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It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...</div><br></span> and a <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("95672",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("95672")' href="/topics/Town">town</a><span class="hp" id="m95672"><div class="hpHeader">Town</div><div class="hpContent">A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...</div><br></span> in <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("71614",this,"limburg_(netherlands).gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("71614")' href="/topics/Limburg_(Netherlands)">Limburg</a><span class="hp" id="m71614"><div class="hpHeader">Limburg (Netherlands)</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i71614"></div>Limburg is the southernmost of the twelve provinces of the Netherlands. It is located in the southeastern part of the country and bordered by the province of Gelderland to the north, Germany to the east, Belgium to the south and part of the west, andthe Dutch province of North Brabant partly to...</div><br></span>, <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("22243",this,"netherlands.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("22243")' href="/topics/Netherlands">Netherlands</a><span class="hp" id="m22243"><div class="hpHeader">Netherlands</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i22243"></div>The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...</div><br></span>, 115 kilometers southeast of <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("72871",this,"amsterdam.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("72871")' href="/topics/Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a><span class="hp" id="m72871"><div class="hpHeader">Amsterdam</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i72871"></div>Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...</div><br></span>. Venray has about 43,000 inhabitants.<br /> <H2> Population centres </H2> <a href="/topics/Blitterswijck" class="greylink1">Blitterswijck</a>, <a href="/topics/Castenray" class="greylink1">Castenray</a>, Geijsteren, <a href="/topics/Heide_(Venray)" class="greylink1">Heide</a>, Leunen, Merselo, Oirlo, Oostrum, Smakt, Venray, Veulen, <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("81668",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("81668")' href="/topics/Vredepeel">Vredepeel</a><span class="hp" id="m81668"><div class="hpHeader">Vredepeel</div><div class="hpContent">Vredepeel is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is home to a military base and has a population of 270....</div><br></span>, <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("32297",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("32297")' href="/topics/Wanssum">Wanssum</a><span class="hp" id="m32297"><div class="hpHeader">Wanssum</div><div class="hpContent">Wanssum is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is located in the municipality of Venray.Wanssum was a separate municipality until 1969, when it merged with Meerlo.-External links:*...</div><br></span> and <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("82925",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("82925")' href="/topics/Ysselsteyn">Ysselsteyn</a><span class="hp" id="m82925"><div class="hpHeader">Ysselsteyn</div><div class="hpContent">Ysselsteyn is a small village in the municipality of Venray in Limburg, Netherlands. It was established in 1921 and named after its designer, Hendrik Albert van IJsselsteyn, then Minister of Agriculture....</div><br></span><br /> <H2> Born in Venray </H2> <ul> <li> Yorick Bierstekers (*1975), Musicproducer and Deejay</li> <li> <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("9497",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("9497")' href="/topics/Mark_Veens">Mark Veens</a><span class="hp" id="m9497"><div class="hpHeader">Mark Veens</div><div class="hpContent">Mark Hermanus Maria Veens is a freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for his native country at three consequentive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia as a member of the 4脳100 m freestyle .Veens' finest hour came at the European Short Course Swimming...</div><br></span> (*1978), Freestyle swimmer</li> <li> <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("85439",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("85439")' href="/topics/Edward_Linskens">Edward Linskens</a><span class="hp" id="m85439"><div class="hpHeader">Edward Linskens</div><div class="hpContent">Edward Linskens is a retired Dutch footballer who played as a defensive midfielder, namely for PSV.-Football career:During his career, Linskens played for PSV Eindhoven, NAC Breda, K.S.C...</div><br></span> (*1968), Soccer player</li> <li> <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("36067",this,"peter_winnen.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("36067")' href="/topics/Peter_Winnen">Peter Winnen</a><span class="hp" id="m36067"><div class="hpHeader">Peter Winnen</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i36067"></div>Peter Johannes Gertrudis Winnen is a Dutch former road racing cyclist. He was professional from 1980 until 1991. Among his 14 victories were two stages at Alpe d'Huez in the Tour de France and a national championship. He came third in the Tour de France in 1983.-Results:1981...</div><br></span> (*1957), Cyclist, winner of Alp d'Huez</li> <li> <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("12010",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("12010")' href="/topics/Michelle_Courtens">Michelle Courtens</a><span class="hp" id="m12010"><div class="hpHeader">Michelle Courtens</div><div class="hpContent">Michelle Courtens , performing as Michelle, is a Dutch singer, who is known from her performance in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001.She was born in Venray, The Netherlands....