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the spring at Delphi, at the base of Mt. Parnassos, which was then named after her. Water from this spring was sacred; it was used to clean the Delphian temples and inspire the priestesses.
Cassandra, was a daughter of Hecuba and Priam. Apollo wished to court her. Cassandra promised to return his love on one co... | 2,500 |
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she would always stay unmarried.
## Female counterparts.
### Artemis.
Artemis as the sister of Apollo, is "thea apollousa", that is, she as a female divinity represented the same idea that Apollo did as a male divinity. In the pre-Hellenic period, their relationship was described as the one between husband an... | 2,501 |
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girls. Though she has nothing to do with oracles, music or poetry, she sometimes led the female chorus on Olympus while Apollo sang. The laurel was sacred to both. "Artemis Daphnaia" had her temple among the Lacedemonians, at a place called Hypsoi. In later times when Apollo was regarded as identical with the su... | 2,502 |
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epithets, "Hecatos", is the masculine form of Hecate, and both the names mean "working from afar". While Apollo presided over the prophetic powers and magic of light and heaven, Hecate presided over the prophetic powers and magic of night and chthonian darkness. If Hecate is the "gate-keeper", Apollo "Agyieus" i... | 2,503 |
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solar nature.
### Athena.
As a deity of knowledge and great power, Apollo was seen being the male counterpart of Athena. Being Zeus' favorite children, they were given more powers and duties. Apollo and Athena often took up the role as protectors of cities, and were patrons of some of the important cities. Ath... | 2,504 |
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usually does. Apollo's decisions were usually approved by his sister Athena, and they both worked to establish the law and order set forth by Zeus.
## Apollo in the "Oresteia".
In Aeschylus' "Oresteia" trilogy, Clytemnestra kills her husband, King Agamemnon because he had sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia to... | 2,505 |
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holds that the bond of marriage is sacred and Orestes was avenging his father, whereas the Erinyes say that the bond of blood between mother and son is more meaningful than the bond of marriage. They invade his temple, and he drives them away. He says that the matter should be brought before Athena. Apollo promi... | 2,506 |
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the Delphic oracle was consulted as early as the period of the kings of Rome during the reign of Tarquinius Superbus.
On the occasion of a pestilence in the 430s BCE, Apollo's first temple at Rome was established in the Flaminian fields, replacing an older cult site there known as the "Apollinare". During the S... | 2,507 |
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fought near a sanctuary of Apollo, Augustus enlarged Apollo's temple, dedicated a portion of the spoils to him, and instituted quinquennial games in his honour. He also erected a new temple to the god on the Palatine hill. Sacrifices and prayers on the Palatine to Apollo and Diana formed the culmination of the S... | 2,508 |
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festivals were the Carneia and the Hyacinthia.
Thebes every nine years held the Daphnephoria.
# Attributes and symbols.
Apollo's most common attributes were the bow and arrow. Other attributes of his included the kithara (an advanced version of the common lyre), the plectrum and the sword. Another common embl... | 2,509 |
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deer, swans, cicadas (symbolizing music and song), hawks, ravens, crows, snakes (referencing Apollo's function as the god of prophecy), mice and griffins, mythical eagle–lion hybrids of Eastern origin.
As god of colonization, Apollo gave oracular guidance on colonies, especially during the height of colonizatio... | 2,510 |
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identical with the Greek Ilion by most scholars. In this interpretation, Apollo's title of "Lykegenes" can simply be read as "born in Lycia", which effectively severs the god's supposed link with wolves (possibly a folk etymology).
In literary contexts, Apollo represents harmony, order, and reason—characteristi... | 2,511 |
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appears to be shown on the two sides of the Borghese Vase.
Apollo is often associated with the Golden Mean. This is the Greek ideal of moderation and a virtue that opposes gluttony.
# Apollo in the arts.
Apollo is a common theme in Greek and Roman art and also in the art of the Renaissance. The earliest Greek... | 2,512 |
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statues are associated with the cult of the body that was essentially a religious activity. The muscular frames and limbs combined with slim waists indicate the Greek desire for health, and the physical capacity which was necessary in the hard Greek environment. The statues of Apollo embody beauty, balance and i... | 2,513 |
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to the analogies and the interaction of the members in the whole, a method created by Polykleitos. Finally Praxiteles seems to be released from any art and religious conformities, and his masterpieces are a mixture of naturalism with stylization.
