Egmont

The Egmond or Egmont family is named after Dutch town of Egmond and played an important role in the Netherlands during the Middle Ages.The family rose to power due to its hereditary position as guardians of the powerful Abbey of Egmond in North Holland, which was destroyed during the beeldenstorm...

Egmond is a former municipality in the north-western Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. In 2001, it was merged with the municipalities of Schoorl and Bergen to form the municipality of Bergen...

Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavere was a general and statesman in Flanders just before the start of the Eighty Years' War, whose execution helped spark the national uprising that eventually led to the independence of the Netherlands.The Count of Egmont headed one of the wealthiest and most...

Egmont is a play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which he completed in 1788. Like his earlier 'Storm and Stress' play Götz von Berlichingen , its dramaturgical structure is heavily influenced by Shakespearean tragedy; in contrast to the earlier work, Egmonts portrait of the downfall of a man who...

Egmont, opus 84, by Ludwig van Beethoven, is a set of incidental music pieces for the 1787 play of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It consists of an overture and nine separate subsequent pieces for soprano and full orchestra...

The Egmont pact of 1977 is an agreement on the reform of Belgium into a federal state and on the relations between the linguistic communities in the country...

The Egmont Palace is a large mansion at the Wolstraat / Rue aux Laines and the Kleine Zavel / Petit Sablon in Brussels, Belgium...

The Egmont Islands or Six Iles are one of the few emerged coral atolls that make up the Chagos Archipelago.This small atoll lies less than 10 km south of the submerged coral reef of the southern rim of the Great Chagos Bank...

Egmont is a media industry groups in Scandinavia. Founded by Egmont Harald Petersen in 1878 as a one-man printing business, the company's headquarters is still based in Copenhagen, Denmark...

Mount Taranaki, Mount Egmont, or simply Taranaki is an active but quiescent stratovolcano in the Taranaki region on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island. Its official name is the equivocal Mount Taranaki or Mount Egmont. The 2518-metre-high mountain is one of the most symmetrical volcanic...

Egmont National Park is located south of New Plymouth, close to the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is named for the mountain which dominates its environs, which itself was named by Captain Cook after John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont, the First Lord of the Admiralty who...

Egmont is a federal electoral district in Prince Edward Island, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968. Its population in 2001 was 35,208.-Demographics:Ethnic groups: 98.0% White, 1.4% Native Canadian
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The Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units is an informal international gathering of financial intelligence units . The Group was formed in 1995, and took its name from the palace in Brussels where the meeting took place....

The Egmont Group is founded and rooted in Denmark and was until 1992 known as Gutenberghus. The business area of Egmont has traditionally been magazine publishing but has over the years evolved to comprise media generally....

Egmont Key State Park is a Florida State Park located on Egmont Key, at the mouth of Tampa Bay, in the state of Florida, United States. It lies southwest of Fort DeSoto Park. It can only be reached by boat or ferry. The Egmont Key Lighthouse and the ruins of Fort Dade, a Spanish-American War era...

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . In 1871, it became the sixth province of Canada.The capital of British Columbia is Victoria, the 15th largest metropolitan region in Canada...

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Egmont:, a 74-gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1768, and broken up in 1799., another 74-gun third rate ship of the line, launched in 1810 and sold in 1875....

Egmont H. Petersens Kollegium is a hall of residence in Copenhagen with rooms for 492 students, located near Fælledparken in the Indre Østerbro district of the city. Egmont H. Petersen was the founder of the Egmont media group....