Twente
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 Overijssel
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Area - land - water |
1,503.77 km 2 1,488.19 km 2 15.58 km 2 |
| Residents | 627,592 (May 31, 2018) |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 19 ′ N , 6 ° 46 ′ E |
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| prefix | 053, 0541, 0546, 0547, 0548, 074 |
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Twente ( Lower Saxony Tweante ) was a Stadsregio the Netherlands around the cities of Almelo , Enschede and Hengelo . It bordered in the east on the Lower Saxony district of Grafschaft Bentheim and the North Rhine-Westphalian Münsterland ( district of Borken ) in the neighboring Federal Republic of Germany , all of which belong to the European region EUREGIO . The name of the region is derived from the Germanic Tubanten tribe who inhabited this region until the 4th century.
Twente is the south-easternmost region in the Overijssel province ; the second region in Overijssel is Salland .
The Twente region is an association of 14 municipalities in Twente, including Almelo , Borne , Dinkelland , Enschede , Hof van Twente , Haaksbergen , Hellendoorn , Hengelo , Losser , Oldenzaal , Rijssen , Tubbergen , Twenterand and Wierden .
In Twente a variation of the Lower Saxon language in the Netherlands is maintained.
See also
Institutions named after the region
- Enschede Airport Twente
- FC Twente , football club in Enschede
- University of Twente
- De Hel van Twente , classic bike
- Rijksmuseum Twenthe
literature
- Gerard Kokhuis: De geschiedenis van Twente. Van prehistory dead . Van de Berg, Almere, 3rd, expanded and revised edition 2012, ISBN 978-90-5512-383-4 (first edition by Twente Publicaties, Hengelo 1982).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek , accessed on July 1, 2018 (Dutch)