Waskemeer
Encyclopedia
Waskemeer is a village
of about 870 inhabitants in the municipality of Ooststellingwerf
in the east of Friesland
in the Netherlands
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The village lies in the north of Ooststellingwerf. It is named after a pond 2 km to the west called Waskmar, which in turn means wash-lake as it was used to wash sheep.
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...
of about 870 inhabitants in the municipality of Ooststellingwerf
Ooststellingwerf
Ooststellingwerf is a municipality in the province of Friesland in the northern Netherlands.It is one of the municipalities of Friesland, where the spoken language is not West Frisian; instead, Stellingwerfs, a dialect of Dutch Low Saxon, is spoken here....
in the east of Friesland
Friesland
Friesland is a province in the north of the Netherlands and part of the ancient region of Frisia.Until the end of 1996, the province bore Friesland as its official name. In 1997 this Dutch name lost its official status to the Frisian Fryslân...
in the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
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The village lies in the north of Ooststellingwerf. It is named after a pond 2 km to the west called Waskmar, which in turn means wash-lake as it was used to wash sheep.