Limburg
On 31 December 1974, the miners of the Oranje-Nassau I in Heerlen mined the last lump of Dutch coal, half a century ago.
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The southernmost of the twelve provinces of the Netherlands is also known as Dutch Limburg. The western boundary forms the border with Belgium and the Belgian province of Limburg.
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Limburg
Organisation Todt, Nazi Germany's construction company, sent an army of forced labourers to an old marl quarry in the Netherlands in the spring of 1944 to convert it into an aircraft engine maintenance site.
Limburg
An ultra-secret NATO command centre was hidden in the belly of Cannerberg during the Cold War.
Limburg
Until 1991, freight trains rumbled via the Iron Rhine - also called the Steel Rhine - from the Belgian port of Antwerp to the German Ruhr area.
Limburg
Just under a hundred years after ENCI started extracting limestone from the Sint-Pietersberg, the quarry is being returned to nature.
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