Baarle-Nassau

English Proper noun en town/and/municipality in p:suf/North Brabant c/Netherlands adjacent to x/Baarle-Hertog x/Belgium. Usage notes Baarle-Nassau is unusual in having 22 exclaves of Baarle-Hertog within it, of varying sizes: see Wikipedia for details. Dutch Alternative forms nl Baol dialect form Etymology Potentially attested as barle in 1237, attested with certainty as barle in 1260. Compound of a toponym derived from nl dum baer barren, infertile and nl lo light forest suffixed with nl Nassau. The element nl Nassau was added to distinguish the settlement from nl Baarle-Hertog. Compare nl Baal, nl Baarlo, nl Bahr, nl Barlo and nl Hoog-Baarlo. Pronunciation nl /ˈbaːr.lə ˈnɑ.sɑu̯/ nl Nl-Baarle-Nassau.ogg nl Baar le- Nas sau Proper noun n nl village/and/municipality p/North Brabant c/Netherlands nl Smokkelgat<qq:Carnival nickname> nl Boschhoven Castelré Driehuizen Eikelenbosch Gorpeind Groot-Bedaf Heesboom Heikant Het Goordonk Hoogeind Huisvennen Keizershoek Klein-Bedaf Liefkenshoek Loveren Maaijkant Nieuwe Strumpt Nijhoven Oude Strumpt Reth Reuth Schaluinen Tommel Veldbraak Voske Ulicoten Derived terms nl Baarlenaar nl Baarles References