## Art and Greek philosophy.
The evolution of the Greek art seem... | 2,514 |
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life, through unnaturally simplified forms.
Pythagoras believed that behind the appearance of things, there was the permanent principle of mathematics, and that the forms were based on a transcendental mathematical relation. The forms on earth, are imperfect imitations (, "eikones", "images") of the celestial w... | 2,515 |
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theory of "forms" ("ideai", "ideas"). The forms on earth are imperfect duplicates of the intellectual celestial ideas. The Greek words "oida" (, "(I) know") and "eidos" (, "species"), a thing seen, have the same root as the word "idea" (), a thing ἰδείν to see. indicating how the Greek mind moved from the gift o... | 2,516 |
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of standing male youths which first appear in the archaic period in Greece. This type served certain religious needs and was first proposed for what was previously thought to be depictions of "Apollo". The first statues are certainly still and formal. The formality of their stance seems to be related with the Eg... | 2,517 |
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recognizable type for a long time, is probably because nature gives preference in survival of a type which has long be adopted by the climatic conditions, and also due to the general Greek belief that nature expresses itself in "ideal forms" that can be imagined and represented. These forms expressed immortality... | 2,518 |
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one's attention to look into the interior of the face and the body which were not represented as lifeless masses, but as being full of life. The Greeks maintained, until late in their civilization, an almost animistic idea that the statues are in some sense alive. This embodies the belief that the image was some... | 2,519 |
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body, giving the impression that the statues could move. It is considered that he created also the "New York kouros", which is the oldest fully preserved statue of "Kouros" type, and seems to be the incarnation of the god himself.
The animistic idea as the representation of the imaginative reality, is sanctifie... | 2,520 |
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in limestone, bronze, ivory and terracotta.
The earliest examples of life-sized statues of Apollo, may be two figures from the Ionic sanctuary on the island of Delos. Such statues were found across the Greek speaking world, the preponderance of these were found at the sanctuaries of Apollo with more than one hu... | 2,521 |
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the harbour of Athens. The statue originally held the bow in its left hand, and a cup of pouring libation in its right hand. It probably comes from north-eastern Peloponnesus. The emphasis is given in anatomy, and it is one of the first attempts to represent a kind of motion, and beauty relative to proportions, ... | 2,522 |
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that beauty in visible things as in everything else, consisted of symmetry and proportions. The artists tried also to represent motion in a specific moment (Myron), which may be considered as the reappearance of the dormant Minoan element. Anatomy and geometry are fused in one, and each does something to the oth... | 2,523 |
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famous "Apollo of Mantua" and its variants are early forms of the Apollo Citharoedus statue type, in which the god holds the cithara in his left arm. The type is represented by neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century, modelled upon a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second ... | 2,524 |
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alone. The statues of Apollo were thought to incarnate his living presence, and these representations of illusive imaginative reality had deep roots in the Minoan period, and in the beliefs of the first Greek speaking people who entered the region during the bronze-age. Just as the Greeks saw the mountains, fore... | 2,525 |
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were the same. Artists and sculptors tried to find this ideal order in relation with mathematics, but they believed that this ideal order revealed itself not so much to the dispassionate intellect, as to the whole sentient self. Things as we see them, and as they really are, are one, that each stresses the natur... | 2,526 |
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scale of height with other figures sitting or kneeling. The pediment shows the story of Heracles stealing Apollo's tripod that was strongly associated with his oracular inspiration. Their two figures hold the centre. In the pediment of the temple of Zeus in Olympia, the single figure of Apollo is dominating the ... | 2,527 |
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a passage to and from a busy battlefield. The artists seem to have been dominated by geometrical pattern and order, and this was improved when classical art brought a greater freedom and economy.
## Hellenistic Greece-Rome.
Apollo as a handsome beardless young man, is often depicted with a kithara (as Apollo C... | 2,528 |
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the Greek sculptor Leochares, made between 350 and 325 BCE.
