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Wapse
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- Wapse
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- Village
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- Farm in Wapse
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- Netherlands
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- Drenthe
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- The village centre (dark green) and the statistical district (light green) of Wapse in the municipality of Westerveld.
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- Location in province of Drenthe in the Netherlands
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Wapse is a village in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It is a part of the municipality of Westerveld, and lies about 21 km northwest of Hoogeveen.
The village was first mentioned in 1384 as "Johanni de Wapse". The etymology is unknown. Wapse is a circular esdorp from the Early Middle Ages. There used to be five hamlets around the central communal pasture.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wapse” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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