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Cleves (*Kleve*)
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State:	North Rhine-Westphalia
Capital:	Cleves (Kleve)
Adm. Region:	Düsseldorf
Area:	1,232.15 km²
Inhabitants:	302,946 (2001)
pop. density:	244 inh./km²
Car identification:	KLE
Homepage:	http://www.kreis-kleve.de
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Cleves (Kleve in German and these days also usually in English) is a Kreis (local-government district) in northwestern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighbouring districts are Borken, Wesel, and Viersen in Germany, and the Dutch provinces of Limburg and Gelderland.

1 History

The district in its present borders was created in 1975 when the former district of Kleve and Geldern was merged with the Rees District towns of Emmerich and Rees and the Moers District municipality of Rheurdt .

The two precursor districts had been created in 1816Events March 25 Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck dies and is succeeded by the later Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, his son and founder of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg. when the whole of the Rhineland became a province of PrussiaThe word Prussia ( German: Preussen (Preussen Polish: Prusy Lithuanian: Prusai Latin: Borussia has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad exclave of Russia. Territorially they corresponded roughly to the historic duchies of Cleves and Geldern.

2 Geography

The district is located in the lower valley of the Rhine, in the region where that river flows into the Netherlands.

3 Coat of arms

The coat of arms, which was granted in 1983Events January January 1 Beat Raaflaub became Basel Boys Choir's new conductor January 1 the ARPANET officially changes to use the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet. January 1 compulsory wearing of seat belts becomes law in the UK. January 2 The mu, combines the shields of the two constituent duchies.

The left half depicts the emblem of the dukes of Cleves: a white escutcheon with an eight-fold fleur-de-lys. The right half shows a golden lion on a blue ground: the emblem of the dukes of Geldern.

4 Towns and municipalities

Towns	Municipalities
Emmerich Geldern Goch Kalkar Kevelaer Cleves (Kleve) Rees Straelen	Bedburg-Hau Issum Kerken Kranenburg Rheurdt Uedem Wachtendonk Weeze

5 External links

Official website (German)

Rural and urban districts in North Rhine-Westphalia

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Cleves (district)Cleves Kleve in German and these days also usually in English) is a Kreis (local-government district) in northwestern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighbouring districts are Borken, Wesel, and Viersen in Germany, and the Dutch provinces of Limburg and

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