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Valkenswaard

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Country	Netherlands
Valkenswaard

Province	North Brabant
Area (2006)
- Municipality	56.44 km² (21.8 sq mi)
- Land	55.01 km² (21.2 sq mi)
- Water	1.44 km² (0.6 sq mi)
Population (1 January 2007)
- Municipality	30,865
- Density	561/km² (1,453/sq mi)
	Source: CBS, Statline.
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)

Valkenswaard (pronunciation (help·info)) is a municipality and a town in the southern Netherlands, in the province of Noord-Brabant. The municipality had 30,943 citizens (as of June 1, 2005) and spans an area of 56,50 square kilometers (1,15 of which water).

The name Valkenswaard stems from its history of falconers, who caught wild falcons there; valk is Dutch for "falcon". It lay on a route where falcons migrated south each year. In the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, Valkenswaardian falconers were active at many European courts, in which falconing was a beloved pastime. In the 19th and 20th century, a number of large cigar factories was founded in Valkenswaard, the two most renowned of which being Willem II and Hofnar ("court jester"). Valkenswaard's falcon-catching area has now been built over and falcons are no longer caught there.

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Bouke Beumer, politician
Caroline de Bruin, actress
Romé Fasol, mayor
Pieter van Geel, politician
Dominique van Hulst ("Do"), singer
Jan Tops, equestrian

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