The life-size so-called "Adonis" found in 1780 on the site of a "villa suburbana" near the Via Labicana in the Roman suburb of Centocelle is identified as an Apollo by modern scholars. In the late 2nd century CE floor mosaic from El Djem, Roman "Thysdr... | 2,529 |
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grazing the neck, were developed in the 3rd century BCE to depict Alexander the Great. Some time after this mosaic was executed, the earliest depictions of Christ would also be beardless and haloed.
# Modern reception.
Apollo has often featured in postclassical art and literature. Percy Bysshe Shelley composed... | 2,530 |
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with imposing intellectual order and the latter with chaotic creativity. Friedrich Nietzsche argued that a fusion of the two was most desirable. Carl Jung's Apollo archetype represents what he saw as the disposition in people to over-intellectualise and maintain emotional distance.
Charles Handy, in "Gods of Ma... | 2,531 |
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(disambiguation)
# References.
## Primary sources.
- Hesiod, "Theogony", in "The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White", Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, "The Iliad w... | 2,532 |
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Digital Library.
- Sophocles, "Oedipus Rex"
- Palaephatus, "On Unbelievable Tales" 46. Hyacinthus (330 BCE)
- Apollodorus, "Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes." Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 19... | 2,533 |
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"Images" i.24 Hyacinthus (170–245 CE)
- Philostratus the Younger, "Images" 14. Hyacinthus (170–245 CE)
- Lucian, "Dialogues of the Gods" 14 (170 CE)
- First Vatican Mythographer, 197. Thamyris et Musae
## Secondary sources.
- M. Bieber, 1964. "Alexander the Great in Greek and Roman Art". Chicago.
- Hugh Bo... | 2,534 |
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revised edition. Penguin.
- Miranda J. Green, 1997. "Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend", Thames and Hudson.
- Karl Kerenyi, 1953. "Apollon: Studien über Antiken Religion und Humanität" revised edition.
- Karl Kerenyi, 1951. "The Gods of the Greeks"
- Mertens, Dieter; Schutzenberger, Margareta. "Città e mo... | 2,535 |
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riechische Religion", vol. I. C.H. Beck.
- Pauly–Wissowa, "Realencyclopädie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft": II, "Apollon". The best repertory of cult sites (Burkert).
- Pfeiff, K.A., 1943. "Apollon: Wandlung seines Bildes in der griechischen Kunst". Traces the changing iconography of Apollo.
- D.S.Rob... | 2,536 |
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Mixmaster Morris
Mixmaster Morris (born Morris Gould, 30 December 1965) is an English ambient DJ and underground musician. Famous for his, "It's time to lie down and be counted" quote, relating specifically to ambient music, Morris stated "It's exactly what you need if you have a busy and stressful l... | 2,537 |
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"Mongolian Hip Hop Show" on pirate radio station Network 21 in London – the handle Mixmaster Morris was suggested by the station director. After a year of managing a club called "The Gift" in New Cross, which had been founded by Keith Gallagher and named after a Velvet Underground song, Morris began re... | 2,538 |
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tours for nearly two years.
The first release as The Irresistible Force was the single, "I Want To" (1988), but success came with the first album, "Flying High", released in 1992 on Rising High Records. In 1994, Morris released the second album "Global Chillage" which featured a holographic sleeve, an... | 2,539 |
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was also released as a CD. "The Morning After" became his first major-label mix album, followed by "Abstract Funk Theory" for Obsessive.
Through the 1990s he was a regular DJ in the chill out room at Return to the Source parties in London, around the UK and abroad. In 2003 he released the mix CD "God ... | 2,540 |
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Agency, Sven Vath and Rising High Collective.
In the early 1990s his key residencies were alongside the Detroit masters at Lost, Megatripolis at London's Heaven, and also the Tribal Gathering parties. He became known for wearing holographic suits, produced by the company Spacetime, which he modelled f... | 2,541 |
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in over fifty countries at nightclubs and parties, and particularly music festivals such as the Full Moon parties in the Mojave Desert, Glastonbury Festival, Rainbow 2000 and Mother SOS in Japan, Chillits in Northern California, and Berlin's Love Parade. He also ran the downtempo night Nubient in Brixt... | 2,542 |
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Ninja Tune record label, with whom he toured as a DJ and made three releases. 1999 saw him win 'Best Chillout DJ' at the Ibiza DJ Awards at Pacha, Ibiza, and in 2001 he won the title for a second time, becoming the first DJ to achieve this. He has appeared in many lists of the worlds top DJ's including... | 2,543 |
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made a one-off appearance reading it aloud.
