TIEL  , a

town in the province of Gelderland,' Holland, pn the right bank of the Waal (here crossed by a pontoon bridge), 25 M. by rail west of Nijmwegen . Pop . (1900), 10,788 . It possesses fine streets and open places, but of its fortifications the Kleiberg Gate (1647) alone remains . The principal buildings are St Martin's church (15th century), the town hall, court-house and the historical castle of the family of van Arkel . In 1892 a harbour was built, but the shipping of Tiel is now chiefly confined to craft for inland navigation . It carries on a flourishing trade, especially in fruit, and is an important market for horses and cattle . It also manufactures agricultural implements, furniture, paper, tobacco, &c . Five miles W.N.W. of Tiel is the small town of Buren, which contains some interesting old houses and is an important market for horses . Buren was the seat of an independent lordship which is mentioned as early as 1152 . In later times it was held in fief, first from the dukes of Brabant, then from the dukes of Gelderland . In •1492 the emperor Charles V. raised it to a countship, and in 1551 it passed by marriage to Prince William of Orange Nassau .

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title is now sometimes used by the royal family of the Netherlands when travelling ihcog'-nito . The castle was destroyed in the beginning of. thee egith century, and the site of it is now marked by the park on the west side of the town . It contained not less than 170 apartments and was memorable for the imprisonment within its walls of Arnoud duke of Gelderland (d . 1473), and as the birth-place of Philip William of Orange in 1554 .