Breda (nld)

Breda

Breda ranks 1,032nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Enfield, London, Pensacola, Florida, and Kristiansand. The most famous people from Breda are Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Colonel Tom Parker, and Corry Brokken. The most famous people who died in Breda are Anna van Egmont, Kees Rijvers, and Pierre Kartner. Breda has been the birth place of many soccer players, and musicians and the death place of many politicians, and soccer players. Breda is located in Netherlands.

Breda is a city and municipality in the southern part of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Brabant. The name derived from brede Aa and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. Breda has 185,072 inhabitants on 13 September 2022 and is part of the Brabantse Stedenrij; it is the tenth largest city/municipality in the country, and the third largest in North Brabant after Eindhoven and Tilburg. It is equidistant from Rotterdam and Antwerp. Read more on Wikipedia