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Breda
Breda is a city in the province of North Brabant in the southern Netherlands. From 1403 it belonged to the House of Nassau, the family of William the Silent, and its castle was a seat of the princes of Orange. A key fortress in the Dutch Revolt, it was taken by Maurice of Nassau in 1590, recaptured by Spain in 1625 and won back by the Dutch in 1637, and the Treaty of Breda was signed there in 1667.
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