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West Betuwe
West Betuwe
is a
municipality
in the
Dutch province
of
Gelderland
.
The municipality was formed on
January 1
, 2019, by the merger of the municipalities
Geldermalsen
,
Neerijnen
,
Lingewaal
.
Topography
Notable people
Dirk Willems
a
Dutch
martyred
Anabaptist
Cornelius Jansen
the Catholic
Bishop of Ypres
,
father of
Jansenism
Willem Jacob van de Graaf
the 35th
Governor of Ceylon
Johannes, Count van den Bosch
an officer and politician;
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
1830–1833
Jan Karel van den Broek
a physician based at Nagasaki, in
Bakumatsu
Syb Talma
a Dutch politician
Gys van Beek
a Dutch-American inventor and member of the
Dutch resistance
Otto Willem Arnold baron van Verschuer
a Dutch politician
Joop Puntman
a Dutch ceramist and sculptor
Thomas van Aalten
a Dutch writer
Sport
Jan Kleyn
a sprinter, competed at the
1948 Summer Olympics
Hendrik Pieter de Jongh
a
football manager
and former
player
Léon van Bon
a retired
road racing cyclist
, silver medallist at the
1992 Summer Olympics
Erwin van de Looi
a
Dutch football
manager
of the
Netherlands national under-21 football team
and former player with 214 club caps
Stijn Schaars
a Dutch former
professional footballer
with 315 club caps
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