Finsterwolde

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Finsterwolde
Coordinates: 53°11′53″N 7°5′1″E / 53.19806°N 7.08361°E / 53.19806; 7.08361
Country Netherlands
Province Groningen (province)
Municipality Oldambt
Population (2011) 2,515 [1]

Finsterwolde is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen, about 7 km northeast of the city of Winschoten. Finsterwolde was a separate municipality until 1990, when it was merged with Beerta into Reiderland.[2] In 2010 Reiderland merged into the municipality Oldambt. The old municipality of Finsterwolde included six small nearby or connecting settlements. These are also taken into account in the population estimate of 2008, without which the actual population, purely based on the centre and new developments, would be 1250.[1]

The town was named 'Little Moscow' by TIME magazine in 1950, because communists have always had the majority of the votes since 1933.[3]

Born in Finsterwolde

Arie Haan (1948), Dutch footballer and coach

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS) (2011). Gemeente Op Maat - Oldambt. p. 51. Retrieved 18 May 2013. 
  2. ↑ Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006.
  3. ↑ http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,813964,00.html

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Coordinates: 53°12′N 7°05′E / 53.200°N 7.083°E / 53.200; 7.083


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