</div><br></span> (*1981), Singer</li> <li> Koen Heldens (*1986), Audio engineer</li> <li> <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("13267",this,"gerard_verschuuren.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("13267")' href="/topics/Gerard_Verschuuren">Gerard Verschuuren</a><span class="hp" id="m13267"><div class="hpHeader">Gerard Verschuuren</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i13267"></div>Gerard M. Verschuuren is a writer, speaker, and consultant, working at the interface of science, philosophy, and religion. He is a human geneticist who also earned a doctorate in the philosophy of science, and studied and worked at universities in Europe and the United States...</div><br></span> (*1946), Human Geneticist and Philosopher</li> <li>Koen "Trystys" Verstralen (*1985), Musician, ex live guitarist of symphonic black metal band Carach Angren and ex singer of thrash metal formation Anxiety, currently playing bass in death metal band Erebus, hailing from Kampen</li></ul> <br /> <H2> Mental Hospitals </H2> In 1905, the Sint Servatius mental hospital for males was built by the <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("90466",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("90466")' href="/topics/Brothers_of_Charity">Brothers of Charity</a><span class="hp" id="m90466"><div class="hpHeader">Brothers of Charity</div><div class="hpContent">The Brothers of Charity are a Catholic institute of religious brothers and associate members at the service of the people most in need in the field of education and health care. The institute was founded in 1807 by Canon Peter Joseph Triest in Ghent, Belgium, who also founded three other religious...</div><br></span>. The first patients arrived in 1907. In 1906, the Sint Anna mental hospital for women was built by the <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("91722",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("91722")' href="/topics/Sisters_of_Charity_of_Jesus_and_Mary">Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary</a><span class="hp" id="m91722"><div class="hpHeader">Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary</div><div class="hpContent">The Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary is a Roman Catholic religious order founded in Ghent, Belgium on November 4, 1803 by Father Peter Joseph Triest, the parish priest of Lovendegem that time. Father Peter recruited a group of young women, from which the co-foundress Mother...</div><br></span>. The first patients arrived in 1909. In 1969, management of the mental hospitals was transferred to two separate foundations. Both mental hospitals have had a big impact on Venray from cultural, religious and employment perspectives that lasts up to today. Nowadays, both mental hospitals are managed by GGZ Noord- en Midden-Limburg.<br /> <br /> Venray also hosts one of 12 mental hospitals in the Netherlands, De Rooyse Wissel, that house people assigned to mental treatment as a measure by the courts.<br /> <H2> St. Peter ad Vincula Church </H2> The <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("44865",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("44865")' href="/topics/Liberation_of_Saint_Peter">St. Peter ad Vincula</a><span class="hp" id="m44865"><div class="hpHeader">Liberation of Saint Peter</div><div class="hpContent">The Liberation of Saint Peter is a story told in the Acts of the Apostles in which Saint Peter is rescued from prison by an angel. Although described in a short textual passage, the tale has given rise to theological discussions and has been the subject of a number of artworks.-Biblical...</div><br></span> church in Venray hosts one of the largest late medieval collections of wooden <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("20807",this,"sculpture.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("20807")' href="/topics/Sculpture">sculpture</a><span class="hp" id="m20807"><div class="hpHeader">Sculpture</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i20807"></div>Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials鈥攖ypically stone such as marble鈥攐r metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...</div><br></span>s that survived the <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("71435",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("71435")' href="/topics/Iconoclasm">iconoclasm</a><span class="hp" id="m71435"><div class="hpHeader">Iconoclasm</div><div class="hpContent">Iconoclasm is the deliberate destruction of religious icons and other symbols or monuments, usually with religious or political motives. It is a frequent component of major political or religious changes...</div><br></span> of the <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("47378",this,"protestant_reformation.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("47378")' href="/topics/Protestant_Reformation">protestant reformation</a><span class="hp" id="m47378"><div class="hpHeader">Protestant Reformation</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i47378"></div>The Protestant Reformation was a 16th-century split within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin and other early Protestants. The efforts of the self-described "reformers", who objected to the doctrines, rituals and ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Catholic Church, led...</div><br></span> in the Netherlands. The church itself was originally built in the 15th century in the <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("98006",this,"gothic_architecture.