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Breda

City in North Brabant, the Netherlands, situated at the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa, 40 km/25 mi southwest of Hertogenbosch; population (1997) 156,400. Engineering, brewing, millinery, dyeing, woollen and linen textiles manufacture, and carpet production are the main industries. It was here that Charles II of England made the Declaration of Breda that paved the way for his restoration in 1660.

Breda was taken by Prince Maurice of Orange in 1590, by the Spaniards in 1625, and by the French in 1794-95. The city is associated with a number of significant historical treaties and declarations, including the Compromise of Breda in 1566 (treaty of alliance against the Inquisition), the Declaration of Breda in 1660 by Charles II of England, and the Treaty of Breda in 1667 between England, the Netherlands, France, and Denmark. Breda lies at the junction of several railway lines and is the seat of a Roman Catholic bishopric. The old castle is now a military academy. The Protestant Grote Kerk (Great Church) contains mausoleums of the counts of Nassau.



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