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De Wolden
De Wolden () is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the northeastern Netherlands in the province of Drenthe. Population centres Topography ''Dutch topographic map of the municipality of De Wolden, June 2015'' Notable people * Jan Evertsen Cloppenburgh (1571 in Ruinen – 1648) a Dutch publisher during the Dutch Golden Age * Steven van Voorhees (1600 in Hees – 1684) an early Dutch settler in America * Henrik Rysensteen, Henrik Ruse, Baron of Rysensteen (1624 in Ruinen - 1679) a Dutch officer and fortification engineer * Hendrikje Doelen (1784 in Oosterwijk – 1847) a Dutch serial killer * Jan Arend Godert de Vos van Steenwijk II (1818 in De Wijk – 1905) a Dutch politician and president of the Senate (Netherlands), senate 1874/1880 * Jan Hendrik de Boer (1899 in Ruinen – 1971) a Dutch physicist and chemist * Jan Vayne (1966 in Zuidwolde) a Dutch pianist * Korie Homan (born 1986 in de Wijk) a Dutch former wheelchair tennis player and gold medallist at t ...
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List Of Municipalities Of The Netherlands
Since 1 January 2023, there have been 342 regular municipalities ( ; Grammatical number#Overview, sing.  ) and three Caribbean Netherlands, special municipalities ( ) in the Netherlands. The latter is the status of three of the six island territories that make up the Dutch Caribbean. Municipalities are the second-level administrative division, or public body (Netherlands), public bodies (), in the Netherlands and are subdivisions of their respective provinces of the Netherlands, provinces. Their duties are delegated to them by the Cabinet of the Netherlands, central government and they are ruled by a municipal council (Netherlands), municipal council that is elected every four years. Municipal merger (politics), mergers have reduced the total number of municipalities by two-thirds since the first official boundaries were created in the mid 19th century. Municipalities themselves are informally subdivided into districts and neighbourhoods for administrative and statistical ...
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