Reusel is a village and former municipality in the south of the
Dutch
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* Dutch people ()
* Dutch language ()
Dutch may also refer to:
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province of
North Brabant
North Brabant ( nl, Noord-Brabant ; Brabantian: ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands. It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north, Limburg to the east, Zeeland to the w ...
. It is one of the villages of the municipality
Reusel-De Mierden.
The village is known on their village
dialect
The term dialect (from Latin , , from the Ancient Greek word , 'discourse', from , 'through' and , 'I speak') can refer to either of two distinctly different types of linguistic phenomena:
One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a ...
(Reusels), which is still spoken, and for the nature area Het Goor, which is also known as the Reuselse Moeren. Also the town is known for the large number of bars and shops. And the annual town fair (Reusel Kermis) is famous in the area.
Reusel existed until 1997, when it merged with
Hooge en Lage Mierde to form the new municipality of
Reusel-De Mierden.
Spurious location
Thousands of Dutch locations in family trees are spuriously identified as "Holland, Reusel-de Mierden, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands" despite having no connection to this small village. This is due to an error in popular genealogy software
Family Tree Maker, which previously would match "
Holland
Holland is a geographical regionG. Geerts & H. Heestermans, 1981, ''Groot Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal. Deel I'', Van Dale Lexicografie, Utrecht, p 1105 and former province on the western coast of the Netherlands. From the 10th to the 16th c ...
" to a narrow, 1.3 km road named "Het Holland" (The Woodland) located in Reusel, and automatically suggest this substitution. Long after the software error was corrected, these spurious locations have persisted in trees and have been uncritically copied.
Gallery
1867 Reusel.gif, Reusel in 1867
Reusel-Wegekker.jpg,
Uitkijktoren De Nieuwe Brandtoren te Reusel.jpg, Uitkijktoren "De Nieuwe Brandtoren"
References
External links
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Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 1997
Former municipalities of North Brabant
Populated places in North Brabant
Reusel-De Mierden
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