Apeldoorn is a municipality and a town in the central Netherlands. It is a regional centre. The western half of the municipality lies on the Veluwe ridge, the eastern half lies in the IJssel valley.

Population centres

Apeldoorn, Assel, Beekbergen, Beemte-Broekland, Engeland, Groenendaal, Hoenderloo, Hoog Soeren, Hooilanden, Klarenbeek, Lieren, Loenen, Nieuw-Milligen, Oosterhuizen, Radio Kootwijk, Uddel, Ugchelen, Wenum-Wiesel, Woudhuizen and Zilven.

The town of Apeldoorn

The oldest known reference to Apeldoorn, then called Appoldro, dates from the 8th century. The settlement came into being at the point where the old road from Amersfoort to Deventer crossed that from Arnhem to Zwolle. A 1740 map refers to it as Appeldoorn.

Between 1685 and 1686, the palace het Nieuwe Loo (now Het Loo) was built for then Stadtholder William III^{Official website}

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