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48-577: On 1 April 1823, the 'provincial printer' of Drenthe , Claas van Gorcum, started in Assen the publication of Nieuws- en Advertentieblad voor de Provincie Drenthe (Dutch for News and Advertisement Paper for the Province of Drenthe). First chief editor was Sibrand Gratama. The Nieuws- en Advertentieblad was renamed Drentsche Courant (Newspaper of Drenthe) in 1826. On 4 July 1851, the Drentsche Courant became

96-615: A Breton language term meaning ' stone table ' but doubt has been cast on this, and the OED describes its origin as "Modern French". A book on Cornish antiquities from 1754 said that the current term in the Cornish language for a cromlech was tolmen ('hole of stone') and the OED says that "There is reason to think that this was the term inexactly reproduced by Latour d'Auvergne [sic] as dolmen , and misapplied by him and succeeding French archaeologists to

144-575: A tumulus (burial mound). Small pad-stones may be wedged between the cap and supporting stones to achieve a level appearance. In many instances, the covering has eroded away, leaving only the stone "skeleton". In Sumba (Indonesia), dolmens are still commonly built (about 100 dolmens each year) for collective graves according to lineage. The traditional village of Wainyapu has some 1,400 dolmens. The word dolmen entered archaeology when Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne used it to describe megalithic tombs in his Origines gauloises (1796) using

192-580: A consequence, since 2002 the province of Drenthe no longer has its own daily. Drenthe Drenthe ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈdrɛntə] ) is a province of the Netherlands located in the northeastern part of the country. It is bordered by Overijssel to the south, Friesland to the west, Groningen to the north, and the German state of Lower Saxony to the east. As of January 2023, Drenthe had

240-410: A large number of municipal mergers in the past decades and Drenthe was no exception. The most significant simultaneous set of mergers took place in 1998, when 32 municipalities were amalgamated into 10 larger municipalities. As of 2014 Drenthe consists of 12 municipalities ; Emmen is the largest municipality in terms of both population and area, Westerveld is the least populous and Meppel covers

288-755: A new regional edition of the Drentse en Asser Courant, the Hoogeveense Courant . In 1975 Wegener acquired the Drents-Groningse Pers and in 1979 the Winschoter Courant was added to this company. Under Wegener, the Drentse en Asser Courant and the Emmer Courant continued to appear independently. In 1992 the Drentse en Asser Courant, the Emmer Courant, and the Hoogeveens Dagblad merged to form

336-517: A population of about 502,000, and a total area of 2,680 km (1,030 sq mi). Drenthe has been populated for 15,000 years. The region has subsequently been part of the Episcopal principality of Utrecht , Habsburg Netherlands , Dutch Republic , Batavian Republic , Kingdom of Holland and Kingdom of the Netherlands . Drenthe has been an official province since 1796. The capital and seat of

384-648: A second part such as de l'alarb ('of the Arab'), del/de moro/s ('of the Moor/s'), del lladre ('of the thief'), del dimoni ('of the devil'), d'en Rotllà/Rotllan/Rotlan/Roldan ('of Roland '),. In the Basque Country , they are attributed to the jentilak , a race of giants. The etymology of the German : Hünenbett, Hünengrab and Dutch : hunebed – with Hüne / hune meaning 'giant' – all evoke

432-471: A variety of names in other languages, including Galician and Portuguese : anta , Bulgarian : Долмени , romanized :  Dolmeni , German : Hünengrab/Hünenbett , Afrikaans and Dutch : hunebed , Basque : trikuharri , Abkhaz : Adamra , Adyghe : Ispun Danish and Norwegian : dysse , Swedish : dös , Korean : 고인돌 , romanized :  goindol (go-in = 'propped' + dol = 'stone') , and Hebrew : גַלעֵד . Granja

480-490: Is Dagblad van het Noorden , which is based in the city of Groningen . Dolmen A dolmen ( / ˈ d ɒ l m ɛ n / ) or portal tomb is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb , usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table". Most date from the Late Neolithic period (4000–3000 BCE ) and were sometimes covered with earth or smaller stones to form

528-572: Is an art and history museum in Assen. It had 227,000 visitors in 2013. Museum Collectie Brands is a local museum located in Nieuw-Dordrecht that houses an extensive collection of rare and curious items collected by Jans Brands. The States of Drenthe have 43 seats, and is headed by the King's Commissioner , currently Jetta Klijnsma . While the provincial council is elected by the people of Drenthe,

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576-473: Is now a national heritage site ( rijksmonument ). Their Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope is an array of fourteen dishes near the village of Westerbork and construction was completed in 1970. Their international Low-Frequency Array with its core near Exloo was completed in 2012. In Assen, Emmen, and Meppel are universities of applied sciences ( hogescholen ). The Stenden University of Applied Sciences has locations in these three towns, which formed

624-469: Is the 3rd least populous and least densely populated province of the Netherlands, with only Flevoland and Zeeland having fewer people. Emmen is the most populous municipality in the province. In 2015, 23.8% of the population belonged to the Protestant Church in the Netherlands while 9.3% was Roman Catholic , 0.9% was Muslim and 3.6% belonged to other churches or faiths. Over half (62.4%) of

