Aalst is a hamlet in the Dutch

Netherlands

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 province of Gelderland

Gelderland

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. It is a part of the municipality of Buren

Buren

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, and lies about 10 km southwest of Wageningen

Wageningen

' is a municipality and a historical town in the central Netherlands, in the province of Gelderland. It is famous for Wageningen University, which specializes in life sciences. The city has 37,414 inhabitants , of which many thousands are students...

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The statistical area "Aalst", which contains the hamlet Aalst, the farmland to the southwest, and the smaller hamlets Leutes

Leutes

Leutes is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is a part of the municipality of Buren, and lies about 9 km southwest of Wageningen....

 and Hoogmeien

Hoogmeien

Hoogmeien is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is a part of the municipality of Buren, and lies about 8 km northeast of Tiel....

, has a population of around 1060.

Between 1811 and 1998, Aalst belonged to the municipality of Lienden. In the middle of the 19th century, the population of Aalst was 150; there was a nice mansion called "Kolvenschoten" located here.