In March 2007, together with Coldcut, he organised a tribute show to the writer and philosopher Robert Anton Wilson, which they performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. He also played in Goa for the first time with The Big Chill, and started a new residency at... | 2,544 |
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a tour of Japan to promote it.
In 2010, he won another Ibiza DJ Award, for the third time. In October that year, he was announced as Head of A+R for Apollo Records. 2011 saw him rejoin Bestival as part of their "Ambient Forest" team.
2017 saw Morris continue to stay at the top of the psybient/downtem... | 2,545 |
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7 along such luminaries as Brian Eno and Steve Roach.
# Discography.
- "Flying High" – Rising High Records (1992)
- "Global Chillage" – Rising High Records (1994)
- "It's Tomorrow Already" – Ninja Tune (1998)
- "Kira Kira" – Liquid Sound Design (2017)
# Appearances in media.
- The track "Power" ... | 2,546 |
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Maus (disambiguation)
Maus is a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novels by Art Spiegelman.
Maus may also refer to:
- "Maus", the German word for mouse
- Burg Maus, a castle in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
- "Die Sendung mit der Maus", a children's television show from Germany
- Maus... | 2,547 |
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Maastricht
Maastricht (, , ; Limburgish : ; ; ) is a city and a municipality in the southeast of the Netherlands. It is the capital and largest city of the province of Limburg. Maastricht is located on both sides of the Meuse (Dutch: "Maas"), at the point where the Jeker joins it. It is adjacent to the bord... | 2,548 |
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the second highest number in the Netherlands, after Amsterdam. The city is visited by tourists for shopping and recreation, and has a large international student population. Maastricht is a member of the Most Ancient European Towns Network and is part of the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion, which includes the nearby ... | 2,549 |
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in 945, "Masetrieth" in 1051.
The place name "Maastricht" is an Old Dutch compound "Masa-" ( "Maas" "the Meuse river") + Old Dutch "*treiekt", itself borrowed from Gallo-Romance cf. its Walloon name "li trek", from Classical Latin "trajectus" ("ford, passage, place to cross a river") with the later addition... | 2,550 |
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"Sjeng" (derived from the formerly popular French name "Jean").
## Early history.
Neanderthal remains have been found to the west of Maastricht (Belvédère excavations). Of a later date are Palaeolithic remains, between 8,000 and 25,000 years old. Celts lived here around 500 BC, at a spot where the river Me... | 2,551 |
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Roman road, the bridge, a religious shrine, a Roman bath, a granary, some houses and the 4th-century castrum walls and gates, have been excavated. Fragments of provincial Roman sculptures, as well as coins, jewellery, glass, pottery and other objects from Roman Maastricht are on display in the exhibition spa... | 2,552 |
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The city remained an early Christian diocese until it lost the distinction to nearby Liège in the 8th or 9th century.
## Middle Ages.
In the early Middle Ages Maastricht was part of the heartland of the Carolingian Empire along with Aachen and the area around Liège. The town was an important centre for tra... | 2,553 |
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this era. The two collegiate churches were largely rebuilt and redecorated. Maastricht Romanesque stone sculpture and silversmithing are regarded as highlights of Mosan art. Maastricht painters were praised by Wolfram von Eschenbach in his Parzival. Around the same time, the poet Henric van Veldeke wrote a l... | 2,554 |
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prince-bishops of Liège and the dukes of Brabant holding joint sovereignty over the city. Soon afterwards the first ring of medieval walls were built. In 1275, the old Roman bridge collapsed under the weight of a procession, killing 400 people. A replacement, funded by church indulgences, was built slightly ... | 2,555 |
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the industrial revolution in the early 19th century.
## 16th to 18th centuries.
The important strategic location of Maastricht resulted in the construction of an impressive array of fortifications around the city during this period. The Spanish and Dutch garrisons became an important factor in the city's e... | 2,556 |
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of Maastricht.
