Het Sas () is a hamlet in the municipality

Alphen-Chaam Alphen-Chaam () is a municipality in the southern Netherlands. Population centres Towns: * Alphen (4,000) * Chaam (3,810) * Galder (1,190) Hamlets (the population data of these hamlets is included in the population data of the towns near whic ...

in the

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province of

North Brabant North Brabant ( ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, Dutch Brabant or Hollandic 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 ...

. It is located southwest of Alphen. Het Sas is not a statistical entity, and the postal authorities have placed it under Alphen. It was first mentioned in 1838 as Het Sas, and means

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in the river Leije. The hamlet consists of about 15 houses. Het Sas 1899

References

Populated places in North Brabant Alphen-Chaam {{NorthBrabant-geo-stub