ").

* 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.