Misspelled place names are not uncommon. However, it should be expected that official authorities give places the correct names. Yet, things can sometimes go wrong. This was also the case in Zuidbarge, a village near Emmen in the province of Drenthe....
For once, not a lost place name, but a lost province! On May 1, 1873, an auxiliary post office was established in Alem, belonging to the jurisdiction of the 's-Hertogenbosch post office. The postmaster was provided with an office name stamp. Only more than twelve years...
Nowadays, every resident of Nijmegen knows the Neerbosch district. The village of Neerbosch originated in the 13th century after the draining of the swamps west of Nijmegen. The small village was named 'in den Nederen Bosche' and later became an independent municipality....
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