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    Beerenburg are: Boomsma (Leeuwarden), Bokma, Sonnema (Dokkum), Weduwe Joustra (Sneek), Plantinga (Bolsward), all from Friesland, and Hooghoudt Kalmoes, from...
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    with villages in English speaking countries. The Dutch word for city is stad (plural: steden). The intermediate category of town does not exist in Dutch...
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  • Murk van Phelsum (category People from Sneek)
    Murk van Phelsum (6 August 1732, probably Leeuwarden - 21 August 1779, Sneek) was a Dutch physician, who was the namesake for the lizard genus Phelsuma...
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    in his bed at Grootzand 12 in the Frisian city of Sneek on 28 October 1520. Pier is buried in Sneek in the 15th-century Groote Kerk (English: Great Church;...
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    the province of Friesland in the northern Netherlands, namely Leeuwarden, Sneek, Bolsward, Franeker, Dokkum, Harlingen, Stavoren, and to some extent in...
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  • also hit Friesland and the German Wadden Sea region. The Frisian town of Sneek reported a tripling of the number of deaths in 1826 as compared to previous...
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    hamlets Friese Buurt and De Kooy. The major areas of Den Helder are the Stad binnen de Linie (city within the city's defence line), Nieuw-Den Helder,...
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  • grew worse. He retired to his farm where he died in 1520. He was buried in Sneek in the 15th-century Groote Kerk (also called the Martinikerk). Jelckama...
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    Snapshot Netherlands (includes Leeuwarden, Harlingen, Hindeloopen, Makkum, Sneek and Groningen). Rough Guides Limited. 25 April 2013. pp. 29–36. ISBN 978-1-4093-3543-6...
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    present mill was originally a polder mill built in the 18th century at Sneek, where it was known as Molen 't Op. It had drained the Oppenhuisterpolder...
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