Egmont
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Egmont or Egmond may refer to:
- Egmond familyEgmond familyThe Egmond or Egmont family is named after the Dutch town of Egmond, province of Noord Holland, and played an important role in the Netherlands during the Middle Ages....
(often spelled "Egmont"), an influential Dutch family, lords of the town of Egmond - Egmond (municipality), a town in North Holland, the Netherlands
- Lamoral, Count of EgmontLamoral, Count of EgmontLamoral, Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavere was a general and statesman in the Habsburg Netherlands just before the start of the Eighty Years' War, whose execution helped spark the national uprising that eventually led to the independence of the Netherlands.The Count of Egmont headed one of the...
(1522–1568), the best known member of the Egmont family - Egmont (play)Egmont (play)Egmont is a play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which he completed in 1788. Its dramaturgical structure, like that of his earlier 'Storm and Stress' play Götz von Berlichingen , is heavily influenced by Shakespearean tragedy; in contrast, however, to the earlier work, the portrait in Egmont of the...
, a play by Goethe, about Lamoral, Count of Egmond - Egmont (Beethoven)Egmont (Beethoven)Egmont, Op. 84, by Ludwig van Beethoven, is a set of incidental music pieces for the 1787 play of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It consists of an overture followed by a sequence of nine additional pieces for soprano, male narrator and full symphony orchestra...
, the overture and incidental music by Beethoven composed for the play - Egmont pactEgmont pactThe Egmont pact of 1977 is an agreement on the reform of Belgium into a federal state and on the relations between the linguistic communities in the country...
, a Belgian political agreement (1977) - Egmont PalaceEgmont PalaceThe Egmont Palace is a large mansion at the Wolstraat / Rue aux Laines and the Kleine Zavel / Petit Sablon Square in Brussels, Belgium...
, in Brussels, Belgium - Egmont IslandsEgmont IslandsThe Egmont Islands or Egmont Atoll, also known as Six Iles, is an uninhabited atoll under British rule. They are one of the few emerged coral atolls that make up the Chagos Archipelago, British Indian Ocean Territory....
, a group of Indian Ocean islands, part of the Chagos Archipelago - Egmont PublishingEgmont PublishingThe Egmont Group is a media corporation founded and rooted in Copenhagen, Denmark. The business area of Egmont has traditionally been magazine publishing but has over the years evolved to comprise media generally....
, a Scandinavian media group, founded in 1878 - Mount Egmont is the alternative name for Mount Taranaki in New Zealand
- Egmont National ParkEgmont National ParkEgmont National Park is located south of New Plymouth, close to the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is named after the mountain which dominates its environs, which itself was named by Captain Cook after John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont, the First Lord of the Admiralty who...
, a national park at Mount Taranaki - Egmont (New Zealand electorate)Egmont (New Zealand electorate)Egmont is a former New Zealand electorate, in south Taranaki. It existed from 1871 to 1978.-Geographic coverage:Egmont is the old name of the mountain that is the Taranaki landmark of Mount Taranaki. A village north of the mountain is also called Egmont....
, a former electoral district in Taranaki, New Zealand - Egmont VillageEgmont VillageEgmont Village is a settlement in Taranaki, New Zealand. State Highway 3 runs through it. New Plymouth is 12 km to the north-west, and Inglewood is 6 km to the south-east...
, a village north of Mount Taranaki
- Egmont National Park
- Egmont (electoral district)Egmont (electoral district)Egmont is a federal electoral district in Prince Edward Island, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968. Its population in 2001 was 35,208.-Demographics:Ethnic groups: 98.0% White, 1.4% Native Canadian...
, a Federal Canadian electoral district - Egmont GroupEgmont GroupThe Egmont Group is a media corporation founded and rooted in Copenhagen, Denmark. The business area of Egmont has traditionally been magazine publishing but has over the years evolved to comprise media generally....
(Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units) - Egmont Key State ParkEgmont Key State ParkEgmont Key State Park is a Florida State Park located on Egmont Key, at the mouth of Tampa Bay, in the state of Florida, United States. It lies southwest of Fort DeSoto Park. It can only be reached by boat or ferry. The Egmont Key Lighthouse and the ruins of Fort Dade, a Spanish-American War era...
, located in Florida, US - Egmont, British Columbia, a town in British Columbia, Canada
- HMS EgmontHMS EgmontSeveral ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Egmont:, a 74-gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1768, and broken up in 1799., another 74-gun third rate ship of the line, launched in 1810 and sold in 1875....
, the name of two ships of the royal Navy - Egmont H. Petersens Kollegium, a Dormitory in Copenhagen
- Lake Egmont, Nova Scotia