People born in Goes, Zeeland, The Netherlands

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Goes is a municipality and a city in the southwestern Netherlands on Zuid-Beveland, in the province of Zeeland. The town of Goes has approximately 27,000 residents. Zuid-Beveland is a former island, now peninsula, crossed by the Canal through Zuid-Beveland on the west and the Scheldt-Rhine Canal on the east.

It consists of four municipalities:

1. Borsele
2. Goes
3. Kapelle
4. Reimerswaal

Goes was founded in the 10th century on the edge of a creek: de Korte Gos (the Short Gos). The village grew fast, and in the early 12th century it had a market square and a church devoted to Mary Magdalene.

Links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goes

Some well known people born in Goes

Tinkerbell AKA Katinka Simonse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinkebell

Roel Felius http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1492684/bio

Hannes Minnaar http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3942769/

Frans de Munck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_de_Munck

Theo Rietkerk https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Rietkerk