Coevorden

Coevorden is a metropolis and municipality in the province of Drenthe, Netherlands. During the 1998 municipal reorganisation within the province, Coevorden merged with Dalen, Sleen, Oosterhesselen and Zweeloo, retaining its call. In August 2017, it had a populace of 35,267. Coevorden obtained town rights in 1408. It is the oldest town inside the province of Drenthe. The town turned into captured from the Spanish in 1592 by a Dutch and English pressure beneath the command of Maurice, Prince of Orange. The following year it was besieged by means of a Spanish pressure however the town held out until its relief in May 1594.

Coevorden was then reconstructed inside the early seventeenth century to an excellent town design, much like Palmanova. The streets were specified in a radial sample inside polygonal fortifications and sizable outer earthworks. The city of Coevorden may additionally have circuitously given its name to the metropolis of Vancouver, which is named after the 18th-century British explorer George Vancouver. The explorer's ancestors may additionally have at first come to England "from Coevorden".