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("98006")' href="/topics/Gothic_architecture">gothic</a><span class="hp" id="m98006"><div class="hpHeader">Gothic architecture</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i98006"></div>Gothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture....</div><br></span> style. It was rebuilt after extensive damage following the <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("48635",this,"world_war_ii.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("48635")' href="/topics/World_War_II">World War II</a><span class="hp" id="m48635"><div class="hpHeader">World War II</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i48635"></div>World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations鈥攊ncluding all of the great powers鈥攅ventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...</div><br></span> <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("73949",this,"battle_of_overloon.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("73949")' href="/topics/Battle_of_Overloon">Battle of Overloon</a><span class="hp" id="m73949"><div class="hpHeader">Battle of Overloon</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i73949"></div>The Battle of Overloon was a Second World War battle between Allied forces and the German army which took place in and around the village of Overloon in the south-east of the Netherlands between 30 September and 18 October 1944. The battle, which resulted in an Allied victory, ensued after the...</div><br></span>.<br /> <H2> Ysselsteyn German War Cemetery </H2> <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("49892",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("49892")' href="/topics/Ysselsteyn">Ysselsteyn</a><span class="hp" id="m49892"><div class="hpHeader">Ysselsteyn</div><div class="hpContent">Ysselsteyn is a small village in the municipality of Venray in Limburg, Netherlands. It was established in 1921 and named after its designer, Hendrik Albert van IJsselsteyn, then Minister of Agriculture....</div><br></span> hosts the only German war cemetery in the Netherlands, administered by the <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("520",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("520")' href="/topics/German_War_Graves_Commission">German War Graves Commission</a><span class="hp" id="m520"><div class="hpHeader">German War Graves Commission</div><div class="hpContent">The German War Graves Commission is responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of German war graves in Europe and North Africa...</div><br></span>.<br /> Venray also hosts a <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("51148",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("51148")' href="/topics/World_War_II_memorials_and_cemeteries_in_the_Netherlands">Commonwealth War Grave</a><span class="hp" id="m51148"><div class="hpHeader">World War II memorials and cemeteries in the Netherlands</div><div class="hpContent">-Dutch war graves:In the Netherlands, about 9,000 war graves are located.* Field of Honour Loenen - 4,000 soldiers and civilians* Field of Honour Grebbeberg - 800 soldiers...</div><br></span>.<br /> <H2> Economy </H2> <ul> <li>Inalfa: Venray hosts the head-office and a <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("1777",this,"manufacturing.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("1777")' href="/topics/Manufacturing">manufacturing</a><span class="hp" id="m1777"><div class="hpHeader">Manufacturing</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i1777"></div>Manufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...</div><br></span> plant of Inalfa, a supplier of car roofs to the <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("54919",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("54919")' href="/topics/Automotive_industry">automotive industry</a><span class="hp" id="m54919"><div class="hpHeader">Automotive industry</div><div class="hpContent">The automotive industry designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells motor vehicles, and is one of the world's most important economic sectors by revenue....</div><br></span>.</li> <li>Flextronics: Venray hosts <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("56175",this,"manufacturing.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("56175")' href="/topics/Manufacturing">manufacturing</a><span class="hp" id="m56175"><div class="hpHeader">Manufacturing</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i56175"></div>Manufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...</div><br></span> units and <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("33375",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("33375")' href="/topics/Logistics_center">logistics center</a><span class="hp" id="m33375"><div class="hpHeader">Logistics center</div><div class="hpContent">A logistics center is a facility dedicated to logistical operations. A logistics center might be a warehouse, freight forwarder, or a repair depot....</div><br></span>s for <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("9318",this,"flextronics.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("9318")' href="/topics/Flextronics">Flextronics</a><span class="hp" id="m9318"><div class="hpHeader">Flextronics</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i9318"></div>Flextronics International Ltd. is an electronics manufacturing services provider that offers services to original equipment manufacturers . It also provides supporting supply chain services, including packaging and transportation throughout the world, as well as design and after-sales...