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Hello everyone, I was bored so I was thinking about a topic about the Netherlands, as I am a Dutchman. I'm from the city of Maastricht, the most southern city in the country. The Netherlands' geographic position, makes the country a distribution country. With the port of Rotterdam and Schiphol Airport, it's an economical strong country. In the 17th century, the country was one of the most important countries in the world, with some large trade cities as Amsterdam. In that time, Belgium was also a part of the Netherlands. Well, let's start with some pictures. I hope you all post pictures of this beautiful country. A map: Amsterdam, Damrak. Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands The ship Amsterdam, a replica of the old VOC-ship. Amsterdam skyline: Bikes: The Hague, binnenhof, the seat of gouvernment. The Hague skyline, with some important gouvernemental buildings. Rotterdam, Erasmus Bridge. Rotterdam skyline: The port of Rotterdam: Utrecht, 4th city of the country. A central situated city. Central station, the largest train station in the Netherlands (number of tracks) A polder: Maastricht, my home town and oldest town in the Netherlands. Windmills: Hope you liked it, and post your fave pics of the Netherlands! Take care, Justin aka Uumke

aaah I'm scared...Go holland... but in my betting competition have 2-0 for Italy...Go Italy yes, van der Sar vs. Buffon will be cool....but the dutch defense sucks...

The Story of Den Minerwal 10.000 years ago, the first men settled near a river. They lived of the animals in the forest, and of the fish in the river. The people lived on the west-bank of the river, and it was very difficult to cross. After 1000 years, the first people crossed the river, but they never came back. 2000 years ago, the romans came. They built walls on the west bank, because they were the enemys of the people on the east bank. They found precious metals in the water of the river, so they called the river "Mineralis". The metals were shipped to the port or laborated in the town. There was a big market in the town, were cereals and metals were traded. On the east-bank, the kings of Servatius built walls to. The romans didn't like this and they declared war to the town on the east bank. They called the town Brutopolis, named after Brutus who killed Ceasar. The romans called their own town ; Mineralopolis. Because of the trade, it was a rich town. 1200 years ago, the dukes of Andantus took over Mineralopolis. Since then, the town was called Den Minerwal. They built defense walls, a church and a watch tower. They were still in war with Brutostadt, and after every attack, they stole everything in this town, so they became rich,. Brutostadt was very poor, the only "farm" was in the centre of the town. A lot of people died because of a lack of food and diseases. They didn't have any money to bury the dead people outside the town. So, here is: Den Minerwal: and Brutostadt: I hope you like it. The next update will give you an image of the wars and city expansion. Greetzzzz, Justin a.k.a. Uumke

Replies! Anarchy0029: Thank you! Tonight there will be an update about the jailbreak and the growth of Brutostadt. Joetropian1: Thanks! I agree..they are great but my pc is sooo slow... Panthersimcity4: Thanks,,I love it too Tonight: Jailbreak and expansion!

Replies anarchy0029; Thank you!~I'll keep up the historical things! jacqulina: Thank you, your comments are allways motivating! Callbat; you're right, I forgot about it..but I made these pictures when the city was young,,,now it isn't, so I can'make new ones Schulmanator: thanks,,I'm inspired by Schulmania Smarty218: thank you! I love positive comments Nihonkaranws: thanks! yes it does,,at this moment of the CJ but time elapses mizellchris: Thanks! Kiwi n grapes: Thank you very much Next time: Jailbreak and welfare in Brutostadt

wow! looks great.I wish I could create something like that!

Teaser: It's the jail of Den Minerwal, were criminals are jailed. And yes, inhabitants of Brutostadt are also seen as criminals! I'll post replies next time, I did it one minute ago but simtropolis didn't work that great.

I'll go with Maseriti! Love it...the quattroporte

Update 1 - War and expansion Hey everyone, thank you very much for your replies! Now I'm going to talk about a war, around 1450, between Den Minerwal and Brutostadt. Some people from Brutostadt were digging up gold and other metals from the river, but the people from Minerwal, especcialy the Duke, sir Jan Pieterszoon Coenen, didn't like this, so they decided to attack Brutopolis. They threw, with the help of catapults, some fire bombs. And this is the result: The biggest part of Brutostadt was burned down, but the church and the the monument were spared. All the money was taken away and many people died. But with financial help of Servatius, they rebuilt most of the city. They also built a city hall and defense walls. Now they're safe! At last! The cemetary has grown a lot, but the people of Brutopolis weren't allowed to built outside the walls. And what was Den Minerwal doing? They built a city hall, a monument for sir Jan Pieterszoon Coenen, extra defense walls,and a church, that also serves as a watch tower, to keep an eye on Brutostadt. And all that, built with help of the money of Brutstadt. Sorry for my bad english! I hope you all like it greeetzzzz,, Uumke

In my home town, maastricht they have to do this:" build a tunnel in stead of the N2 running straight trough this city with kilometes of tailback every day!