Another Siege of Maastricht (1673) took place during the Franco-Dutch War. In June 1673, Louis XIV laid siege to the city because French battle supply lines were being threatened. During this siege, Vauban, the famous French military engineer, developed a new strategy in order to break down t... | 2,557 |
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"The Vicomte de Bragelonne", part of the D'Artagnan Romances. French troops occupied Maastricht from 1673 to 1678.
In 1748 the French again conquered the city at what is known as the Second French Siege of Maastricht, during the War of Austrian Succession. The French took the city for the last time in 1794,... | 2,558 |
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(1815–1839). When the southern provinces of the newly formed kingdom seceded in 1830, the Dutch garrison in Maastricht remained loyal to the Dutch king, William I, even when most of the inhabitants of the town and the surrounding area sided with the Belgian revolutionaries. In 1831, arbitration by the Great ... | 2,559 |
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integration of Maastricht and Limburg into the Netherlands did not come about easily. Maastricht retained a distinctly non-Dutch appearance during much of the 19th century and it was not until the First World War that the city was forced to look northwards.
Like the rest of the Netherlands, Maastricht remai... | 2,560 |
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The three Meuse bridges were destroyed or severely damaged during the war. As elsewhere in the Netherlands, the majority of Maastricht Jews died in Nazi concentration camps.
## After World War II.
During the latter half of the century, traditional industries (such as Maastricht's potteries) declined and th... | 2,561 |
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regarded as the world's leading art fair, annually draws in some of the wealthiest art collectors.
In recent years, Maastricht launched several campaigns against drug-dealing in an attempt to stop foreign buyers taking advantage of the liberal Dutch legislation and causing trouble in the downtown area.
Sin... | 2,562 |
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built on the grounds of the former Société Céramique factory near the town centre. As a result, Maastricht looks notably smarter. Further large-scale projects, such as the redevelopment of the area around the A2 motorway, the Sphinx Quarter and the Belvédère area, are under construction.
# Geography.
## Ne... | 2,563 |
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3. North-West (Brusselsepoort, Mariaberg, Belfort, Pottenberg, Malpertuis, Caberg, Malberg, Dousberg-Hazendans, Daalhof, Boschpoort, Bosscherveld, Frontenkwartier, Belvédère, Lanakerveld)
- 4. North-East (Beatrixhaven, Borgharen, Itteren, Meerssenhoven, Wyckerpoort, Wittevrouwenveld, Nazareth, Limmel, Amby)... | 2,564 |
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villages are bordering the municipality of Maastricht directly.
"Clockwise from north-east to north-west:"
- Bunde,
- Meerssen,
- Berg en Terblijt,
- Bemelen,
- Cadier en Keer,
- Gronsveld,
- Oost,
- Lanaye (B),
- Petit-Lanaye (B),
- Kanne (B),
- Vroenhoven (B),
- Kesselt (B),
- Veldwezelt (B),... | 2,565 |
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climate as most of the Netherlands ("Cfb", Oceanic climate), however, due to its more inland location in between hills, summers tend to be warmer (especially in the Meuse valley, which lies 70 metres lower than the meteorological station) and winters a bit colder, although the difference is only remarkable a... | 2,566 |
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institutions) as well as administration. Dutch in Maastricht is often spoken with a distinctive Limburgish accent, which should not be confused with the Limburgish language.
- Limburgish (or "Limburgian") is the overlapping term of the tonal dialects spoken in the Dutch and Belgian provinces of Limburg. The... | 2,567 |
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language occupied a powerful position as judicial and cultural language, and it was used throughout the following century by the upper classes. Between 1851 and 1892 a Francophone newspaper ("Le Courrier de la Meuse") was published in Maastricht. The language is often part of secondary school curricula. Many... | 2,568 |
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Hogeschool Zuyd it is the language of instruction for many courses. Many foreign students and expatriates use English as a lingua franca. English is also a mandatory subject in Dutch elementary and secondary schools.
## Religion.
The largest religion in Maastricht is Christianity with 65.1% of the populati... | 2,569 |
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Hewlett-Packard – previously Indigo, manufacturer of electronic data systems
- Vodafone – mobile phone company
- Q-Park – international operator of parking garages
- DHL – international express mail services
- Teleperformance – contact center services
- Mercedes-Benz – customer contact centre for Europe... | 2,570 |
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institutions.
