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| name                    = Coevorden
| native_name             = {{native name|nds-nl|Koevern}}
| settlement_type         = [[List of cities in the Netherlands by province|City]] and [[List of municipalities of the Netherlands|municipality]]
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| image_caption           = Castle and city hall of Coevorden in 2007
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| map_alt                 = Highlighted position of Coevorden in a municipal map of Drenthe
| map_caption             = Location in Drenthe
| coordinates             = {{coord|52|40|N|6|45|E|region:NL-DR|display=inline,title}}
| coordinates_footnotes   = 
| subdivision_type        = Country
| subdivision_name        = [[Netherlands]]
| subdivision_type1       = Province
| subdivision_name1       = [[Drenthe]]
| government_footnotes    = <ref name="mayor_now">{{cite web
 |url          = http://www.coevorden.nl/bestuur-en-politiek/burgemeester-en-wethouders.html
 |title        = Burgemeester en wethouders
 |trans-title  = Mayor and aldermen
 |language     = nl
 |publisher    = Gemeente Coevorden
 |access-date   = 6 October 2013
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055954/http://www.coevorden.nl/bestuur-en-politiek/burgemeester-en-wethouders.html
 |archive-date = 21 September 2013
 |url-status     = dead
 |df           = dmy-all
}}</ref>
| governing_body          = [[Municipal council (Netherlands)|Municipal council]]
| leader_party            = [[Christian Democratic Appeal|CDA]]
| leader_title            = [[Burgemeester|Mayor]]
| leader_name             = [[Renze Bergsma]]
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| area_water_km2          = {{Dutch municipality water area|Coevorden}}
| elevation_footnotes     = <ref name="AHN">{{cite web 
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 |work = Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland
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| population_demonym      = Coevordenaar
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| postal_code_type        = [[Postal codes in the Netherlands|Postcode]]
| postal_code             = 7740–7759, 7840–7869 
| area_code_type          = [[Telephone numbers in the Netherlands|Area code]]
| area_code               = 0524, 0528, 0591
| website                 = {{URL|1=http://www.coevorden.nl}}
| footnotes               =
}}
'''Coevorden''' ({{IPA|nl|ˈkuvɔrdə(n)|-|Nl-Coevorden.oga}}; {{langx|nds-nl|Koevern}}; {{langx|de|Kuhfurt}}) is a [[List of municipalities of the Netherlands|municipality]] and city in the [[Provinces of the Netherlands|province]] of [[Drenthe]], in the northeast of [[Netherlands|the Netherlands]]. During the 1998 municipal reorganisation in the province, Coevorden merged with [[Dalen]], [[Sleen]], [[Oosterhesselen]] and [[Zweeloo]], retaining its name. In August 2017, it had a population of 35,267.

== Etymology ==
The name ''Coevorden'' means "cow [[Ford (crossing)|ford(s)]]" or  "cow crossing", similar to ''[[Bosporus]]'' or ''[[Oxford]]''.<ref name="vancouver">{{cite web |url=https://vancouverhistory.ca/coevorden/ |title=Coevorden |website=The History of Metropolitan Vancouver |publisher=The History of Metropolitan Vancouver |access-date=2013-03-26}}</ref>

[[File:De bestorming van Coevorden, 30 december 1672 Rijksmuseum SK-A-486.jpeg|thumb|left|250px|Painting of the (re)capture of Coevorden by Dutch troops commanded by [[Carl von Rabenhaupt]] in December 1672, as part of the [[Franco-Dutch War]].]]

== History ==
[[File:Coevorden.jpg|thumb|Fortification plan of Coevorden, in [[Star fort]] style.]]

Coevorden received [[City rights in the Low Countries|city rights]] in 1408. It is the oldest city in the province of [[Drenthe]].

The city [[Siege of Coevorden (1592)|was captured from the Spanish]] in 1592 by a Dutch and English force under the command of  [[Maurice, Prince of Orange]]. The following year it [[Siege of Coevorden (1593)|was besieged]] by a Spanish force but the city held out until its relief in May 1594. Coevorden was then rebuilt in the early seventeenth century to an ''ideal city'' design, similar to [[Palmanova]]. The streets were laid out in a radial pattern within polygonal fortifications and extensive outer earthworks.

The city of Coevorden indirectly gave its name to both [[Vancouver]], British Columbia, Canada and [[Vancouver, Washington]], named after the 18th-century British explorer [[George Vancouver]]. The explorer's ancestors (and family name) originally came to England "from Coevorden" ([[tussenvoegsel|van]] Coevern in [[Dutch Low Saxon]]).<ref name="vancouver"/> There is also a family of nobility with the surname [[van Coeverden]], sometimes spelled with a K (as with Canadian kayaker [[Adam van Koeverden]]).

== Geography ==
[[File:Coevorden-plaats-OpenTopo.jpg|thumb|2014 map of the city of Coevorden]]

Coervorden is located at {{coords|52|40|N|6|45|E}} in the south of the province of [[Drenthe]] in the east of the [[Netherlands]].

