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){kind=small} is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is located on both sides of the North Sea Canal.
On the North side of the North Sea Canal, in Velsen-Noord, there is a major steel plant, Corus Strip Products IJmuiden, formerly known as Koninklijke Hoogovens. The headquarter of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding Maatschappij is located in IJmuiden. The Kennemerstrand beach on the south side of the canal is at the end of the Kennemerboulevard, which runs south of the Seaport Marina. To the south is the beach of Bloemendaal aan Zee. In between is a nude beach. Population centresThe municipality of Velsen consists of the following cities, towns, villages and/or districts:
TransportationIn Velsen, there are the following connections across the North Sea Canal:
Local governmentThe municipal council of Velsen consists of 33 seats, which are divided as follows:
HistoryThe ruins of a Roman naval base at Velsen are believed to be ancient Flevum, which is listed as Phleoum, Romanized to Phleum, in Ptolemy (2.10).References
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..... Click the link for more information. Motto "Je maintiendrai" (French) "Ik zal handhaven" (Dutch) "I shall stand fast"1 Anthem ..... Click the link for more information. Provincie Noord-Holland Province of North Holland Flag Coat of arms Capital Haarlem Largest city Amsterdam Queen's Commissioner Mr. H.C.J.L. ..... Click the link for more information. North Sea Canal or Noordzeekanaal is a Dutch ship canal from Amsterdam to the North Sea at IJmuiden, constructed between 1865 and 1876 to enable seafaring vessels to reach the port of Amsterdam. ..... Click the link for more information. Velsen-Noord () is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Velsen, and lies about 10 km north of Haarlem. The village Velsen-Noord has a population of around 4960. ..... Click the link for more information. Corus Group plc Private Founded Koninklijke Hoogovens N.V. in 1918 British Steel plc in 1984 Merger of British Steel & Koninklijke Hoogovens 1999 Headquarters London, England, UK Key people Philippe Varin, CEO Industry Steel ..... Click the link for more information. Koninklijke Hoogovens was a Dutch steel producer founded in 1918. The company merged with British Steel to create Corus Group steel company. In 2007, Corus Group was purchased by India-based Tata Steel. HistoryOn April 19 1917, H.J.E...... Click the link for more information. Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding Maatschappij (KNRM) is the Dutch voluntary organization tasked with saving lives at sea along the Dutch coast of the North Sea, Wadden Sea and on the IJsselmeer. For that purpose, it maintains 39 stations from which its lifeboats operate. ..... Click the link for more information. IJmuiden () is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is the main town of the municipality of Velsen, and lies about 9 km north of Haarlem. ..... Click the link for more information. Bloemendaal aan Zee is part of the municipality Bloemendaal. It's in between the beaches of IJmuiden up North and Zandvoort down South. Like Zandvoort it has popular beaches. ..... Click the link for more information. naturist beach or nude beach is a beach where the users generally wear no clothing. If clothing is optional then, to emphasize that, also the terms clothing-optional beach and free beach may be used. ..... Click the link for more information. Velsen-Noord () is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Velsen, and lies about 10 km north of Haarlem. The village Velsen-Noord has a population of around 4960. ..... Click the link for more information. Velsen-Zuid () is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Velsen, and lies about 9 km north of Haarlem. The village Velsen-Zuid has a population of around 930. ..... Click the link for more information. Driehuis () is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Velsen, and lies about 8 km north of Haarlem. ..... Click the link for more information. IJmuiden () is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is the main town of the municipality of Velsen, and lies about 9 km north of Haarlem. ..... Click the link for more information. Santpoort-Noord () is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Velsen, and lies about 6 km north of Haarlem. ..... Click the link for more information. This article is copied from an article on Wikipedia® - the free encyclopedia created and edited by online user community. The text was not checked or edited by anyone on our staff. Although the vast majority of the Wikipedia® encyclopedia articles provide accurate and timely information please do not assume the accuracy of any particular article. This article is distributed under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Includes work by Koen van Velsen, Sjoerd Soeters, Wiel Arets and Atelier Pro, among others. 1978; Cummings 1997), [beta]-benzene hexachloride (BHC) (Coosen and Velsen 1989), endosulfan, toxaphene, and dieldrin (Soto et al. Voith Paper received an order to optimize Paper Machine Number 2 at Crown Van Gelder, Velsen, the Netherlands. |
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