The origin of the name of Winschoten is not known but it has received nicknames.

Vitus is the patron saint of the city of Rijeka in Croatia, the towns of Ciminna in Sicily, Forio on the Island of Ischia, in Campania, Italy, the contrada of San Vito, in Torella dei Lombardi, in Avellino, Italy, the town of Winschoten in the Netherlands, and the town of St. Vith located in Belgium.

Winschoten (, Gronings: Winschoot ) is a former municipality and city in the northeast of the Netherlands.

Winschoten was the capital of the ' Oldambt ' district, in a fertile agricultural region.

Winschoten has a railway station on the line from Groningen to Leer ( in Germany ) and a road connection to the rest of the Netherlands via the A7 motorway.

There used to be 13 mills in Winschoten, today only three large, monumental windmills remain in the town.

There are numerous Protestant churches in Winschoten including an assembly of Plymouth Brethren.

A free-standing 16th-century bell tower is one of the features of the Winschoten skyline.

When this church was demolished it was brought to Winschoten to replace an old altar.

In 1940 Winschoten had the second largest Jewish community in The Netherlands after Amsterdam.

During the Second World War, Winschoten was a transit port to Germany for the Jew-transports.

Of the 493 Jews that lived in Winschoten at the beginning of the war, only 20 survived.

Born in Winschoten, he studied law at the University of Groningen.

It is located in the municipality of Oldambt, about 12 km east of Winschoten.

Bastiaan Johan Christiaan " Bas Jan " Ader ( born April 19, 1942 Winschoten, The Netherlands-lost at sea in 1975 between Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Ireland ) was a conceptual artist, performance artist, photographer and filmmaker.

Ader grew up in Winschoten, The Netherlands, cared for by his mother, as one of the 2 sons of Christian minister Bastiaan Jan Ader and Johanna Adriana Ader-Appels.

Heiligerlee ( Gronings: Kloosterholt ) is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen bordering the town of Winschoten, it is part of the municipality of Oldambt.

In 1918 he became teacher of classics and deputy headmaster in Winschoten.

Mischa Hillesum was born on 22 September 1920 at Winschoten.

Etty spent her childhood years in Middelburg, Hilversum ( 1914 – 16 ), Tiel ( 1916 – 18 ), Winschoten ( 1918 – 24 ) and Deventer, from July 1924 on, where she entered the fifth form of the Graaf van Burenschool.

* Winschoten, cantons: Jemgum, Wedde, Weener and Winschoten.

Newexco in Winschoten ( the Netherlands ) is founded.

`` Only a relative handful of such reports was received '', the jury said, `` considering the widespread interest in the election, the number of voters and the size of this city ''.

Shaw and Skorich headed a group of players, coaches and team officials who received an engrossed copy of an official city citation and a pair of silver cufflinks shaped like a football.

Arnulf then proceeded to the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, where he received the homage of the Roman people, who swore “ never to hand over the city to Lambert or his mother Ageltrude ”.

The city also received state funds for the new library and opened the doors to the new facility in November 2006.

Herald photographer Stanley Forman received two Pulitzer Prizes consecutively in 1976 and 1977, the first being a dramatic shot of a young child falling in mid-air from her mother's arms on the upper stories of a burning apartment building to the waiting arms of firefighters below, and the latter ( known as " The soiling of Old Glory ") being of Ted Landsmark, an African American city official, being beaten with an American flag during Boston's school busing crisis.

The king and his mayor then turned to besiege their other rival in the city and took it and the treasury, and received the recognition of both Chilperic as king and Ragenfrid as mayor.

As the Kingdom of God described in the New Testament and particularly the Book of Revelation, Heaven is a new or restored earth, a World to Come, free of sin and death, with a New Jerusalem led by God, Jesus, and the most righteous of believers starting with 144, 000 Israelites from every tribe, and all others who received salvation living peacefully and making pilgrimages to give glory to the city.

From a rural village in the early Middle Ages Delft developed to a city, that in the 13th century ( 1246 ) received its charter.

The city received numerous merchant privileges from the rulers of England, Poland, Pomerania, and the Teutonic Order.

As Elbing became an industrial city, the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) frequently received the majority of votes ; in the 1912 Reichstag elections the SPD received 51 % of the vote.

The Nouveaux quatuors were enthusiastically received by the court and the city musicians.

In 1529, the city embraced Lutheranism, and Hamburg subsequently received Protestant refugees from the Netherlands and France and, in the 17th century, Sephardi Jews from Portugal.

The city of Dallas received the building well, and a local television news crew found unanimous approval of the new city hall when it officially opened to the public in 1978.

This awoke in him a lifelong love for Italian music, particularly opera: I had brought with me from Paris the prejudice of that city against Italian music ; but I had also received from nature a sensibility and niceness of distinction which prejudice cannot withstand.

With the help of lawyers in August 1937 he was successful in claiming a pension ; he received a cash settlement for his house, which had been taken over by the city of Cologne ; his unpaid mortgage, penalties and taxes were waived.

In 1954, he received the Karlspreis ( English: Charlemagne Award ), an Award by the German city of Aachen to people who contributed to the European idea, European cooperation and European peace.

According to ancient Greek sources, a hecatomb ( a sacrifice of 100 cows ) was carried out for the festival and the people received the meat in the Kerameikos, possibly in the Dipylon courtyard ; excavators have found heaps of bones in front of the city wall.

In the peace negotiations that followed, Tarquinius received the town of Collatia and appointed his nephew Aruns Tarquinius, surnamed Egerius, as commander of the garrison which he stationed in that city.

The celebration was organized by Abraham de Vries, a Coster fan who became Haarlem's first librarian in 1821 and who received a commission from the city fathers to acquire Costeriana, or material relating to Coster's claim to fame.

Landau was later occupied by the French from 1680 to 1815, when it was one of the Décapole, the ten free cities of Alsace, and received its modern fortifications by Louis XIV's military architect Vauban in 1688 – 99, making the little city ( population in 1789 was still only approximately 5, 000 ) one of Europe's strongest citadels.

In 1175, Munich was officially granted city status and received fortification.

Shortly after 1200 the city received dual authority, with the prince-bishops of Liège and the dukes of Brabant holding joint sovereignty over the city.