Baarle Nassau

Baarle Nassau is a Dutch municipality in the province of Noord Brabant, about 15 kilometers south of Tilburg. The municipality has 6,848 inhabitants and has an area of ​​76.36 km². In 2006, 174 residents of Baarle Nassau had the Belgian nationality. Baarle Nassau, together with the Belgian municipality of Baarle Hertog, bureaucracy the Kempen village of Baarle.

The territory of the 2 municipalities, particularly in the middle of Baarle, could be very harassed. There are 22 exclaves from Baarle Hertog in Baarle Nassau and eight exclaves from Baarle Nassau in Baarle-Hertog. A variety of these Dutch exclaves in turn represent enclaves inside the Belgian enclaves inside the Netherlands counterclaves or enclaves of the second order, similar to Nahwa and a few 28 of the Cooch Hairclaves. In 1403 the German Count Engelbrecht I of Nassau-Dillenburg marries Johanna van Polanen, the daughter of the Lord of Breda Jan III of Polanen. Under the then regulation, he became Lord of Breda. With him, the call of Nassau now not handiest ends up inside the Dutch Royal Family, but the call is likewise given to the Dutch territories of Baarle. All Baarle territory outside the Duke enclaves belong to Baarle Nassau because that point.