Sevenum (; ) is a

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in the province of Limburg in southeastern

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. Until 2010, it was also the name of the

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comprising the towns of Sevenum, Kronenberg and Evertsoord. Amusement park

Toverland Attractiepark Toverland is an amusement park located in Sevenum, the Netherlands. It first opened in 2001 as an indoor family entertainment center, family entertainment centre, operated by the Gelissen Group. Toverland won the European Star Award ...

is located in Sevenum.

Location

Sevenum's neighbour towns are (clockwise, starting from East): Blerick,

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, Maasbree, Kronenberg, Grubbenvorst, Hegelsom, Horst, Grubbenvorst. Sevenum-town and Kronenberg are tangented by highway E34, provincial road N277 ( Middenpeelweg), and the railroad track

Eindhoven Eindhoven ( ; ) is a city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of the Netherlands, located in the southern Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Brabant, of which it is the largest municipality, and is also locat ...

; Evertsoord lies on the edge of the

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, a former

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land.

Dialect

Sevenum's dialect, "Zaerums", is transitional between

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, North-Limburgish (see

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), and Brabantian, which all have tentative borders within a larger

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. The overview of town names in Limburgish at Streektaal.net lists "Zaerum" (Sevenum) and "De Kroeënenberg" (Kronenberg), but it does not include "De Pieël" (Evertsoord), considering it to be in the North-Limburgish area.

Gallery

File:Sevenum Markt.jpg, The centre of Sevenum.

References

External links

Tourist information for Northern Limburg
* {{Authority control Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 2010 Populated places in Limburg (Netherlands) Former municipalities of Limburg (Netherlands) Horst aan de Maas