</div><br></span></li> <li>Herbalife: Venray hosts a European <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("59946",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("59946")' href="/topics/Logistics_center">logistics center</a><span class="hp" id="m59946"><div class="hpHeader">Logistics center</div><div class="hpContent">A logistics center is a facility dedicated to logistical operations. A logistics center might be a warehouse, freight forwarder, or a repair depot....</div><br></span> for <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("10574",this,"herbalife.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("10574")' href="/topics/Herbalife">Herbalife</a><span class="hp" id="m10574"><div class="hpHeader">Herbalife</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i10574"></div>Herbalife International is a global nutrition, weight-loss and skin-care company. The company was founded in 1980 and it employs around 4,000 people worldwide. Herbalife reported net sales of USD 2.7 billion in 2010...</div><br></span>.</li> <li>OTTO Work Force: Venray hosts the head-office for OTTO Work Force, a temp agency that predominantly provides <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("40915",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("40915")' href="/topics/Poles">Polish</a><span class="hp" id="m40915"><div class="hpHeader">Poles</div><div class="hpContent">thumb|right|180px|The state flag of [[Poland]] as used by Polish government and diplomatic authoritiesThe Polish people, or Poles , are a nation indigenous to Poland. They are united by the Polish language, which belongs to the historical Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages of Central Europe...</div><br></span> <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("42172",this,"expatriate.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("42172")' href="/topics/Expatriate">expatriate</a><span class="hp" id="m42172"><div class="hpHeader">Expatriate</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i42172"></div>An expatriate is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing...</div><br></span> workers.</li> <li>Xerox: Venray used to host a <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("18115",this,"manufacturing.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("18115")' href="/topics/Manufacturing">manufacturing</a><span class="hp" id="m18115"><div class="hpHeader">Manufacturing</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i18115"></div>Manufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...</div><br></span> plant and European <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("68743",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("68743")' href="/topics/Logistics_center">logistics center</a><span class="hp" id="m68743"><div class="hpHeader">Logistics center</div><div class="hpContent">A logistics center is a facility dedicated to logistical operations. A logistics center might be a warehouse, freight forwarder, or a repair depot....</div><br></span> for <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("44686",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("44686")' href="/topics/Rank_Xerox">Rank Xerox</a><span class="hp" id="m44686"><div class="hpHeader">Rank Xerox</div><div class="hpContent">Rank Xerox was formed in 1956 as a joint venture between the Xerox Corporation of U.S. and the Rank Organisation of UK, to manufacture and market Xerox equipment initially in Europe and later in Africa and Asia...</div><br></span>, later <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("45942",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("45942")' href="/topics/Xerox">Xerox</a><span class="hp" id="m45942"><div class="hpHeader">Xerox</div><div class="hpContent">Xerox Corporation is an American multinational document management corporation that produced and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies...</div><br></span>. Nowadays, the European <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("96570",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("96570")' href="/topics/Logistics_center">logistics center</a><span class="hp" id="m96570"><div class="hpHeader">Logistics center</div><div class="hpContent">A logistics center is a facility dedicated to logistical operations. A logistics center might be a warehouse, freight forwarder, or a repair depot....</div><br></span> remains. In the 1990s Xerox outsourced manufacturing to <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("97827",this,"flextronics.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("97827")' href="/topics/Flextronics">Flextronics</a><span class="hp" id="m97827"><div class="hpHeader">Flextronics</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i97827"></div>Flextronics International Ltd. is an electronics manufacturing services provider that offers services to original equipment manufacturers . It also provides supporting supply chain services, including packaging and transportation throughout the world, as well as design and after-sales...</div><br></span>.</li> <li><a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("48456",this,"royal_netherlands_air_force.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("48456")' href="/topics/Royal_Netherlands_Air_Force">Royal Netherlands Air Force</a><span class="hp" id="m48456"><div class="hpHeader">Royal Netherlands Air Force</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i48456"></div>The Royal Netherlands Air Force , Dutch Koninklijke Luchtmacht , is the military aviation branch of the Netherlands Armed Forces. Its ancestor, the Luchtvaartafdeling of the Dutch Army was founded on 1 July 1913, with four pilots...