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Utrecht
Utrecht
Utrecht is a city in the Netherlands.The name may also refer to:* Utrecht , of which Utrecht is the capital* Utrecht , including the city of Utrecht* Bishopric of Utrecht* Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht...

is a city in the Netherlands.

The name may also refer to:
  • Utrecht (province)
    Utrecht (province)
    Utrecht is the smallest province of the Netherlands in terms of area, and is located in the centre of the country. It is bordered by the Eemmeer in the north, Gelderland in the east, the river Rhine in the south, South Holland in the west, and North Holland in the northwest...

    , of which Utrecht is the capital
  • Utrecht (agglomeration)
    Utrecht (agglomeration)
    The city of Utrecht and the surrounding cities, villages, and townships form an agglomeration in the middle of The Netherlands. It is located entirely in the province of Utrecht, and is the eastern part of so-called North Wing the larger Randstad urban area....

    , including the city of Utrecht
  • Bishopric of Utrecht
  • Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht
    The Archdiocese of Utrecht is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the Netherlands. The archdiocese is the metropolitan for 6 suffragans, the dioceses of Breda, Groningen-Leeuwarden, Haarlem-Amsterdam, Roermond, Rotterdam, and 's-Hertogenbosch....

  • Utrecht, KwaZulu-Natal
    Utrecht, KwaZulu-Natal
    Utrecht is a town in the foothills of the Balele Mountains, in the northwestern corner of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Newcastle, Kwazulu-Natal's third-largest urban center, is 50 km from Utrecht...

    , a city in South Africa


It may also refer to:
  • Union of Utrecht
    Union of Utrecht
    The Union of Utrecht was a treaty signed on 23 January 1579 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, unifying the northern provinces of the Netherlands, until then under the control of Habsburg Spain....

    , treaty signed in 1579, regarded as the foundation of the Dutch Republic
  • Union of Utrecht (Old Catholic), a federation of Old Catholic Churches
  • Treaty of Utrecht
    Treaty of Utrecht
    The Treaty of Utrecht, which established the Peace of Utrecht, comprises a series of individual peace treaties, rather than a single document, signed by the belligerents in the War of Spanish Succession, in the Dutch city of Utrecht in March and April 1713...

    , series of treaties signed in 1713, helped ending the War of the Spanish Succession
    War of the Spanish Succession
    The War of the Spanish Succession was fought among several European powers, including a divided Spain, over the possible unification of the Kingdoms of Spain and France under one Bourbon monarch. As France and Spain were among the most powerful states of Europe, such a unification would have...

  • Utrecht University
    Utrecht University
    Utrecht University is a university in Utrecht, Netherlands. It is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe. Established March 26, 1636, it had an enrollment of 29,082 students in 2008, and employed 8,614 faculty and staff, 570 of which are full professors....

  • FC Utrecht, a Dutch Association football club
  • Utrecht Art Supplies, a vendor of fine art materials, based in New Jersey
  • Utrecht Caravaggism, a group of painters of the Baroque school in the early part of the seventeenth century
  • Utrecht Centraal railway station
    Utrecht Centraal railway station
    Utrecht Centraal is the central railway station for the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands. It is the largest railway station in the Netherlands in terms of size, with fourteen platforms With Utrecht being located centrally in the Netherlands, Utrecht Centraal is also the largest station in terms...

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