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Oost-Maarland

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Oost-Maarland is a village in the south east of the European country Netherlands. There it is an administrative population centre in the Eijsden-Margraten municipality, which forms part of the province of Limburg. In fact Oost-Maarland consists of two separate places with a different history. One is the village and former municipality of Oost, whereas the other is an in a distance of a few hundred metres separately to the southeast situated township called Maarland.

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Place details

Locality
Eijsden
Region
Limburg
Country
Nederland

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Instance of
village
Located in
Oost
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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
  • History
  • Place name
  • Culture
  • Folkloristic events around the civic guard
  • Folkloristic "Goose beheading" in Maarland
  • Economy
  • Nature
  • Environment
  • People
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

Oost-Maarland is a village in the south east of the European country Netherlands. There it is an administrative population centre in the Eijsden-Margraten municipality, which forms part of the province of Limburg. In fact Oost-Maarland consists of two separate places with a different history. One is the village and former municipality of Oost, whereas the other is an in a distance of a few hundred metres separately to the southeast situated township called Maarland.

Oost-Maarland is located some 3 km north of Eijsden, the biggest place in the municipality and south of Maastricht, the provincial capital. In its northeast it borders Rijckholt and in its east and southeast the Sint Geertruid part of the Savelsbos hillside forest, which is part of the "Margraten plateau". In the west it borders the Meuse river, across which marks the border with Belgium, specifically the Liège province of Wallonia.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oost-Maarland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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