Since the 1980s a number of European and international institutions have made Maastricht their base. They provide an increasing number of employment opportunities for expats living in the Maastricht area.
- Administration of the Dutch province of Limburg
- Meuse-Rhine Euroregion
- "Limburg ... | 2,571 |
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Studies (MCTS)"
- "Expert Centre for Sustainable Business and Development Cooperation (ECSAD)"
- "Council of European Municipalities and Regions (REGR)"
- "European Centre for Digital Communication (EC/DC)"
- UNU-MERIT
- "Maastricht Research School of Economics of TEchnology and ORganization (METEOR)"
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locally listed buildings ("gemeentelijke monumenten"). The entire city centre is a conservation area ("beschermd stadsgezicht"). The tourist information office (VVV) is located in the Dinghuis, a medieval courthouse overlooking Grote Staat.
Maastricht's main sights include:
- Meuse river, with several park... | 2,573 |
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Gate"), an imposing gate with two towers, built shortly after 1230, the oldest city gate in the Netherlands;
- Waterpoortje ("Little Water Gate"), a medieval gate in Wyck, used for accessing the city from the Meuse, demolished in the 19th century but rebuilt shortly afterwards;
- Hoge Fronten (or: Linie va... | 2,574 |
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for several kilometres underneath the city's fortifications, some isolated, others connected to each other. Guided tours are available.
- Binnenstad: inner-city district with pedestrianized shopping streets including Grote and Kleine Staat, and high-end shopping streets Stokstraat and Maastrichter Smedenstr... | 2,575 |
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with important medieval sculptures (most notably the westwork and east choir sculpted capitals, corbels and reliefs, and the sculpted South Portal or Bergportaal). The tomb of Saint Servatius in the crypt is a favoured place of pilgrimage. The church has an important church treasury;
- Sint-Janskerk, a Goth... | 2,576 |
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17th-century military guard house, used for exhibitions;
- Generaalshuis ("General's House"), a Neoclassical mansion, now the city's main theater (Theater aan het Vrijthof).
- Onze Lieve Vrouweplein, a tree-lined square with a number of pavement cafes. Main sights:
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free. Sights include:
- The Town Hall, built in the 17th century by Pieter Post and considered one of the highlights of Dutch Baroque architecture. Nearby is Dinghuis, the medieval town hall and courthouse with an early Renaissance façade;
- Mosae Forum, a new shopping centre and civic building designed by... | 2,578 |
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Jekerkwartier, a neighbourhood named after the small river Jeker, which pops up between old houses and remnants of city walls. The western part of the neighbourhood (also called the Latin Quarter of Maastricht), is dominated by university buildings and art schools. Sights include:
- a number of churches and... | 2,579 |
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the 19th century, lined with elegant houses, the city's poorhouse (now part of the university library) and Sint-Maartenshofje, a typically Dutch hofje.
- Kommelkwartier and Statenkwartier, two relatively quiet inner city neighbourhoods with several imposing monasteries and university buildings. The largely ... | 2,580 |
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on one side and interesting industrial architecture on the other side.
- Wyck, the old quarter on the right bank of the river Meuse.
- Saint Martin's Church, a Gothic Revival church designed by Pierre Cuypers in 1856;
- Rechtstraat is a street in Wyck, with many historic buildings and a mix of specialty s... | 2,581 |
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a showcase of architectural highlights:
- Wiebengahal, one of the few remaining industrial monuments in the neighbourhood and an early example of modern architecture in the Netherlands, dating from 1912;
- Bonnefanten Museum by Aldo Rossi;
- Centre Céramique, a public library and exhibition space by Jo Co... | 2,582 |
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south of the city, peaking at above sea level. It serves as Maastricht's main recreation area and a viewing point. The main sights include:
- Fort Sint-Pieter, an early 18th-century military fortress fully restored in recent years;
- Caves of Maastricht aka "Grotten Sint-Pietersberg", an underground networ... | 2,583 |
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reserve.
## Museums in Maastricht.
- Bonnefanten Museum is the foremost museum for old masters and contemporary fine art in the province of Limburg. The collection features medieval sculpture, early Italian painting, Southern Netherlandish painting, and contemporary art.
