Harderwijk, a fishing-town of the Netherlands, on the south-east shore of the Zuider Zee, 31 miles NE. of Utrecht by rail. From 1648 to 1811 it was the seat of a university. It is now a depot for recruits for the Dutch East Indian army. Pop. 7339.
Harderwijk
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 555
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