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The Waal was bridged in 1878 by a rail bridge and in 1936 by a car bridge, which was claimed to be Europe's biggest bridge at the time.
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The strategic position, to wit the high bank of the Waal — which offered an unimpeded view far into Germania Transrhenana ( Germania Beyond the Rhine )— was recognized first by Drusus, who built a massive fortress ( castra ) and a headquarters ( praetorium ) in imperial style.
On the south bank of the Waal ( in what is now Nijmegen ) a Roman administrative center was built, called Oppidum Batavorum.
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 1923 the current Radboud University Nijmegen was founded and in 1927 a channel was dug between the Waal and Maas rivers.
During the Reformation the Catholic Church was persecuted and the Dutch dioceses north of the Rhine and Waal were suspended by the Holy See.
A conflicting explanation is that Wall Street was named after Walloons -- possibly a Dutch abbreviation for Walloon being Waal.
Five hours after the initial landing, feeling that the British were tied down in Arnhem, the Reconnaissance Battalion of the 9th SS Panzer Division was able to cross the Arnhem bridge and drive to Nijmegen and the bridge over the Waal branch of the Rhine.
In 1915, a perfectly preserved iron and bronze Roman cavalry helmet, known as the Nijmegen Helmet, was uncovered on the left bank of the Waal in Nijmegen.
Originally the Zwijndrechtse Waard, on which the municipalities of Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht and Zwijndrecht and the village of Rijsoord ( partially ) lie, was a separate river island, the western branch of river Waal separating the two.
Ochten was flattened by British forces using artillery and mortars from south of the Waal.
The 10th SS Division was sent south to respond to the American landings at Nijmegen and defend the " island " ( the polder between the Lower Rhine and Waal rivers ), while the 9th would defend Arnhem.
After that, it was merely " a side-show to the crisis being enacted on the Waal ".
It was originally conceived by Henri van de Waal, and was further developed by a group of scholars after his death.
No sacred Armenian fact was left un-attacked .” Thomas de Waal describes Mammadova as a sophisticated end of what “ in Azerbaijan has become a very blunt instrument indeed .” Both Ziya Bunyadov and Farida Mammadova are known for their anti-Armenian public pronouncements and pamphlets.
The river was once a branch of the river Waal, being cut off at Tiel in 1307 or thereabouts ( some traces of this can still be seen ).
De Waal was born in's-Hertogenbosch.
De Waal was first to introduce the thinking of Machiavelli to primatology, leading to the label " Machiavellian Intelligence " that later became associated with it.
Thus, the label of " reconciliation " which de Waal introduced for reunions after fights was questioned at first, but is now fully accepted with respect to animal behavior.
Whether or not the Castle Mill met with this fate, it was restored on 25 June 1804 by Napoleon to Count Philipp Franz von der Leyen ( d. 1829 ), and he later sold it – no later than 1820 – when the prince was getting rid of his last holdings on the Middle Rhine, only to acquire Schloss Waal ( a castle in Ostallgäu ) a few years later.
The 82nd was to take the bridge across the Maas river in Grave, seize at least one of four bridges across the Maas-Waal canal and the bridge across the Waal river in Nijmegen.
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The Batavi were mentioned by Julius Caesar in his commentary Commentarii de Bello Gallico, as living on an island formed by the Rhine River after it splits, one arm being the Waal the other the Lower Rhine / Old Rhine ( hence the Latin name Insula Batavorum, " Island of the Batavi ").
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.
This view is criticized by primatologist Frans de Waal, who refers to it as the " veneer theory ".
De Waal has warned of the danger of romanticizing bonobos: " All animals are competitive by nature and cooperative only under specific circumstances " and that " when first writing about their behaviour, I spoke of ' sex for peace ' precisely because bonobos had plenty of conflicts.
The left wing would cover the Army's northern flank by moving up to the Waal near Nijmegen and isolating the German 15th Army situated on the Dutch coast.
The Waal has significant adverse water quality due to discharge of raw sewage by France, Germany and Belgium.
The municipal boundaries are for a large part defined by the river Waal to the south, the river Rhine to the North and the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal to the west.
Overbetuwe is bordered in the north by the river Rhine and in the south by the river Waal.
The town is enclosed by the Waal river and the Linge river on the south and the north side, and the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal on the east side.
Zaltbommel ( in the upper right hand corner of the image ) is situated on the banks of the Rhine, on a stretch of the river called Waal ( river ) | Waal by the Dutch.
The online Iconclass browser is developed by the Henri van de Waal Foundation.
Bemmel lies between two major cities ; Arnhem and Nijmegen, and is thus bordered by the rivers Rhine and Waal.
This role has nowadays been taken by the Rhine and Waal rivers.
Netsuke are the main subject of the book " The Hare with Amber Eyes " by Edmund de Waal.
From his homeland of Batavia, Civilis tried for some time to attack the Roman army in a series of raids by land and, with help of his fleet, in the rivers Waal and Rhine.
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After the war, Gavin and his staff were criticised for the decision to secure the high ground around Groesbeek before attempting the capture of the Waal bridge at Nijmegen.
The 504th took the bridge across the Waal river, but it was too late, the 2nd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment, 1st Airborne Division, was defeated and couldn't hold on any longer to their north side of the Arnhem bridge.
The Guards Armoured Division, which attacked the south side of the Waal river bridge would not advance towards Arnhem until the following afternoon.
A number of individual sonnets also rose to fame, particularly De Moeder de Vrouw (" The Mother the Woman / Wife ") commemorating the opening of a bridge over the river Waal near Zaltbommel.
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This last stretch past Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, which separates the river islands of IJsselmonde and Zwijndrechtse Waard, still is called Waal.
On 10 January the army crossed the Waal near Zaltbommel, entered Utrecht on 13 January, which surrendered on the 16th.
The Afgedamde Maas river joins the Waal at Woudrichem to form the Boven Merwede, which at Hardinxveld-Giessendam splits into the Beneden Merwede river on the right and the Nieuwe Merwede river on the left.
Azerbaijan instead contends that the monuments were not of Armenian, but of Caucasian Albanian, origin, which, per Thomas De Waal, did not protect “ the graveyard from an act in the history wars .”
A short distance past Wijk bij Duurstede, the river intersects with the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal, which continues south towards the Waal.
One of the most widely read studies on the evolution of empathy, which discusses a neural perception-action mechanism ( PAM ), is the one by Stephanie Preston and de Waal ().
As Berezovsky explained later in interviews to de Waal and Goldfarb, Udugov proposed to coordinate the Islamists ' incursion into Dagestan, so that a limited Russian response would topple the Chechen president Aslan Maskhadov and establish a new Islamic republic, which would be anti-American but friendly to Russia.
Though the ship and some of its goods were returned to its owners, Block made a lot of money, with which he probably bought the house on the Oude Waal.
Molenhoek lies on the Maas river ( which originates in France as the Meuse ( river ); the Maas-Waal Canal connects the Maas at Molenhoek to the Waal near Nijmegen.
Nederrijn (" Lower Rhine " or " Nether Rhine ") is the name of the Dutch part of the River Rhine from the confluence at the town of Angeren of the cut-off Rhine bend of Oude Rijn and the Pannerdens Kanaal ( which was dug to form the new connection between the Waal and Nederrijn branches ).
It is named after Castle De Bijland, which had been destroyed by the river Waal circa 1750.
* 1809-When De Biesbosch in the Netherlands froze ice dams caused a rapid rise in waterlevels in the Meuse, Waal and Merwede, which resulted in dike breaches.
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