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ID: 7003614
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Record Type: administrative |
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Drenthe (province) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 52 50 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 52.8330 decimal degrees |
| Long: 006 35 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 6.5830 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located in NE Nederland, drained by numerous shallow streams and canals; contains many megalithic funerary monuments or hunebedden ("huns' graves"); invaded by Saxons 5th cen.; ruled by Frankish and German kings, bishop of Utrecht (1046-1522), then Hapsburgs. |
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| Drenthe (preferred,C,V,Dutch,U)
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| Provincie Drenthe (NA,V,Dutch,U)
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| Drente (C,V,Dutch,U)
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| Drent (NA,V,Dutch,U)
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| Drenthe, Provincie (NA,V,Dutch,U)
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| NL01 (NA,V,FIPS,Dutch,U)
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| province (preferred, C) |
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since 1796 |
| first level subdivision (C) |
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