* Waterlabyrinth, Nijmegen, designed by Klaus van de Locht, 1981 ()

Beuningen () is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands close to the city of Nijmegen.

The Algemeen Nijmeegs Studentenblad is an independent student magazine for the Radboud University Nijmegen.

On the south bank of the Waal ( in what is now Nijmegen ) a Roman administrative center was built, called Oppidum Batavorum.

A live frog is Magnetic levitation | magnetically levitated, an experiment that earned Andre Geim from the University of Nijmegen and Sir Michael Berry ( physicist ) | Michael Berry from University of Bristol the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize in physics.

An office building is illuminated by sodium lamp | high pressure sodium ( HPS ) lamps shining upward, of which much light goes into the sky and neighboring apartment blocks and causes light pollution, in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Nijmegen has a gap in its history: there is practically no evidence of habitation in the early Middle Ages.

The first mention of Nijmegen in history is in the 1st century BC, when the Romans built a military camp on the place where Nijmegen was to appear ; the location had great strategic value because of the surrounding hills, which gave ( and continues to give ) a good view over the Waal and Rhine valley.

In 98 Nijmegen was the first of two settlements in what is now the Kingdom of the Netherlands to receive Roman city rights.

As of this date, Nijmegen is still known as Havana on the Waal among some Right-wingers.

Nijmegen is one of the warmest cities of the Netherlands, especially during summer, when the highest temperatures in the country are usually measured in the triangle Roermond – Nijmegen – Eindhoven.

Nijmegen is in USDA Hardiness zone 7b and AHS Heat zone 3.

Nijmegen is host to Radboud University Nijmegen.

In addition to these institutions, there is also an intermediate-level vocational school ( ROC Nijmegen ) and a number of secondary schools: Groenschool Nijmegen, Kandinsky College, Nijmeegse Scholengemeenschap Groenewoud ( NSG ), Citadel College, Stedelijke Scholengemeenschap Nijmegen ( SSGN ), Canisius College, St. Jorisschool, Lindenholt College, the Stedelijk Gymnasium ( formally the " Latijnse school ", founded in the 16th century ), the Karel de Grote College, Montessori College and the Dominicus College.

Nijmegen is also an important centre of Psycholinguistics, home to the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics and the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour.

During 2010-2012 the cycle highway is receiving upgrades to further encourage the use of bicycles for transport between Nijmegen and Arnhem.

The House of the Nijmegen History is situated in a unique mediaeval chapel ' de Mariënburgkapel '; its mission is to let enjoy people of the history of the town and to be a guide for everybody who wants to visit the oldest city of the Netherlands.

Nijmegen is famous for the International Four Day March Nijmegen (, informally Nijmeegse Vierdaagse ), an annual event starting on the third Tuesday in July, comprising four days of walking ( distances ranging from 30 to 50 km a day ), and the accompanying festivities ( the Vierdaagsefeesten including the independent festival de-Affaire ), which have been drawing the largest crowds for any Dutch event in the past few years.

In 1968 prominent liberal theologians in the Roman Catholic Church issued what is now known as the Nijmegen Statement, demanding sweeping reforms in the Vatican's Holy Office, previously known as The Inquisition, and calling for greater scope for theological inquiry.

The municipality is formed by the city of Nijmegen, incorporating the former villages of Hatert, Hees and Neerbosch, as well as the urban expansion project of Waalsprong, situated north of the river Waal and including the village of Lent and the hamlet of't Zand, as well as the new suburbs of Nijmegen-Oosterhout and Nijmegen-Ressen.

Mook en Middelaar (, ) is a municipality in the mid-eastern part of the Netherlands, at the northern tip of the province of Limburg and is a part of Stadsregio Arnhem Nijmegen.

The municipality lies in the proximity of Arnhem, Nijmegen and Elst, where most inhabitants work.

It is a part of the municipality of Gennep, and lies about 17 km southeast of Nijmegen.

It is located in the municipality of Overbetuwe, about 10 km northwest of Nijmegen.

* Lent, Netherlands, a village in the municipality of Nijmegen, Netherlands

Some people consider Nijmegen the oldest, mainly because it was the first settlement in the Netherlands to receive Roman city rights.

In 1230 his son Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor granted Nijmegen city rights.

In 1940, The Netherlands was invaded by Germany with Nijmegen being the first Dutch city to fall into German hands.

On February 22, 1944, Nijmegen was heavily bombed by American planes, causing great damage to the city centre.

More recently, on February 23, 1981, the Nijmegen Police Department and the Dutch Army stormed the Piersonstraat and Zeigelhof, a squatted housing block in the city centre of Nijmegen.

The Socialist Party, the Green Party and Labour have a solid two-thirds majority in City Council, making Nijmegen the only major city in the Netherlands with a solely Left-wing government.

In November 2005, the city centre of Nijmegen was the site of the assassination of political activist Louis Sévèke by a former activist ( Marcel T .).

The deal states that the squatters will receive a large piece of land near the fort to start a community in the rural area in between the city of Nijmegen and Arnhem.

* Limbourg brothers, ( Herman, Paul, and Johan ; 1385 – 1416 ), Dutch Renaissance miniature painters from the city of Nijmegen.

This was roughly the area around the city of Nijmegen, Netherlands, within the Roman Empire.

For example, the larger part of the Veluwe and the city of Nijmegen were given as collateral to Guelders by their cash-strapped rulers.

In 1674, French troops again took the city, which the Treaty of Nijmegen ( 1678 ) then awarded to France.

In 1935, however, he interrupted his theological training to study law at the Radboud University Nijmegen, after graduating in 1940 he practiced law in that same city up until 1950, in the meantime also teaching economics at his old secondary school in Roermond.

The Treaty of Nijmegen in 1678 made Roeselare a border city, a situation that encouraged smuggling rather than regular economic development.

** Veolia Transport Limburg, operating in the whole province of Limburg, including city buses in Maastricht, Parkstad ( Heerlen-Kerkrade-Landgraaf-Brunssum ), Venlo, and Roermond and the Roermond – Nijmegen and Maastricht – Kerkrade train routes.

The city was finally conquered by France under King Louis XIV in 1673 and officially ceded by the 1679 Treaties of Nijmegen.

By forcibly taking the Imperial city the French now controlled two of the three bridgeheads over the Rhine ( the others being, Breisach which was already in French hands, and Philippsburg, which Louis XIV had lost by the Treaty of Nijmegen ).

By the Treaties of Aix-la-Chapelle ( ending the War of Devolution in 1668 ) and Nijmegen ( ending the Franco-Dutch War in 1678 ), further territory up to the current Franco-Belgian border was ceded, including Lilloise Flanders ( around the city of Lille ), as well as half of the county of Hainaut ( including Valenciennes ).

From 71 to 103, the legion was stationed at the base built by II Adiutrix at Oppidum Batavorum, the present day Dutch city of Nijmegen.