Utrecht (province)

Provincie Utrecht
Province of Utrecht

border	Coat of arms of Utrecht
Flag	Coat of arms

Location of Utrecht

Capital

Utrecht

Queen's Commissioner

Mr. B. (Boele) Staal

Religion (1999)

Protestant 27%
Catholic 20%

Area
• Land
• Water

1,386 km (12th)
63 km

Population (2006)
• Total
• Density

1.180.039 (5th)
851/km (3rd)

Anthem

Langs de Vecht en d'oude Rijnstroom

ISO

NL-UT

Official website

www.provincie-utrecht.nl

Utrecht ( (helpinfo)) is the smallest province of the Netherlands, and is located in the center of the country. It is bordered by the Eemmeer in the north, Gelderland in the east, the river Rhine in the south, South Holland in the west, and North Holland in the northwest. Utrecht makes up one region of the International Organization for Standardization world region code system, having the code -UT. Important cities in the province are its capital, also called Utrecht, Amersfoort and Zeist.

History

In the Middle Ages, most of the area of the current province was ruled by the bishop of Utrecht. The bishopric was founded in 722 by Willibrord. Many wars were fought between Utrecht and the neighbouring counties and duchies, Holland, Gelderland and Brabant. In 1527, the bishop of Utrecht sold his worldly power over his territories to Emperor Charles V, who already owned the other Dutch provinces. However, the Habsburg rule did not last long, as Utrecht joined the revolt of the United Provinces against Charles's son Philip II of Spain in 1579. In World War II, Utrecht was held by German forces until the general capitulation of the Germans in the Netherlands on May 5, 1945. It was occupied by Canadian Allied forces on May 7, 1945. The towns of Oudewater, Woerden and Vianen were transferred from the province of South Holland to Utrecht in 1970, 1989 and 2002 respectively.

Geography

In the east of Utrecht lies the Utrechtse Heuvelrug, a chain of hills left as lateral moraine by tongues of glacial ice after the Saline glaciation that preceded the last ice age. Because of the scarcity of nutrients in the fast-draining sandy soil, the greatest part of a landscape that was formerly heath has been planted with pine plantations. The south of the province is a river landscape. The west consists mostly of meadows. In the north are big lakes formed by the digging of peat from bogs formed after the last ice age.

Geological "Sand Landscapes" of Utrecht

Map of the Netherlands, linking to the province pages; the red dots mark the capitals of the provinces and the black dots other notable cities or towns

Municipalities

Famous Utrechters

Gerrit Rietveld- De Stijl designer and architect the Schröder House, at Utrecht.

• • [ e] Provinces of the Netherlands
Drenthe • Flevoland • Friesland • Gelderland • Groningen • Limburg • North Brabant • North Holland • Overijssel • South Holland • Utrecht • Zeeland

• • [ e] Seventeen Provinces (1477) — Burgundian Circle (1512)
States	Artois \| Brabant \| Drenthe \| Flanders \| Friesland \| Groningen \| Guelders \| Hainaut \| Holland \| Limburg \| Luxembourg \| Mechelen \| Namur \| Overijssel \| Utrecht \| Zeeland \| Zutphen
Dependent territories	Antwerp \| Besanon \| Breda \| Burgundy

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Utrecht

Flag
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Coordinates:
Country Netherlands
Province Utrecht
Area (2006)
- Municipality 99.
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Langs de Vecht en d'oude Rijnstroom is the title of Utrecht's (The Netherlands) regional anthem. Its text was written in 1952 by the provincial employee J. Küppers, on the melody of Angels from the Realms of Glory of the 19th Century composer Henry Smart.
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The Netherlands

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Motto
"Je maintiendrai" (French)
"Ik zal handhaven" (Dutch)
"I shall stand fast"¹
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Provincie Gelderland
Province of Gelderland

Flag Coat of arms

Capital Arnhem
Largest city Nijmegen
Queen's Commissioner Clemens Cornielje
Religion (1999) Protestant 31%
Catholic 29%
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Origin Grisons, Switzerland

Basin countries Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, France, Netherlands
Length 1,320 km (820 mi)
Source elevation Vorderrhein: approx. 2,600 m (8,500 ft)
Hinterrhein: approx. 2,500 m (8,200 ft)

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Provincie Zuid-Holland
Province of South Holland

Flag Coat of arms

Capital The Hague
Largest city Rotterdam
Queen's Commissioner Jan Franssen
Religion (1999) Protestant 24%
Roman Catholic 17%
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Provincie Noord-Holland
Province of North Holland

Flag Coat of arms

Capital Haarlem
Largest city Amsterdam
Queen's Commissioner Mr. H.C.J.L.
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Utrecht

Flag
Coat of arms

Coordinates:
Country Netherlands
Province Utrecht
Area (2006)
- Municipality 99.
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Amersfoort

Coordinates:
Country Netherlands
Province Utrecht
Area (2006)
- Municipality 63.78 km (0 sq mi)
- Land 62.
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Zeist

Coordinates:
Country Netherlands
Province Utrecht
Area (2006)
- Municipality 48.64 km (0 sq mi)
- Land 48.
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The Archdiocese of Utrecht is a Roman-Catholic archdiocese based in the Dutch city of Utrecht. It was a Prince-Bishopric of the Holy Roman Empire from 1024 until the collapse of the Empire in the French Revolutionary Wars in 1806, being a territory of the Habsburgs from 1528
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Willibrord (c. 658 – November 7, 739) was a Northumbrian missionary, known as the "Apostle to the Frisians" in modern Netherlands. He became the first Bishop of Utrecht and died at Echternach, Luxembourg.

His father, Wilgils or St.
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Holland is a region in the central-western part of the Netherlands with a population of 6.1 million people. Holland was a county of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by the Count of Holland, and later became the dominant province of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces
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Duchy of Brabant was a historical region in the Low Countries. It consisted not only of the three actual Belgian provinces of Flemish Brabant, Walloon Brabant and Antwerp and Brussels-Capital Region but also the present-day Dutch province of North Brabant.
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