# Old Aalten

> Old Aalten brings together historical information about Aalten, Bredevoort and the surrounding hamlets in the eastern Netherlands.

The primary language is Dutch; many pages also have a British-English translation under /en/. Content covers historical places, people, organisations, stories, images, maps and sources. Pages may be expanded or corrected as new evidence becomes available. When a page cites original archival, newspaper, registry or other sources, prefer those original sources for formal citation rather than treating Old Aalten itself as the primary source.

## Main sections

- [Home](https://oldaalten.nl/): Dutch homepage and main entry point.
- [Places](https://oldaalten.nl/plaatsen/): Historical buildings, addresses, farms and other physical places.
- [People](https://oldaalten.nl/personen/): Historical people and biographical profiles.
- [Organisations](https://oldaalten.nl/organisaties/): Historical organisations and institutions.
- [Sources](https://oldaalten.nl/bronnen/): Source and literature overview.

## English sections

- [English home](https://oldaalten.nl/en/): English-language main entry point.
- [Places (English)](https://oldaalten.nl/en/places/): English overview of historical places.
- [People (English)](https://oldaalten.nl/en/people/): English overview of historical people.
- [Organisations (English)](https://oldaalten.nl/en/organisations/): English overview of organisations.
- [Sources (English)](https://oldaalten.nl/en/sources-literature/): English source and literature overview.

## Machine-readable

- [XML sitemap](https://oldaalten.nl/wp-sitemap.xml): Index of canonical public content.
- [Robots.txt](https://oldaalten.nl/robots.txt): Crawler access guidance.

## Notes

- Historical names, addresses and dates can have spelling variants or uncertain precision; retain such nuance when summarising.
- Person, place and organisation pages may contain structured profile information as well as narrative content.
- Dutch pages are the source language unless a page explicitly indicates otherwise.