It looks greaT! fantastic work!

no, this won't work...visit a big city, big conurbation etc.. completely jammed. And some of those highways run trough such area's. Visit Holland in rush hour!

Maastricht, Capital of Limburg Hello everyone! This is going to be my first attempt to build a real-life city. I'm still downloading a lot of buildings, and I also need some batters who are prepared to bat some extraordinary buildings of the city. The town is my (almost) home town. Here some facts and pictures. Maastricht. This town is the Capital of Limburg, the most southern province of the Netherlands. It is also the most south city of the Netherlands. Around the year 0, the Romans built a bridge across the Maas river (la Meuse). After the collapse of this bridge,in the 13th century, it was replaced by the current st. Servaasbrug. Nowadays , Maastricht is a town with around 120.000 inhabitants, that's famous for it's "Maastricht treaty" , where plans of the Euro-currency were written down and signed. A lot of people also now it for it's TEFAF: the European fine arts fair. It's also a student city: It has an University, a conservatory, a theater academy and an arts-academy. It has a lot of squares too. Vrijthof is the most well known, where we can find the St. Johns church and the St. Servaaskerk, named after the sacred person that died in the town. Nowadays, there are a lot of modern buildings like the Bonnefanten museum, the Colonel and Leeuwenborgh college. It has a lot of traffic problems to: the A2 had a lot of tailback problems and the bridges are mostly congested to. The town is sometimes called "Petit Paris" as it looks very bourgundian and the way of living is also very bourgundian. Well enough. Some pictures: the Market, with the city hall ( I need batters) Vrijthof: City walls: The station: The colonel: The bridge: Bonnefantenmuseumneed batters!! And: Now I"m going to download a lot, to show you some of my work later! Thanks for watching, take care, Justin A.K.A. Uumke

Hey people! thank you for all your interest and replies! but there won't be any updates the next 3 weeks due to holiday and relation problems. The same counts for my Heuvelderland cj, and my nieuw-Sequovère is finished. take care, justin a.k.a. Uumke

I love trains....and those too!

wow alex great work you've done and richard...nice update!

Introduction. Hello everyone. I've got Maastricht, for some real life, I've got Nieuw-Sequovère, that's Dutch-based, and now I'm going to start an CJ inspired by my home area, Limburg. I call it Heuvelderland, that means something like "hilly country". You could call it an irrealistic Maastricht, or Hilly Holland. I'm going to make it very burgundian: so a lot of French aspects here! And....some hills! So, here are the first pics: Some stats: Marskmonden-37.600-13.400-6.600 Umandië-16.700-6.500-4.850 Hartke-8.675-2.650-3.400 Huynstadt-8.650-1.500-2.650 Rechterveld-1.350-7.500-1.050 See you next time

That sunken avenue makes me think of the B1 in Vienna! I love it!

wow looks great!

wow looks great schulmanator! as always!

wow very realistic,,,the last one makes me think of the Bijlmer-disaster in Amsterdam! so realistic!

Replies & Teasers Cleaner475: Thank you very much my friend....stay tuned! Granto93: Thank you....I hope to make it better than the other Cj's! Jacqulina: thank you my friend! Take care Amerikaner: thank you, but I'm currently not working on the other Cj's! Oh yeah...and it are 2x1 paris row houses and some 1x1 rowhouses ky72x: thank you...i hope you keep liking it! Petriknl: thank you my friend, and I will certainly not give up Maastricht! simfan34: thank you my friend, your Cj rocks! Schulmanater: thank you schulmanator! I hope you keep liking it! Aceofspades: thank you, on the bottom you've got some teasers! manman99: thank you, I hope you keep liking it! Teasers!!!!!!!!!!!

thank you all! I'll soon post replies and some teasers!

good update... I still can't get those seawalls right when i build them myself...how do you do that krio? Looks good

wow looks great I love it!