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Gieten
Sign in to saveGieten is a village in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It is a part of the municipality of Aa en Hunze, and lies about 14 km east of Assen.
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Place details
- Locality
- Gieten
- Region
- Drenthe
- Country
- Nederland
- Population
- 4,885
- Timezone
- Europe/Amsterdam
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Key facts
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- Gieten
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- Village
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- nl
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- Zicht op Gieten vanaf de Hondsrugweg
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- Gieten wapen.svg
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- The village centre (dark green) and the statistical district (light green) of Gieten in the municipality of Aa en Hunze.
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- Netherlands Drenthe#Netherlands
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- Location in the Netherlands
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- Netherlands
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- Province
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Gieten is a village in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It is a part of the municipality of Aa en Hunze, and lies about 14 km east of Assen.
== History == The village was first mentioned in 1223 as Geten. The etymology is unclear. Gieten is an esdorp which developed in the Early Middle Ages on the Hondsrug as a satellite of Anloo. The village started to developed where the road from Groningen to Coevorden intersected with a road to Assen. The former village Bonnen was located to the east and contained the havezate Entinge from 1648 until its demolition in 1768.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gieten” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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