Crossword clues for nijmegen
Wikipedia
Nijmegen (; Nijmeegs: Nimwegen ), historically anglicized as Nimeguen, is a municipality and a city in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is situated on the Waal river, close to the German border.
Nijmegen is the oldest city in the Netherlands, the first to be recognized as such in Roman times, and in 2005 celebrated 2,000 years of existence.
The municipality is part of the " Stadsregio Arnhem-Nijmegen" (Arnhem-Nijmegen urban region (neighbouring city, north)), a metropolitan area with 736,107 inhabitants (2011).
Usage examples of "nijmegen".
The GIs, moving into Nijmegen and Eindhoven and their other objectives, started taking casualties.
The Argonne Forest, however, nurses the headwaters, not only of the Marne, but also of the Meuse, which indeed passes to within a few miles of Nijmegen.
Cloud up the Marne, the Countess had disembarked in the vicinity of the Argonne—which as your majesty well knows was an active theatre of military operations during these weeks—and made some sort of overland journey that had eventually taken her to the Meuse, and via the Meuse to Nijmegen where we have our first report of her from d’Avaux’s informants.
They were to seize crossings over the great Maas and Waal rivers, in particular the huge multispan bridge at Nijmegen, which, with its approaches, was almost a half-mile long.
The dispute was resolved as follows: we shall ride north past French lines to Maestricht and take passage on a canal-boat down the river to Nijmegen, where the Meuse and the Rhine almost kiss each other.