Nijmegen is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and tenth largest of the Netherlands as a whole, located on the Waal river close to the German border.
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15 Facts About Nijmegen
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Nijmegen became a free imperial city in 1230 and in 1402 a Hanseatic city.
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In 98, Nijmegen was the first of two settlements in what is the Kingdom of the Netherlands to receive Roman city rights.
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In 1678 Nijmegen was host to the negotiations between the European powers that aimed to put an end to the constant warfare that had ravaged the continent for years.
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In 1923 the current Radboud University Nijmegen was founded and in 1927 a channel was dug between the Waal and Meuse rivers.
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In 1940, the Netherlands was invaded by Germany, with Nijmegen being the first Dutch city to fall into German hands.
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On 22 February 1944, Nijmegen was heavily bombed by American planes, causing great damage to the city centre.
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The objective of the Battle of Nijmegen was mainly to prevent the Germans from destroying the bridges.
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Nijmegen was liberated from German occupation by the British Grenadier Guards of the Guards Armoured Division, as well as elements of the American 82nd Airborne Division in September 1944.
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At times Nijmegen has been the only major city in the Netherlands with a solely left-wing government.
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In November 2005, the city centre of Nijmegen was the site of the assassination of political activist Louis Seveke by a former activist, Marcel Teunissen, who was arrested in 2007 in Spain and extradited to the Netherlands.
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Nijmegen committed his acts out of revenge for a forcible eviction from the squatter scene by Louis Seveke.
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In 1968, theologians in the Catholic Church issued what is known as the Nijmegen Statement, demanding sweeping reforms in the Vatican's Holy Office, previously known as The Inquisition, and calling for greater scope for theological inquiry.
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Nijmegen Statement said: "Any form of Inquisition however subtle, not only harms the development of sound theology, it causes irreparable damage to the credibility of the church".
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Nijmegen is an important centre of Psycholinguistics, home to the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics and the F C Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging.
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