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Venray or Venraij (pronounced [ʋɛnˈraːi] ⓘ; Limburgish: Venroj) is a municipality and a city in Limburg, the Netherlands. The municipality of Venray consists of 14 towns over an area of 165 km 2 (64 sq mi), with 43,494 inhabitants as of July 2016. [ 4 ]
Initially the partners only drove their own sheep, but within a few years there was a network of buyers in The Netherlands, and Venray became the focus of a trade which saw tens of thousands of sheep being sent to France each year, not only by "De Grote Compagnie", but also by five smaller enterprises.
It is a part of the municipality of Venray, and lies about 20 km east of Helmond. The village was first mentioned between 1838 and 1857 as "de Heijde", and means cultivated heath. [3] Heide is located on the edge of the Peel region. In 1946, a temporary church was built. The building was replaced by a real church in 1965. [4]
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Beek is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Limburg. [2] It is located in the municipality Venray, about 3 km northwest of the center of that town. [3]Beek is not a statistical entity, [4] and the postal authorities have placed it under Merselo []. [1]
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IJsselstein (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɛisəlstɛin] ⓘ) is a municipality and city in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht.IJsselstein received city rights in 1331. . IJsselstein owes its name to the river Hollandse IJssel which flows through the c