The population centres in the municipality are:
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* [[Aalden]]
* [[Achterste Erm]]
* [[Ballast, Coevorden|Ballast]]
* [[Benneveld]]
* Coevorden
* [[Dalen]]
* [[Dalerpeel]]
* [[Dalerveen]]
* [[De Kiel]]
* De Mars
* [[Den Hool]]
* [[Diphoorn]]
* [[Eldijk]]
* [[Erm, Netherlands|Erm]]
* [[Gees]]
* [[Geesbrug]]
* [[Grevenberg]]
* [['t Haantje, Drenthe|'t Haantje]]
* [[Holsloot]]
* [[Hoogehaar]]
* [[Kibbelveen]]
* [[Klooster, Drenthe|Klooster]]
* [[Langerak, Drenthe|Langerak]]
* [[Meppen, Coevorden|Meppen]]
* [[Nieuwe Krim]]
* [[Nieuwlande]]
* [[Noord-Sleen]]
* [[Oosterhesselen]]
* [[Padhuis]]
* [[Pikveld]]
* [[Schimmelarij]]
* [[Schoonoord, Coevorden|Schoonoord]]
* [[Sleen]]
* [[Steenwijksmoer]]
* [[Stieltjeskanaal]]
* [[Valsteeg]]
* [[Veenhuizen, Coevorden|Veenhuizen]]
* [[Vlieghuis]]
* [[Vossebelt]]
* [[Wachtum]]
* [[Weijerswold]]
* [[Wezup]]
* [[Wezuperbrug]]
* [[Zweeloo]]
* [[Zwinderen]]
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==International relations==
Coevorden is [[Twin towns and sister cities|twinned]] with:
[[File:Station coevorden.JPG|190px|thumb|Coevorden Station]]
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* {{flagicon|GER}} [[Nordhorn]], [[Lower Saxony]], Germany, since 1963
* {{flagicon|BLR}} [[Brest, Belarus|Brest]], [[Belarus]], since 2011<ref>{{cite web|url=http://netherlands.mfa.gov.by/eng/news/~page__m12=6~news__m12=328710 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121128000205/http://netherlands.mfa.gov.by/eng/news/~page__m12=6~news__m12=328710 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-11-28 |title=Embassy of the Republic of Belarus in the Kingdom of the Netherlands - News of the Embassy |publisher=Netherlands.mfa.gov.by |date=2011-05-16 |access-date=2013-03-26 }}</ref>
* {{flagicon|UKR}} [[Chuhuiv]], [[Kharkiv Oblast]], Ukraine, since 2025
|}

== Transportation ==
There are two railway stations in the municipality:
* [[Coevorden railway station]]
* [[Dalen railway station]]

== Notable people ==
* [[Johannes Benedictus van Heutsz]] (1851-1924). Gouverneur-generaal (1904-09), a Dutch military officer and governor general of the [[Dutch East Indies]] in 1904
* [[Albert Bouwers]] (1893 in Dalen – 1972) a Dutch optical engineer, worked with X-Rays
* [[Relus ter Beek]] (1944 in Coevorden – 2008) a Dutch politician
* [[Tim de Zeeuw]] (born 1956 in Sleen) a Dutch astronomer specializing in the galaxies
* [[Thijs Berman]] (born 1957 in Coevorden) a former journalist, a Dutch politician and a [[Member of the European Parliament]]
* [[Herman von Hebel]] (born 1961 in Coevorden) was a Registrar of the [[International Criminal Court]]
* [[Maxim Februari]] (born 1963 in Coevorden) a Dutch writer, philosopher and columnist
* [[Joël Voordewind]] (born 1965 in Sleen) a Dutch politician
* Don Pepijn Schipper (born 1980 in Coevorden) stage name [[Don Diablo]] is a Dutch DJ, record producer, musician and songwriter of [[electronic dance music]]
* [[Mark-Jan Fledderus]] (born 1982 in Coevorden) a Dutch retired footballer with 321 caps

==See also==
*{{section link|George Vancouver|Origins of the family name}}
*[[Fantasy Gardens]], a replica of Coevorden Castle donated to Richmond, British Columbia for the [[Expo 86]]

== Gallery ==
<gallery mode=packed>
File:Coevorden Wilhelminastraat 2b Sint-Willibrordeuskerk.jpg|Coevorden Wilhelminastraat, Sint-Willibrordeus church
File:Kasteel coevorden.jpg|Coevorden Castle
File:Gracht bij Van Heutszpark.jpg|Moat at the Van Heutszpark
File:Coevorden, Netherlands - panoramio (15).jpg|Coevorden city hall
</gallery>

== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://www.coevorden.nl/}}

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{{Geographic location
|Centre    = Coevorden
|North     = [[Aa en Hunze]]
|Northeast = [[Borger-Odoorn]]
|East      = [[Emmen, Netherlands|Emmen]]
|Southeast = [[Emlichheim (Samtgemeinde)|Emlichheim]]{{space}}([[Germany|DE]]-[[Lower Saxony|NI]])
|South     = 
|Southwest = [[Hardenberg]]{{space}}([[Overijssel|OV]])
|West      = [[Hoogeveen]]
|Northwest = [[Midden-Drenthe]]
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{{Drenthe Province}}
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[[Category:Municipalities of Drenthe]]
[[Category:Populated places in Drenthe]]
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