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Kleve in KLE
Location of Kleve in the Kleve Rural District, and in North Rhine-Westphalia
Flagge Kleve
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DEU Kleve COA
Coat of arms

Kleve (or Cleves in English) is the capital of the Kleve Rural District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It had about 50,000 people in 2016.

It was also the capital of the Duchy of Cleves (disestablished in 1795).

Kleve lies on the Rhine River and borders the Netherlands.

Partly on Kleve territory lies the Klever Reichswald, an ancient forest dating from the Middle Ages.

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  • Cleve (Merian)

    Cleves in the 17th century

  • De Kleefse tuinen Die Gärten von Kleve 3

    Mid 17th century Forest Garden

  • Cleve Stadt und Hafen (um 1895)

    City and port of Kleve (c. 1895)

  • The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 B14673

    British infantry advance through bombed-out Kleve, February 1945

  • Schwanenburg Castle Kleve, Kleef, Zwanenburcht, Шваненбург (Клеве)

    Schwanenburg Castle

  • De Kleefse tuinen Die Gärten von Kleve 5

    Forest Garden

  • Haus Koekkoek Barend Cornelis Koekkoek Kleef Kleve Cleves

    Museum Haus Koekkoek

See also

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