Bergen op Zoom

Bergen op Zoom is a town in the Dutch province of Noord Brabant and the capital of the municipality of Bergen op Zoom. In writing the call is now and again informally abbreviated to BoZ. In nearby Flanders, the Bergen op Zoom fashion is general, as it's miles used as an instance on signposting along the Antwerp ring street. The municipality of Bergen op Zoom has 66,164 population in early 2017, making it the 9th biggest municipality in North Brabant and the fifty fifth biggest municipality inside the Netherlands.

In Roman instances there was a place of sacrifice close to the present St. Gertrudis church, a large number of mini-amphoras were discovered. There also are Roman coins, a Celtic signet ring and an photograph of the Celtic god Sucellus. Possibly a temple stood at the website online of this church. The city originated on a sand ridge in a peat region that turned west into the Scheldt delta. The peat area east of the sand ridge changed into mined within the early 13th century. For drainage, the sand ridge changed into dug with a channel known as the Grebbe, which ran thru the city area at the modern day Korenmarkt to the Port.