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Provincie Groningen
Province of Groningen
Coat of arms of Groningen
Flag Coat of arms
South Holland North Holland Friesland Groningen Drenthe Flevoland Overijssel Gelderland Utrecht Limburg North Brabant Zeeland
Map: Province of Groningen in the NetherlandsAbout this image
Capital Groningen
Queen's Commissioner Max van den Berg
Religion (1999) Protestant 29%
Catholic 7%
Area
 • Land
 • Water		  
2,336 km² (8th)
623 km²
Population (2006)
 • Total
 • Density
574,042 (9th)
246/km² (9th)
Anthem Grunnens Laid
ISO NL-GR
Official website www.provinciegroningen.nl

Amsterdam Almelo Almere Amersfoort Arnhem Assen Breda Den Haag Delft Delfzijl Den Bosch Den Helder Dordrecht Enchede Haarlem Hilversum Maastricht Middelburg Zwolle Lelystad Leiden Utrecht Katwijk Nijmegen Eindhoven Vlissingen Rotterdam Leeuwarden Heerenveen Groningen (city) Emmen Almelo Apeldoorn Alkmaar Zaanstad Tilburg Venlo Heerlen Drenthe Flevoland Friesland Gelderland Groningen Limburg North Brabant North Holland Overijssel South Holland Utrecht Zeeland

Map of the Netherlands, linking to the province pages; the red dots mark the capitals of the provinces and the black dots other notable cities or towns.
Map of the Netherlands, linking to the province pages; the red dots mark the capitals of the provinces and the black dots other notable cities or towns. The Flag of Groningen was adopted in the year 1950, and is based upon the coats-of-arms of the City of Groningen and the Ommelanden A Dutch province represents the administrative layer in between the national government and the local municipalities having the responsibility for matters of subnational or regional Groningen is the capital city of the province of Groningen in the Netherlands. The King's Commissioner (Commissaris van de Koning is the head of a Province in the Netherlands, who is chairman of both the Provinciale Staten (PS the Margrietus Johannes (Max van den Berg (born March 22, 1946) is a Dutch Politician and member of the Dutch Labour Party. A religion is a set of Tenets and practices often centered upon specific Supernatural and moral claims about Reality, the Cosmos Protestantism refers to the forms of Christian faith and practice that originated in the 16th century Protestant Reformation. Catholic is an Adjective derived from the Greek adjective '' / 'katholikos' meaning "whole" or "complete". Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. See also Provinces of the Netherlands Population figures are 2004 estimates In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology The density of a material is defined as its Mass per unit Volume: \rho = \frac{m}{V} Different materials usually have different See also Provinces of the Netherlands Population figures are 2004 estimates See also Provinces of the Netherlands Population figures are 2004 estimates The term anthem means either a specific form of Anglican church music (in Music theory and religious contexts or more generally a song (or composition of The Grönnens Laid (Song of Groningen is the anthem of the Groningen province of the Netherlands. ISO 3166-2 is the second part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO

Groningen pronunciation (help·info) is the northeasternmost province of the Netherlands. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands In the east it borders the German state of Niedersachsen (districts of Leer and Emsland), in the south Drenthe, in the west Friesland and in the north the Wadden Sea. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Lower Saxony ( German: Niedersachsen ch is pronounced before an s --> lies in north-western Germany and is second Leer is a district ( Landkreis) in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the northwest and clockwise the City of Emden, the Landkreis Emsland is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany named after the river Ems. Drenthe is a province of the Netherlands, located in the north-east of the country Friesland ( West Frisian: Fryslân, Dutch Friesland) is a province in the north of the Netherlands and part of the bigger region known The Wadden Sea ( Vadehavet, Waddenzee, Wattenmeer, Low German: Wattensee, West Frisian: Waadsee The capital of the province is the city of Groningen. Groningen is the capital city of the province of Groningen in the Netherlands.

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Geography

Land use in Groningen is mainly agricultural, it has a large natural gas field near Slochteren. Oil and Natural gas are produced by the same geological process anaerobic Decay of Organic matter deep under the Earth's surface Slochteren ( is a Municipality in the northeastern Netherlands.

History

Originally a part of Frisia, Groningen became a part of the Frankish Empire around 785. Frisia ( West Frisian: Fryslân; North Frisian: Fraschlönj, Freesklöön, Freeskluin, Fresklun, and Francia or Frankia, later also called the Frankish Empire (imperium Francorum Frankish Kingdom (Latin regnum Francorum, "Kingdom of the Events By Place Europe Widukind and many other Saxons are baptized Charlemagne assigned the Christianization of this new possession to Ludger. Charlemagne (ˈʃɑrlɨmeɪn Carolus Magnus or Karolus Magnus meaning Charles the Great) (747 – 28 January 814 was King of the Franks from 768 to his Saint Ludger (also Lüdiger or Liudger) (born at Zuilen near Utrecht about 742 died 26 March 809 at Billerbeck In the 11th century, the city of Groningen was a village in Drenthe that belonged to the Bishopric of Utrecht, while most of the province was in the diocese of Münster. Drenthe is a province of the Netherlands, located in the north-east of the country The Archbishopric of Utrecht is the Archbishopric based in the Dutch city of Utrecht. The Bishopric of Münster was an ecclesiastical principality in the Holy Roman Empire, located in the northern part of today's North Rhine-Westphalia and western During the Middle Ages, central control was remote, and the city of Groningen acted as a city state, exerting a dominating influence on the surrounding Ommelanden. A city-state is a Region controlled exclusively by a City, usually having Sovereignty. The Ommelanden ( Dutch for "surrounding lands" are the parts of Groningen province that surround Groningen city. Around 1500, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor gave Groningen and Friesland to Albert, Duke of Saxony, who could however not establish permanent control. Albert (Albrecht 27 January, 1443 &ndash 12 September, 1500) was a Duke of Saxony. In 1514/15 Groningen came to the Duchy of Guelders, and in 1536 to the Habsburg Netherlands. This article deals with the historical county and duchy of Guelders for other meanings see Gelderland. The Habsburg Netherlands was a geo-political entity covering the whole Low Countries from 1482 to 1556/1581 and solely the Southern Netherlands from 1581 to 1794 In 1594, Groningen was conquered by the United Netherlands, to which it belonged henceforth. "United Netherlands" redirects here For the "Kingdom of the United Netherlands" see United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Political history

East Groningen was the scene of a particularly fierce class struggle in the 19th and 20th centuries. Class struggle is the active expression of Class conflict looked at from any kind of socialist perspective Perhaps not coincidentally, Groningen boasts the only municipality (Beerta) where the Communist Party of the Netherlands has ever had a mayor (Hanneke Jagersma). The Communist Party of the Netherlands ( Dutch: Communistische Partij Nederland, CPN was a Dutch communist Political party. A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government

Dialect

Main article: Gronings

Groningen is home to a typical Low Saxon dialect called Gronings (Grönnegs / Grunnegs in Gronings regional language), with local nuances. Dutch Low Saxon (Dutch Low Saxon Nedersaksisch) is a group of Low Saxon ( i A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος dialektos) is a variety of a Language that is characteristic of a particular group of Nowadays, many inhabitants of the province do not speak the dialect, especially in the city of Groningen where many outsiders have moved. Groningen is the capital city of the province of Groningen in the Netherlands.

Municipalities

People from Groningen Province

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