</div><br></span>: Venray houses <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("24399",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("24399")' href="/topics/De_Peel_Air_Base">De Peel Air Base</a><span class="hp" id="m24399"><div class="hpHeader">De Peel Air Base</div><div class="hpContent">De Peel air base is a military air base in the Netherlands used by the Royal Netherlands Air Force guided missile division...</div><br></span>.</li></ul> <br /> <br /> In recent decades Venray has made a transition from a <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("341",this,"manufacturing.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("341")' href="/topics/Manufacturing">manufacturing</a><span class="hp" id="m341"><div class="hpHeader">Manufacturing</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i341"></div>Manufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...</div><br></span> base to a third-party logistics base. As a consequence many warehouses have been built on <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("53483",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("53483")' href="/topics/Industrial_park">industrial</a><span class="hp" id="m53483"><div class="hpHeader">Industrial park</div><div class="hpContent">An industrial park is an area zoned and planned for the purpose of industrial development...</div><br></span> estates in recent years.<br /> <br /> Small and medium enterprises and mental healthcare also continue to play an important role in the local economy. Venray also provides <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("81310",this,"logistics.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("81310")' href="/topics/Logistics">logistics</a><span class="hp" id="m81310"><div class="hpHeader">Logistics</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i81310"></div>Logistics is the management of the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of destination in order to meet the requirements of customers or corporations. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and...</div><br></span> through its Meuse river harbor in <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("7882",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("7882")' href="/topics/Wanssum">Wanssum</a><span class="hp" id="m7882"><div class="hpHeader">Wanssum</div><div class="hpContent">Wanssum is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is located in the municipality of Venray.Wanssum was a separate municipality until 1969, when it merged with Meerlo.-External links:*...</div><br></span> and A73 motorway.<br /> <H2> Nature </H2> The western section of Venray, the villages Vredepeel and Ysselsteyn, was reclaimed from the <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("9139",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("9139")' href="/topics/Peel,_Netherlands">Peel</a><span class="hp" id="m9139"><div class="hpHeader">Peel, Netherlands</div><div class="hpContent">thumb|250px|A peat lake near [[Griendtsveen]].thumb|250px|A barn roof with vegetation typical of the region.De Peel is a region in the Southeast of the Netherlands that straddles the border between the provinces of North Brabant and Limburg....</div><br></span> peat bogs in the early 20th century. Parts of the peat bogs remain and have been transferred to a national park. The western section of Venray is also straddled by part of the <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("59766",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("59766")' href="/topics/Peel-Raam_Line">Peel-Raam Line</a><span class="hp" id="m59766"><div class="hpHeader">Peel-Raam Line</div><div class="hpContent">thumb|right|230px|Peel-Raam LineThe Peel-Raam Line was a Dutch defence line built in 1939 and attacked and conquered on 10 May 1940 by the German forces....</div><br></span>, defensive works consisting out of a canal and bunkers dating to the <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("61023",this,"world_war_ii.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("61023")' href="/topics/World_War_II">World War II</a><span class="hp" id="m61023"><div class="hpHeader">World War II</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i61023"></div>World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations鈥攊ncluding all of the great powers鈥攅ventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...</div><br></span> period.<br /> <br /> Venray, near Geijsteren, also has a forest and sand dune area, that is one of the few locations in the Netherlands that is home to <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("86337",this,"juniperus_communis.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("86337")' href="/topics/Juniperus_communis">common juniper</a><span class="hp" id="m86337"><div class="hpHeader">Juniperus communis</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i86337"></div>Juniperus communis, the Common Juniper, is a species in the genus Juniperus, in the family Cupressaceae. It has the largest range of any woody plant, throughout the cool temperate Northern Hemisphere from the Arctic south in mountains to around 30掳N latitude in North America, Europe and Asia.-...</div><br></span>.<br /> <H2>External links</H2> <ul> <li><a rel='nofollow' class='greylink1' href="http://www.venray.nl/">Official website</a></li></ul> <div class="article-reference">The source of this article is <a class='greylink1' href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venray">wikipedia</a>, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the <a class='greylink1' href='/gfdl'>GFDL</a>.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="footer"> <a href="http://www.silverdaleinteractive.com/">Silverdale Interactive</a> 漏 2025. 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