- Empel
Empel is a town in the Dutch province of
North Brabant . It is located in the municipality of's-Hertogenbosch .Empel was a separate municipality until 1971, when it was merged with 's-Hertogenbosch. The complete name of the municipality was Empel en Meerwijk. [Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. [http://www.knaw.nl/cfdata/publicaties/detail.cfm?boeken__ordernr=20061061] ]
Points of interest
Empel was the ancient site of a temple to "Hercules Magusanus". This was the Latin name of the supreme god of the
Batavians . Stone votives and broken weapons as symbolic offerings are at the location. ["Empel, The sanctuary of Magusanus..." [http://www.livius.org/ga-gh/germania/empel.html] . File retrieved 10-02-07.] Roman ruins are in the region.References
External links
* [http://www.livius.org/ga-gh/germania/empel.html Empel, The Sanctuary of Magusanus..."]
* [http://www.kuijsten.de/atlas/nb/empel.html Map of the former municipality in 1868]
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