Rijswijk (North Brabant)

Rijswijk (North Brabant)

Rijswijk is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the municipality of Woudrichem, about 5 km southeast of Gorinchem.It has about 1,720 inhabitants.

Rijswijk was a separate municipality until 1973, when it became part of Woudrichem. [Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. [http://www.knaw.nl/cfdata/publicaties/detail.cfm?boeken__ordernr=20061061] ]

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External links

* [http://www.kuijsten.de/atlas/nb/rijswijk.html Map of the former municipality in 1868]


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