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Utrecht (disambiguation)

Utrecht is a city in the Netherlands.

Utrecht may also refer to:

  • Utrecht (agglomeration), including the city of Utrecht
  • Utrecht (province), of which the city of Utrecht is the capital

In history:

  • Lordship of Utrecht, precursor of the province
  • Bishopric of Utrecht, precursor of the lordship
  • Archdiocese of Utrecht (695–1580), historic diocese and precursor of the bishopric

Outside the Netherlands:

  • Utrecht, KwaZulu-Natal, a South African village named after the Dutch city
  • Republic of Utrecht, named after the village
  • New Utrecht, Brooklyn, named after the Dutch city

Other:

  • Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht, current diocese of Utrecht
  • Old Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht
  • Union of Utrecht, treaty signed in 1579, regarded as the foundation of the Dutch Republic
  • Union of Utrecht (Old Catholic), a federation of Old Catholic Churches
  • Treaty of Utrecht, series of treaties signed in 1713, helped ending the War of the Spanish Succession
  • Utrecht University
  • FC Utrecht, a Dutch Association football club
  • Utrecht Art Supply, a vendor of fine art materials, based in New Jersey
  • Utrecht Caravaggism, a group of painters of the Baroque school in the early part of the seventeenth century
  • Utrecht Centraal railway station
  • Several Dutch navy ships
Utrecht (province)

Utrecht is a province of the Netherlands. It is located in the centre of the country, bordering the Eemmeer in the north, the province of Gelderland in the east, the river Rhine in the south, the province of South Holland in the west and the province of North Holland in the north-west. With an area of approximately , it is the smallest of the twelve provinces. Apart from its eponymous capital, major cities in the province are Amersfoort, Houten, Nieuwegein, Veenendaal, IJsselstein and Zeist.

In the International Organization for Standardization world region code system Utrecht makes up one region with code ISO 3166-2:NL-UT.

Utrecht

Utrecht (; ) is the capital and most populous city in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation and is the fourth largest city in the Netherlands with a population of in .

Utrecht's ancient city centre features many buildings and structures several dating as far back as the High Middle Ages. It has been the religious centre of the Netherlands since the 8th century. It lost the status of prince-bishopric but remains the main religious center in the country. Utrecht was the most important city in the Netherlands until the Dutch Golden Age, when it was surpassed by Amsterdam as the country's cultural centre and most populous city.

Utrecht is host to Utrecht University, the largest university in the Netherlands, as well as several other institutions of higher education. Due to its central position within the country, it is an important transport hub for both rail and road transport. It has the second highest number of cultural events in the Netherlands, after Amsterdam. In 2012, Lonely Planet included Utrecht in the top 10 of the world’s unsung places.

Utrecht (agglomeration)

The city of Utrecht and the surrounding cities, villages, and townships form an agglomeration in the middle of The Netherlands. It is located entirely in the province of Utrecht, and is the eastern part of so-called North Wing the larger Randstad urban area.

The agglomeration has a population of about 690.000 people (a rough estimate based on data collected in 2001-2012). The following towns are commonly recognized as part of the agglomeration:

Town

Population

Utrecht (including De Uithof and Vleuten-De Meern)

321,583 (as of 2012)

Nieuwegein

60,878 (as of 2012)

Zeist

51,071 (as of 2012)

Houten

48,408 (as of 2012)

Stichtse Vecht

62,518 (as of 2012)

IJsselstein

34,217 (as of 2012)

Bilthoven

42,058 (as of 2012)

Driebergen-Rijsenburg

18,490 (as of 2008)

Vianen

19,658 (as of 2012)

Bunnik

14,553 (as of 2012)

