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Nijmegen

Oldest city of the Netherlands: Roman city rights in 98, Charlemagne's palace, and the bridge of Market Garden.

Dated events and their evidence

• 19 BCE mainstream
  the Kops Plateau legionary camp — the oldest Roman military presence in the Netherlands source
• 98 CE mainstream
  first settlement in the present Netherlands to receive Roman city rights; renamed Ulpia Noviomagus in 104 source
• 777 CE mainstream
  Charlemagne keeps his palatium here source
• 1230 CE mainstream
  Frederick II grants free imperial city rights source
• 1944 CE mainstream
  American planes bomb the centre by mistake on 22 February; over 750 dead source
• 1944 CE mainstream
  the bridges taken in Operation Market Garden (September) source

Where

51.8475° N, 5.8625° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Germanic_Limes
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nijmegen
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Nijmegen
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Market_Garden

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