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from the Middle Ages and later periods.
- Derlon Museumkelder is a preserved archeological site in the basement of a hotel with Roman and pre-Roman remains.
- The Maastricht Natural History Museum exhibits collections relating to the geology, paleontology and flora and fauna of Limburg. Highlights in the c... | 2,585 |
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and designers.
## Events and festivals.
- "Dies natalis", birthday of the University of Maastricht, with procession of university faculty to St. John's Church where honorary degrees are awarded.
- Carnival (Maastrichtian: "Vastelaovend") - a traditional three-day festival in the southern part of the Nethe... | 2,586 |
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in May.
- "Stadsprocessie", religious procession with reliquaries of local saints (first Sunday after 13 May).
- Pilgrimage of the Relics (Dutch: "Heiligdomsvaart"), pilgrimage with relics display and processions dating from the Middle Ages (May/June; once in 7 years; next: 2025).
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the Vrijthof square (August).
- "Inkom", the traditional opening of the academic year and introduction for new students of Maastricht University (August).
- Musica Sacra, a festival of religious (classical) music (September).
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and other locations throughout the city (December/January).
Furthermore, the Maastricht Exposition and Congress Centre (MECC) hosts many events throughout the year.
# Nature.
## Parks.
There are several city parks and recreational areas in Maastricht:
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will be gradually added to the park;
- Jekerpark, a new park along the river Jeker, separated from Stadspark by a busy road;
- Frontenpark, a new park west of the city centre, incorporating parts of the fortifications of Maastricht from the 17th to 19th centuries;
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Natural areas.
- The Meuse river and its green banks in outlying areas. In the northern areas around Itteren and Borgharen 'new nature' is being created in combination with river protection measures and gravel mining.
- Pietersplas, an artificial lake between Maastricht and Gronsveld that was the result of... | 2,591 |
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fertile fields, some vineyards on the slopes of Cannerberg, several water mills and Château Neercanne, and continues further south into Belgium.
- The green flanks of Mount Saint Peter, including many footpaths.
- Dousberg and Zouwdal, a modest hill and valley surrounded by urban development on the western... | 2,592 |
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the castles, villas and stately homes are surrounded by industrial areas or quarries.
- Bike paths through agricultural areas in several outlying quarters (like "Biesland" and "Wolder").
# Sports.
- In football, Maastricht is represented by MVV Maastricht (Dutch: "Maatschappelijke Voetbal Vereniging Maast... | 2,593 |
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been the traditional starting place of the annual Amstel Gold Race, the only Dutch cycling classic. For several years the race also finished in Maastricht, but since 2002 the finale has been on the Cauberg hill in nearby Valkenburg. Tom Dumoulin was born in Maastricht.
- Since 2000, Maastricht has been the ... | 2,594 |
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appoints the aldermen on the basis of a coalition agreement between two or more parties after each election. The 2006 municipal elections in the Netherlands were, as often, dominated by national politics and led to a shift from right to left throughout the country. In Maastricht, the traditional broad govern... | 2,595 |
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2006 (Liberalen Maastricht). The other opposition parties in the current city council are the Socialist Party (SP), the Democrats (D66) and two local parties (Stadsbelangen Mestreech (SBM) and the Seniorenpartij).
## Aldermen and mayors.
The aldermen and the mayor make up the executive branch of the munici... | 2,596 |
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(VVD), the only male mayor in the country, who officially was married to a male person. In 2013 Hoes was the subject of some political commotion, after facts had been disclosed about intimate affairs with several other male persons. The affair had no consequences for his political career. Because of a new af... | 2,597 |
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attorney general.
## Cannabis.
One controversial issue which has dominated Maastricht politics for many years and which has also affected national and international politics, is the city's approach to soft drugs. Under the pragmatic Dutch soft drug policy, a policy of non-enforcement, individuals may buy a... | 2,598 |
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policy reform in order to deal with its negative side effects.
One of the proposals, known as the 'Coffee Corner Plan', proposed by then-mayor Leers and supported unanimously by the city council in 2008, was to relocate the coffeeshops from the city centre to the outskirts of the town (in some cases near th... | 2,599 |
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