Nijmegen (nld)

Nijmegen

Nijmegen ranks 967th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Meiningen, Jalandhar, and Fukuyama, Hiroshima. Memorable people born in Nijmegen include Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor, Peter Canisius, and Joris Ivens. Memorable people who died in Nijmegen include Theophanu, Dries van Agt, and Edward Schillebeeckx. Nijmegen has been the birth place of many athletes, and soccer players and the death place of many politicians, and religious figures. Nijmegen is located in Netherlands.

Nijmegen is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and the ninth largest of the Netherlands as a whole. Located on the Waal River close to the German border, Nijmegen is one of the oldest cities in the Netherlands and the first to be recognized as such in Roman times. In 2005, it celebrated 2,000 years of existence. Read more on Wikipedia