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Maasdriel () is a
''Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Maasdriel, June 2015''
municipality
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in the province of Gelderland
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, in the eastern Netherlands
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Maasdriel was formed on 1 January, 1999 by the merger of the former municipalities of Ammerzoden (including Well, Wellseind en Wordragen), Hedel, Heerewaarden, Maasdriel (Alem, Hoenzadriel, Kerkdriel and Velddriel) and Rossum (including Hurwenen). The former municipality of Maasdriel was called "Driel" before 1944.Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006.
Populated places
Topography
''Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Maasdriel, June 2015''
Notable people
*Johannes Zwijsen
Johannes Zwijsen (Zwysen) (28 August 1794 – 16 October 1877) was a Dutch Catholic prelate who served as the first Archbishop of Utrecht after the reestablishment of the episcopal hierarchy in the Netherlands in 1853.
Early life and priesthood ...
(1794 in Kerkdriel – 1877) Roman Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht
The Archdiocese of Utrecht (; ) is an archdiocese of the Latin Church (or Western Church) of the Catholic Church in the Netherlands. The Archbishop of Utrecht is the metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of Utrecht. There are six suffragan ...
* Jacobus Groenendaal (1805 in Heerewaarden – 1860) a South African statesman
* Johannes Hubertus Leonardus de Haas (1832 in Hedel – 1908) a Dutch animal and landscape painter of the Hague School
The Hague School () is a group of artists who lived and worked in The Hague between 1860 and 1890. Their work was heavily influenced by the realist painters of the French Barbizon school. The painters of the Hague school generally made use of re ...
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