This interpretation of what is to be acknowledged the greater Utrecht area, is the most common one. The physically joint urban area (the innercity-Utrecht area and its surrounding authentic quarters, boroughs and outskirts; the town of Maarssen, which is connected to Utrecht by the Utrecht district of Zuilen and the Lage Weide industrial area; Nieuwegein which has grown attached to the south of the city during the seventies and nineties. To which are attached the smaller suburban towns of IJsselstein and Vianen; the former villages of De Meern and Vleuten, which have been annexed - also formally - by the Utrecht municipality and the western city expansion of Leidsche Rijn; the chained towns of De Bilt and Bilthoven, who are nearly connected to the east side of the city with less than a mile of recreational areas and infrastructure seperaping both) houses around half a million people. The other 100-200.000 inhabitants making up the entire agglomeration population mostly live in slightly more distant towns such as Zeist, Bunnik, Houten, Breukelen etc. These suburban towns and villages are situated, averagely about four of five miles from the outer districts of Utrecht city. The larger economic, cultural and educational area of which the city of Utrecht is the main centre is equal to the province of Utrecht excluding the small agglomeration of Amersfoort and the town of Veendendaal (which are more self-sufficient and self-orientated). It provides shopping facilities, employment, some large hospitals, cinemas, recreation and other facilities for around 800.000 people. If Woerden, Breukelen and Culemborg are to by included in the greater Utrecht area (seen the vast forensism towards the city) the population would be around 750.000.

In the 1970s and 1980s, large residential areas were built in Maarssen and Zeist, as well as in the new town Nieuwegein. In the 1990s, construction of new houses was concentrated in the new town Houten and in the Leidsche Rijn neighbourhood.

Usage examples of "utrecht".

Prisca, Virgin and Martyr, our Right Reverend Lord Frederic of Blanckenhem, the renowned Bishop of Utrecht, issued his license to the devout priests, Egbert van Lingen, and Wolfard, the son of Matthias, and to the other Clerks and Lay Brothers that dwelt on Mount St.

This research has been pioneered in Europe by the neuropharmacologist David De Weid, in Utrecht, in collaboration with the pharmaceutical company Organon.

In the year of the Lord 1429, the strife between them that followed Sueder and them that clave to Rodolph--who had been chosen to be Bishop--still continued, and heavy threats were made against the Regulars in that they obeyed the letter of the Apostolic See and the commandments of Sueder, Bishop of Utrecht.

William the Silent while Stadtholder had also held the stadtholderships of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht.

One, consisting of the commandoes from Utrecht and the Swaziland districts, had gathered at Vryheid on the flank of the British position at Dundee.

At the end of May Hildyard and Lyttelton were despatched in an eastern direction, as if there were an intention of turning the pass from Utrecht.

A man came in here searching for some seventeenth -century reproductions, and the 116 Dutch masters caught his eye, particularly the Ruysdael picture of the Crooked Rhine at Utrecht.

She felt a pleasant little thrill, unfcfrtunately doused by the arrival of a powerful-looking man with a fierce moustache who wrung Oliver's hand and, on being introduced as the Burgermeester of Utrecht, clasped hers and addressed her as 'little lady'--which, while not in the least appropriate, did much for her self-esteem.

He hung the walls and the ceiling with an extraordinary stuff which he had in the piece, and which he believed to be from Utrecht, a satin background with golden immortelles, and velevt auriculas.

This fact, which has been fully investigated for me with the greatest kindness by Professors Donders of Utrecht, throws, as we shall hereafter see, a flood of light on several of the most important expressions of the human countenance.

Toward the west, whence the Stadtholder would come, a gentle, undulating slope led down to Barneveld and Ede, Amersfoort and Utrecht.

The eldest son of John of Barneveld was awaiting final trial and inevitable condemnation, his brother Stoutenburg was a fugitive, and their accomplices Korenwinder, van Dyk, the redoubtable Slatius and others were giving away under torture the details of the aborted conspiracy against the life of Maurice of Nassau, Stadtholder of Holland, Gelderland, Utrecht, and Overyssel, Captain and Admiral-General of the State, Prince of Orange, and virtual ruler of Protestant and republican Netherlands.

Agnes, a monastery of Augustinian canons in the diocese of Utrecht.

Already the Stadtholder had gone with his numerous retinue, with his bodyguard and his pike-men and with his equerries, and those of the wedding-party who had come in his train from Utrecht, friends of Mynheer Beresteyn, who had ridden over for the most part with wife or daughter pillioned behind them, and all glad to avail themselves of the protection of his Highness's escort against highway marauders, none too scarce in these parts.

The province of Utrecht will be cleansed of Jews [as if they were cockroaches] between April 1 and May 1, and the provinces of North and South Holland between May 1 and June 1.