Aalten - Definition and Overview

Aalten is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands. The former municipality of Dinxperlo has been merged with Aalten on January 1, 2005.

Population centres

Aalten, Barlo, Bredevoort, Dale, Dinxperlo, Haart, Heurne, IJzerlo, 't Klooster and Lintelo.

Bredevoort

Bredevoort is a small town of about 1600 inhabitants, between Aalten and Winterswijk.

Since 1993, Bredevoort presents itself as Bredevoort boekenstad (Bredevoort book town), after the examples of Hay-on-Wye in Wales and Redu in Belgium. There are now more than twenty second-hand book shops in the town.

External links

• Official Website (http://www.aalten.nl)
• Map (http://www.plattegronden.nl/gemeenteaalten/)
• Bredevoort booktown (http://www.bredevoort-boekenstad.nl/uk/index_uk.htm)

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Province Gelderland

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