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History Museum Attractions In Gorinchem

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Gorinchem , also called Gorkum , is a city and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of 21.93 km2 of which 3.01 km2 is water. It had a population of 36,233 in 2017. The municipality of Gorinchem also includes the population centre of Dalem.
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  • 1. Hendrick Hamel Museum Gorinchem
    Hendrick Hamel was the first Westerner to provide a first hand account of Joseon Korea. After spending thirteen years there, he wrote Hamel's Journal and a Description of the Kingdom of Korea, 1653-1666, which was subsequently published in 1668.Hendrick Hamel was born in Gorinchem, Netherlands. In 1650, he sailed to the Dutch East Indies where he found work as a bookkeeper with the Dutch East India Company . In 1653, while sailing to Japan on the ship “De Sperwer” , Hamel and thirty-five other crewmates survived a deadly shipwreck on Jeju Island in South Korea. After spending close to a year on Jeju in the custody of the local prefect, the men were taken to Seoul, the capital of Joseon Korea, in June, 1655, where King Hyojong was on the throne. As was customary treatment of foreigners ...
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  • 2. Gorcums Museum Gorinchem
    The Martyrs of Gorkum were a group of 19 Dutch Catholic clerics and friars who were hanged on 9 July 1572 in the town of Brielle by militant Dutch Calvinists during the 16th century religious wars—specifically, the Dutch Revolt against Spanish rule, which developed into the Eighty Years' War.
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