Groesbeek municipality

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Groesbeek municipality was a former local government area in the Dutch province of Gelderland, known for its hilly landscape, World War II history, and eventual incorporation into the municipality of Berg en Dal.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf former municipality
borderWith Germany
contains Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery
National Liberation Museum 1944–1945
agricultural land
forested hills
country Netherlands
dissolvedOn 2015-12-31
geographyFeature moraine hills
rolling countryside
governmentType municipality government
hadMayor local mayor of Groesbeek
hadMunicipalCouncil Groesbeek municipality self-linksurface differs
surface form: Groesbeek municipal council
hasBorderType international land border
hasCapital Groesbeek NERFINISHED
hasHeritage Second World War battlefields
liberation routes
hasTourismType hiking and cycling tourism
war tourism
historicalEventSite Allied airborne landings in 1944
Operation Veritable
knownFor Operation Market Garden sites
World War II history
hilly landscape
locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Gelderland NERFINISHED
locatedInRegion Rijk van Nijmegen
eastern Netherlands
locatedInTimeZone CET
mergedInto Berg en Dal municipality
namedAfter Groesbeek
surface form: Groesbeek (village)
observesDaylightSavingTimeZone CEST
officialLanguage Dutch
partOf Dutch province of Gelderland NERFINISHED
Kingdom of the Netherlands
Arnhem–Nijmegen metropolitan area
surface form: Nijmegen metropolitan area
reorganizedAs Berg en Dal municipality
sharesBorderWith Heumen municipality
Kleve (Germany) NERFINISHED
Kranenburg (Germany)
municipality of Mook en Middelaar
surface form: Mook en Middelaar municipality

municipality of Nijmegen
surface form: Nijmegen municipality
terrainType farmland
low hills
wooded areas
transportConnection roads to Kleve
roads to Nijmegen

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Berg en Dal formedByMergerOf Groesbeek municipality
Millingen aan de Rijn mergedInto Groesbeek municipality
this entity surface form: municipality of Groesbeek
Groesbeek municipality hadMunicipalCouncil Groesbeek municipality self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Groesbeek municipal council
Millingen aan de Rijn municipality adjacentTo Groesbeek municipality
subject surface form: Millingen aan de Rijn (municipality)
this entity surface form: Groesbeek (former municipality)
Ubbergen municipality sharesBorderWith Groesbeek municipality
subject surface form: Ubbergen
this entity surface form: Groesbeek (former municipality)