Voorburg (nld)

Voorburg

Voorburg ranks 3,791st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Colfax, Washington, Awa, Tokushima, and Clamecy, Nièvre. Memorable people born in Voorburg include Gerben Karstens, Peter Blangé, and Dylan van Baarle. Memorable people who died in Voorburg include Jan Wils. Voorburg has been the birth place of many cyclists, and volleyball players and the death place of many architects. Voorburg is located in Netherlands.

Voorburg is a town and former municipality in the west part of the province of South Holland, Netherlands. Together with Leidschendam and Stompwijk, it makes up the municipality Leidschendam-Voorburg. It has a population of about 39,000 people. It is considered to be the oldest city in The Netherlands and celebrated its 2000th year of existence in 1988. However in medieval Holland the status of 'city' normally commenced with the bestowing of a 'city charter' by its sovereign leader(s) and none available is that old. Human occupation has certainly been established as occurring two millennia ago, where Voorburg is located now. In 2002, the cities of Leidschendam and Voorburg were merged under the new municipality named "Leidschendam-Voorburg". Situated adjacent to the city of The Hague, it is often regarded as one of its suburbs. Read more on Wikipedia