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Breukeleveen

hamlet in Wijdemeren, Netherlands

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ2112917
Source-derived summary

Breukeleveen is a hamlet in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is in the municipality of Wijdemeren, and lies southwest of Loosdrecht.

The hamlet consists of a single street between two lakes. At the north end, it borders the hamlet of Muyeveld, and on the south end it borders Tienhoven, Stichtse Vecht, in the province of Utrecht.

The hamlet is named after the nearby town of Breukelen.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Breukeleveen” is hamlet in Wijdemeren, Netherlands. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Breukeleveen, hamlet and Wijdemeren, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 68-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Breukeleveen, hamlet and Wijdemeren is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Breukeleveen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.