Reusel is a village and former municipality in the south of 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 is one of the villages of the municipality

Reusel-De Mierden Reusel-De Mierden () is a municipality in the southern Netherlands. It is located in the North Brabant North Brabant ( nl, Noord-Brabant ; Brabantian: ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands. It bor ...

. The village is known on their village

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(Reusels), which is still spoken, and for the nature area Het Goor, which is also known as the Reuselse Moeren. Also the town is known for the large number of bars and shops. And the annual town fair (Reusel Kermis) is famous in the area. Reusel existed until 1997, when it merged with

Hooge en Lage Mierde Hooge en Lage Mierde was a municipality in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It included the villages of Lage Mierde, Hooge Mierde, and Hulsel. Hooge en Lage Mierde existed until 1997, when it merged with Reusel to form the new municipality ...

to form the new municipality of

Spurious location

Thousands of Dutch locations in family trees are spuriously identified as "Holland, Reusel-de Mierden, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands" despite having no connection to this small village. This is due to an error in popular genealogy software

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, which previously would match "

Holland Holland is a geographical regionG. Geerts & H. Heestermans, 1981, ''Groot Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal. Deel I'', Van Dale Lexicografie, Utrecht, p 1105 and former province on the western coast of the Netherlands. From the 10th to the 16th c ...

" to a narrow, 1.3 km road named "Het Holland" (The Woodland) located in Reusel, and automatically suggest this substitution. Long after the software error was corrected, these spurious locations have persisted in trees and have been uncritically copied.

Gallery

1867 Reusel.gif, Reusel in 1867 Reusel-Wegekker.jpg, Uitkijktoren De Nieuwe Brandtoren te Reusel.jpg, Uitkijktoren "De Nieuwe Brandtoren"

References

External links

* Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 1997 Former municipalities of North Brabant Populated places in North Brabant Reusel-De Mierden {{NorthBrabant-geo-stub