Acquoy
Sign in to saveAcquoy () is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is a part of the municipality of West Betuwe, and lies about east of Gorinchem.
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Place details
- Locality
- Acquoy
- Region
- Gelderland
- Country
- Nederland
- Population
- 590
- Timezone
- Europe/Amsterdam
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Key facts
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- Acquoy
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
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- Panorama of Acquoy
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Netherlands
- Located in
- West Betuwe
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Image
- Acquoy from access road.jpg
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Acquoy () is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is a part of the municipality of West Betuwe, and lies about east of Gorinchem.
According to popular legend a "Jan van Arkel" was the first to have settled the village of Acquoy, when he returned from the crusades in 1133. However, this is highly unlikely, because there were no crusades in the period around 1133. The first crusade was from 1096–99 and the second one was from 1147-49. Some sources report that the Jan van Arkel mentioned was in fact Jan I van Arkel. However, he lived a century later and had the nickname "de Sterke", which means "the strong".