Drongelen, Haagoort, Gansoijen en Doeveren (or "Drongelen c.a.") is a former municipality in the
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province of
North Brabant
North Brabant ( nl, Noord-Brabant ; Brabantian: ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands. It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north, Limburg to the east, Zeeland to the we ...
. It included the villages of
Drongelen and
Doeveren, and the two former hamlets
Hagoort and
Gansoijen.
The two hamlets Hagoort and Gansoijen were destroyed in the construction of the
Bergsche Maas canal in 1904. The municipality changed its name to just "Drongelen" in 1908.
[Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. ]
References
External links
Map of the former municipality in 1868
Former municipalities of North Brabant
Geography of Altena, North Brabant
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