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Eindhoven, gemeente (municipality), southern Netherlands. It lies along the Dommel River, 68 miles (109 km) southeast of Rotterdam. Eindhoven was chartered in 1232 by Henry I, duke of Brabant. It developed after 1900 from a small village into one of the largest industrial centres of the Netherlands. In 1920 five adjoining municipalities were annexed, thereby increasing Eindhoven’s population from 6,000 to 45,000 and vastly increasing its area. Since then the town’s population has more than...

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