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Baarle-Nassau

Baarle-Nassau
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About Baarle-Nassau

Baarle-Nassau is a municipality and town in the southern Netherlands, located in the province of North Brabant. The town is the site of a complicated borderline between Belgium and the Netherlands: it encloses 22 small exclaves of the Belgian town Baarle-Hertog, of which the two largest contain seven counter-enclaves of Baarle-Nassau, and the main body of Belgium contains another.

On the show · 3 mentions total

That's why you've got two places, one's called Baal-Hertog and one's called Baal-Nassau. The Baal-Hertog comes from the Dutch word meaning duke. The Nassau comes from the house of Nassau, which was the aristocratic house which ruled Brabant at that time.

from 291: No Such Thing As A Quintruple-Cooked Chip, 2019-10-18 at 00:21:35 · read transcript

Other times Baarle-Nassau came up

  1. There's an electrical socket. There's some broken handcuffs. There's a steering wheel. Broken handcuffs does not say to me, tough on crime. That says major cuts in crime. The Kenyan election is between Ahuru and Nassau. NASA. NASA? What, the American Space Agency? No, the National Super Alliance Party. It's President Ahuru Kaniata, and everyone else has kind of ganged together with a coalition to go against him.

    No Such Thing As Lord Cauldronhead, 2017-06-09 · listen

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Coordinates: 51.4500, 4.9333

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