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Bovensmilde
Sign in to saveBovensmilde is a village in the Netherlands' province of Drenthe. It is a part of the municipality of Midden-Drenthe, and lies about southwest of Assen.
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Place details
- Locality
- Bovensmilde
- Region
- Drenthe
- Country
- Nederland
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
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- Bovensmilde
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- nl
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- Clergy house and church in Bovensmilde
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- The town centre (dark green) and the statistical district (light green) of Bovensmilde in the municipality of Midden-Drenthe.
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- Netherlands Drenthe#Netherlands
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- left
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- Location in the Netherlands
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Netherlands
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Drenthe
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Midden-Drenthe
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Bovensmilde is a village in the Netherlands' province of Drenthe. It is a part of the municipality of Midden-Drenthe, and lies about southwest of Assen.
== History == The village was first mentioned in 1847 as Boven-Smilde (literally: Upper-Smilde), and refers to north-eastern part of the peat excavation of Smilde. Bovensmilde is a linear settlement which started as a peat excavation village along the . It was sometimes referred to as Nieuw-Smilde (New Smilde).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bovensmilde” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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