''Het Belang van Limburg'' (
Dutch
Dutch commonly refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
* Dutch people ()
* Dutch language ()
Dutch may also refer to:
Places
* Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States
* Pennsylvania Dutch Country
People E ...
; literally ''The Interest of Limburg'') is a
Dutch language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic language spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language. It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-Europea ...
regional newspaper in
Belgium
Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...
.
History and profile
''Het Belang van Limburg'' was founded in 1933 as a merger of several weekly magazines. The paper is owned and published by Concentra.
[ It is published in ]tabloid format
A tabloid is a newspaper with a compact page size smaller than broadsheet. There is no standard size for this newspaper format.
Etymology
The word ''tabloid'' comes from the name given by the London-based pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wel ...
as its sister newspaper '' Gazet van Antwerpen''.
The circulation of ''Het Belang van Limburg'' in 2002 was 114,469 copies. Next year it had a circulation of 103,000 copies.
References
External links
Official Website
Newspapers in the class room
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1933 establishments in Belgium
Dutch-language newspapers published in Belgium
Publications established in 1933
Het Belang van Limburg