Bourtange
Established during the Eighty Years' War, the fortified town of Bourtange is a charming destination in the Westerwolde region of the Northern Netherlands, right on the border with Germany.
- Type: Village with 1,140 residents
- Description: village in Westerwolde, Netherlands
- Also known as: “Boertange”, “حصن بورتانغي”, and “布爾坦赫要塞”
- Postal code: 9545
Places of Interest
Highlights: Bourtange Fortress and Vestingmolen Bourtange.
Bourtange Fortress
Castle
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Westerwolde and Stakenborg.
Westerwolde
Westerwolde is a region in the southeast of in Groningen province in the Netherlands.
Bourtange
- Categories: fortified town, cadastral populated place in the Netherlands, and locality
- Location: Westerwolde Municipality, Groningen, Northern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
53.0067° or 53° 0′ 24″ north
Longitude
7.1921° or 7° 11′ 32″ east
Population
1,140
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
UN/LOCODE
NL BTA
Open location code
9F59254R+MR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bourtange” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bourtange”
- Arabic: “بورتانغي”
- Aragonese: “Bourtange”
- Arpitan: “Bourtange”
- Asturian: “Bourtange”
- Basque: “Bourtange”
- Bavarian: “Bourtange”
- Breton: “Bourtange”
- Catalan: “Bourtange”
- Chinese: “鮑爾坦赫”
- Chinese: “鲍尔坦赫”
- Corsican: “Bourtange”
- Croatian: “Bourtange”
- Czech: “Bourtange”
- Danish: “Bourtange”
- Dutch: “Bourtange”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حصن بورتانجى”
- Esperanto: “Bourtange”
- Estonian: “Bourtange”
- Finnish: “Bourtange”
- French: “Bourtange”
- Friulian: “Bourtange”
- Galician: “Bourtange”
- German: “Bourtange”
- Hungarian: “Bourtange”
- Icelandic: “Bourtange”
- Ido: “Bourtange”
- Indonesian: “Bourtange”
- Interlingua: “Bourtange”
- Interlingue: “Bourtange”
- Irish: “Bourtange”
- Italian: “Bourtange”
- Jèrriais: “Bourtange”
- Kongo: “Bourtange”
- Ladin: “Bourtange”
- Ligurian: “Bourtange”
- Limburgan: “Bourtange”
- Low German: “Boertang”
- Low German: “Bourtange”
- Luxembourgish: “Bourtange”
- Malagasy: “Bourtange”
- Malay: “Bourtange”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bourtange”
- Minangkabau: “Bourtange”
- Neapolitan: “Bourtange”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bourtange”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bourtange”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bourtange”
- Persian: “بورتانژ”
- Picard: “Bourtange”
- Piemontese: “Bourtange”
- Polish: “Bourtange”
- Portuguese: “Bourtange”
- Romanian: “Bourtange”
- Romansh: “Bourtange”
- Sardinian: “Bourtange”
- Saterfriesisch: “Bourtange”
- Scots: “Bourtange”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bourtange”
- Serbian: “Bourtange”
- Sicilian: “Bourtange”
- Slovak: “Bourtange”
- Slovenian: “Bourtange”
- Spanish: “Bourtange”
- Swahili: “Bourtange”
- Swedish: “Bourtange”
- Swiss German: “Bourtange”
- Ukrainian: “Бауртанге”
- Urdu: “بورٹانج”
- Venetian: “Bourtange”
- Vietnamese: “Bourtange”
- Vlaams: “Bourtange”
- Volapük: “Bourtange”
- Walloon: “Bourtange”
- Welsh: “Bourtange”
- Western Frisian: “Bourtange”
- Wolof: “Bourtange”
- Zulu: “Bourtange”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Pallert and Abeltjeshuis.
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