IJsselmonde is a former village in the
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province of
South Holland. It was located to the east of the city of
Rotterdam
Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"Ne ...
. The village ("IJssel mouth") derives its name from the river
Hollandsche IJssel
The Hollandse (or Hollandsche) IJssel (; "Holland IJssel", as opposed to the 'regular' or Gelderland IJssel) is a branch of the Rhine delta that flows westward from Nieuwegein on river Lek through IJsselstein, Gouda and Capelle aan den IJsse ...
, which flows into the
Nieuwe Maas
The Nieuwe Maas (; "New Meuse") is a distributary of the Rhine River, and a former distributary of the Maas River, in the Dutch province of South Holland. It runs from the confluence of the rivers Noord and Lek, and flows west through Rotterd ...
opposite the village. The village gives its name to the large island it's on,
IJsselmonde.
IJsselmonde was a separate municipality until 1941 when it merged with Rotterdam.
[Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. ] In the area of the municipality, a large residential area was built, which is now the
IJsselmonde borough of Rotterdam.
References
External links
Map of the former municipality in 1868
Former municipalities of South Holland
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