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Breda (brādä`), city (1994 pop. 129,125), North Brabant prov., S Netherlands, at the confluence of the Mark and Aa rivers. It is an industrial and transportation center. Manufactures include machinery, textiles, and canned foods. Breda was founded by the 11th cent. The city was successfully besieged (1624–25) by the Spaniards under Ambrogio Spinola Spinola, Ambrogio (ämbrô`jō spē`nōlä), 1569–1630, Spanish general, b. Italy, of a noble Genoese family. ..... Click the link for more information. ; the surrender of its heroic garrison is the subject of a famous painting by Velázquez Velázquez, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y (rôthrē`gāth th ..... Click the link for more information. . Points of interest in the city include a 13th-century Gothic church (Groote Kerk) and a castle (now a military academy). Breda a city in the S Netherlands, in North Brabant province: residence of Charles II of England during his exile. Pop.: 164 000 (2003 est.) |
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There was Terrence the Magnificent--descended, as Van Horn remembered, from the American-bred Milton Droleen, out of the Queen of County Antrim, Breda Muddler, which royal bitch, as every one who is familiar with the stud book knows, goes back as far as the almost mythical Spuds, with along the way no primrose dallyings with black- and-tan Killeney Boys and Welsh nondescripts. I had a tiny apartment in the Rue Breda, on the cinquieme: it wasn't at all respectable. |
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