Tholen

<h2 id="population-centers">Population centers</h2>

<p>On the island <a href="/facts/Sint_Philipsland_(island)/B0QaKCe2">Sint Philipsland</a> there are three villages:
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<ul><li><a href="/facts/Sint_Philipsland_(village)/KNT0XWyH">Sint Philipsland</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Anna_Jacobapolder/mkewUla3">Anna Jacobapolder</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Sluis%2c_Tholen/4jNzQeHw">Sluis</a></li></ul>
<p>On the island Tholen there are seven population centers:
</p>

<ul><li><a href="/facts/Oud-Vossemeer/bjFjuRVF">Oud-Vossemeer</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Poortvliet/GdJrFG7W">Poortvliet</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Scherpenisse/UL5KdGJL">Scherpenisse</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Sint-Annaland/QpbBQndf">Sint-Annaland</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Sint-Maartensdijk/PYTNEY2H">Sint-Maartensdijk</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Stavenisse/Wsn8SHQF">Stavenisse</a></li>
<li>Tholen</li></ul>
<h2 id="twin-town">Twin town</h2>
<p>Tholen is twinned with:
</p>
<table><tbody><tr><td><ul><li><a href="/facts/Poland/eXJ7fd0D"></a> <a href="/facts/I%25C5%2582awa/QbzvqLXX">Iława</a>, <a href="/facts/Poland/eXJ7fd0D">Poland</a></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table>
<h2 id="notable-people">Notable people</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Ghiselin_Danckerts/8Bfhtouk">Ghiselin Danckerts</a> (ca.1510 in Tholen – 1567) a Dutch composer, singer and music theorist</li>
<li>Sir <a href="/facts/Cornelius_Vermuyden/HabKIduX">Cornelius Vermuyden</a> 1595 in Sint-Maartensdijk – 1677) a Dutch engineer who introduced Dutch land reclamation methods to England</li>
<li>Colonel <a href="/facts/Bartholomew_Vermuyden/oMaRjIGm">Bartholomew Vermuyden</a>, cavalry officer in the <a href="/facts/New_Model_Army/HtVjUITx">New Model Army</a> during the English Civil War.</li>
<li>Maertin Cornelissen Geldersman, who bought a farm named Rosevelt ("rose field") in Tholen, which gave its name to his descendants Theodore Roosevelt, Eleanore Roosevelt, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Chris_Lanooy/SVQwVaUR">Chris Lanooy</a> (1881 in Sint-Annaland - 1948) a Dutch potter, designer, ceramist, painter, draftsman and sculptor, and he produced stained-glass art</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Leen_Quist/509q7je8">Leen Quist</a> (1942 in Sint Philipsland – 2014) a Dutch ceramist, liked a perfect finish and geometric (blue) lines</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Elly_Plooij-van_Gorsel/YWUR6qae">Elly Plooij-van Gorsel</a> (born 1947 in Tholen) a <a href="/facts/Member_of_the_European_Parliament/rvxcGboD">Member of the European Parliament</a></li></ul>
<h3>Sport</h3>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Keetie_van_Oosten-Hage/W12pBAbN">Keetie van Oosten-Hage</a> (born 1949 in  Sint-Maartensdijk) a Dutch former cyclist</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Deborah_Gravenstijn/2jXrndk5">Deborah Gravenstijn</a> (born 1974 in Tholen) a Dutch judoka and Captain in the <a href="/facts/Royal_Netherlands_Air_Force/ucC7edHw">Royal Netherlands Air Force</a>; bronze medallist at the <a href="/facts/2004_Summer_Olympics/7ljacRK4">2004 Summer Olympics</a> and  silver medallist <a href="/facts/2008_Summer_Olympics/G6YvB62G">2008 Summer Olympics</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="images">Images</h2>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for <i>Tholen</i>.

<ul><li> Media related to Tholen at Wikimedia Commons</li>
<li><a href="http://www.tholen.nl">Official website</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

<ol>
<li id="fn:1"><p>Hants, Patrick (2003). "Roosevelt". Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-508137-4. <a href="978-0-19-508137-4" target="_blank">978-0-19-508137-4</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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