Aalten

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Aalten
Image:LocatieAalten.png
Country	Netherlands
Province	Gelderland
Area	97.09 km²
- Land	96.57 km²
- Water	0.52 km²
Population (2006)	27,436
- Density	284/km²

Aalten (pronunciation (help·info)) is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands. The former municipality of Dinxperlo has been merged with Aalten on January 1, 2005.

[edit] Population centres

Aalten, Barlo, Bredevoort, Dale, Dinxperlo, Haart, Heurne, IJzerlo, 't Klooster and Lintelo.

[edit] Bredevoort

Bredevoort is a small town of about 1600 inhabitants, between Aalten and Winterswijk.

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Since 1993, Bredevoort presents itself as Bredevoort boekenstad (Bredevoort book town), after the examples of Hay-on-Wye in Wales and Redu in Belgium. There are now more than twenty second-hand book shops in the town.

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