Mill, Netherlands
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Mill is a village in the Dutch
Netherlands
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 municipality
Municipality
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 Mill en Sint Hubert
Mill en Sint Hubert
- Population centres :*Langenboom*Mill*Sint Hubert*Wilbertoord-External links:*...

, in the province
Province
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 of North Brabant
North Brabant
North Brabant , sometimes called Brabant, is a province of the Netherlands, located in the south of the country, bordered by Belgium in the south, the Meuse River in the north, Limburg in the east and Zeeland in the west.- History :...

. Mill is known from the Battle of Mill, a two day fight during the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940.

On 1 January 2006, Mill had 6,049 inhabitants and was the capital village of the municipality. The municipality house is located in Mill.

The name is not clearly derivable from history, although it is more or less clear that the village originates at least from 1166, under the name Millen or Mylle.
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