Sevenum

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Country	Netherlands
Sevenum

Province	Limburg
Area (2006)
- Municipality	48.66 km² (18.8 sq mi)
- Land	47.97 km² (18.5 sq mi)
- Water	0.69 km² (0.3 sq mi)
Population (1 January 2007)
- Municipality	7,624
- Density	159/km² (411.8/sq mi)
	Source: CBS, Statline.
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)

Sevenum (pronunciation (help·info)) is a Dutch municipality and a town in the province Limburg in the southeastern Netherlands.

The centre of Sevenum (town).

[edit] Location

Sevenum's neighbour towns are (clockwise, starting from East): Venlo, Maasbree, Helden-Panningen, Deurne, Horst.

The municipality Sevenum includes these towns:

Sevenum
Kronenberg
Evertsoord

Sevenum-town and Kronenberg are tangented by highway E34, provincial road N277 (Middenpeelweg), and the railroad track Eindhoven-Venlo; Evertsoord lies to the west of the N277, on the edge of the Peel, a former peatland.

[edit] Dialect

Kleverlandish

Sevenum's dialect, "Zaerems", is transitional between Limburgish, North-Limburgish (see Low Rhenish), and Brabantian. In the diagram, Sevenum is situated near the bottom-left corner of the blue area, which is the intersection of the horizontal "ich/ik" isogloss (the Uerdingen line) with the vertical "kalt/koud" isogloss.

Frens Bakker's list of Limburgish town names[1] has "Zaerem" (Sevenum) and "De Kroeënenberg" (Kronenberg), but it doesn't include "De Pieël" (Evertsoord), considering it to be in the Brabantian area.

[edit] External links

Official Sevenum website

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