page_title: Coevorden
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Coevorden / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Plan of fortress coevorden in the netherlandsNederlands: 17e eeuwse prent, geen auteursrechten meerDeutsch: Karte der Festung Coevorden (1647)
context_page_description: Coevorden is a city and municipality in the province of Drenthe, Netherlands. During the 1998 municipal reorganisation in the province, Coevorden merged with Dalen, Sleen, Oosterhesselen and Zweeloo, retaining its name. In August 2017, it had a population of 35,267.
context_section_description: Coevorden received city rights in 1408. It is the oldest city in the province of Drenthe.
  The city was captured from the Spanish in 1592 by a Dutch and English force under the command of  Maurice, Prince of Orange. The following year it was besieged by a Spanish force but the city held out until its relief in May 1594. Coevorden was then reconstructed in the early seventeenth century to an ideal city design, similar to Palmanova. The streets were laid out in a radial pattern within polygonal fortifications and extensive outer earthworks.
  The city of Coevorden may have indirectly given its name to the city of Vancouver, which is named after the 18th-century British explorer George Vancouver. The explorer's ancestors (and family name) may have originally come to England "from Coevorden" (van Coevorden > Vancoevorden > Vancouver). There is also a family of nobility with the surname van Coeverden, sometimes spelled with a K (as with Canadian kayaker Adam van Koeverden).
caption: Fortification plan of Coevorden, in Star fort style.
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