672-716: Is the only professional football club in Drenthe. It plays in the Keuken Kampioen Divisie and its home stadium is De Oude Meerdijk . The Ronde van Drenthe is an elite men's and women's professional road bicycle race that takes place annually in early March. The TT Circuit Assen hosts the Dutch TT , which is a round of the MotoGP series of the Motorcycle Road Racing World Championship. Drents Museum

720-541: Is used in Portugal , Galicia , and some parts of Spain . The rarer forms anta and ganda also appear. In Catalan-speaking areas , they are known simply as dolmen , but also by a variety of folk names, including cova ('cave'), caixa ('crate' or 'coffin'), taula ('table'), arca ('chest'), cabana ('hut'), barraca ('hut'), llosa ('slab'), llosa de jaça ('pallet slab'), roca ('rock') or pedra ('stone'), usually combined with

768-530: The Drenthe University of Applied Sciences before a merger in 2008. The Hanze Institute of Technology , part of the Hanze University of Applied Sciences , is located in Assen. There are no research universities ( universiteiten ) in the province of Drenthe. RTV Drenthe , the regional radio and television station, is based in Assen. The regional daily newspaper for the provinces of Drenthe and Groningen

816-751: The Drentse Courant . In Groningen, the Winschoter Courant merged with its regional edition, De Noord-Ooster , into the Groninger Dagblad . The Drentse Courant and the Groninger Dagblad had the same layout and only differed from each other on the regional pages. In 1995 Hazewinkel Pers of Groningen , publisher of Nieuwsblad van het Noorden , acquired the Drents-Groningse Pers from Wegener. Initially, its three dailies continued to appear separately. In 2001, Hazewinkel Pers announced that it would merge its daily newspapers into Dagblad van het Noorden . As

864-625: The Golan Heights , Jordan , Lebanon , Syria , and southeast Turkey . Dolmens in the Levant belong to a different, unrelated tradition to that of Europe, although they are often treated "as part of a trans-regional phenomenon that spanned the Taurus Mountains to the Arabian Peninsula ." In the Levant, they are of Early Bronze rather than Late Neolithic age. They are mostly found along

912-741: The Papacy around 1228-1232. After long being subject to the Utrecht diocese , Bishop Henry of Wittelsbach in 1528 ceded Drenthe to Emperor Charles V of Habsburg , who incorporated it into the Habsburg Netherlands . When the Republic of the Seven United Provinces was declared in 1581, Drenthe became part of it as the County of Drenthe , although it never gained full provincial status due to its poverty;

960-586: The Provinciale Drentsche en Asser Courant (Newspaper of Drenthe Province and Assen). In 1869 frequency of publication increased to daily. In 1966 the Drents-Groningse Pers (Press of Drenthe-Groningen) was founded, as the result of organizational merger of the Emmer Courant and the Provinciale Drentsche en Asser Courant. The Drents-Groningse Pers continued publish the Emmer Courant and shortened its main daily into Drentse en Asser Courant . It added

1008-552: The cromlech ". Nonetheless it has now replaced cromlech as the usual English term in archaeology, when the more technical and descriptive alternatives are not used. The later Cornish term was quoit – an English-language word for an object with a hole through the middle preserving the original Cornish language term of tolmen – the name of another dolmen-like monument is in fact Mên-an-Tol 'stone with hole' (Standard Written Form: Men An Toll .) In Irish Gaelic , dolmens are called Irish : dolmain . Dolmens are known by

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1056-422: The 1970s, there were four hostage crises where South Moluccan terrorists demanded an independent Republic of South Maluku . They held hostages in hijacked trains in 1975 and 1977, in a primary school in 1977 , and in the province hall in 1978 . Drenthe is situated at 52°55′N 6°35′E  /  52.917°N 6.583°E  / 52.917; 6.583 in the northeast of the Netherlands; with to

1104-677: The Bronze Age to the early Iron Age, with about 40,000 to be found throughout the peninsula. In 2000, the dolmen groups of Jukrim-ri and Dosan-ri in Gochang , Hyosan-ri and Daesin-ri in Hwasun , and Bujeong-ri, Samgeori and Osang-ri in Ganghwa gained World Cultural Heritage status. (See Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa Dolmen Sites .) They are mainly distributed along the West Sea coastal area and on large rivers from

1152-600: The Commissioner is appointed by the King and the cabinet of the Netherlands. The daily affairs of the province are taken care of by the Gedeputeerde Staten , which are also headed by the Commissioner; its members ( gedeputeerden ) can be compared with ministers. The motorways A28 ( E232 ), A32 , A37 ( E233 ), and the other major roads N33, N34 , and N48 are maintained by the state. There are four railways partially in

1200-519: The German occupiers used the camp (which they named KZ Westerbork ) as a Durchgangslager (transit camp). Many Dutch Jews, Sinti , Roma , resistance combatants and political adversaries were imprisoned before being transferred to concentration and extermination camps in Germany and occupied Poland. Anne Frank was deported on the last train leaving the Westerbork transit camp on 3 September 1944. In

1248-571: The Jordan Rift Valley's eastern escarpment, and in the hills of the Galilee, in clusters near Early Bronze I proto-urban settlements (3700–3000 BCE), additionally restricted by geology to areas allowing the quarrying of slabs of megalithic size. In the Levant, geological constraints led to a local burial tradition with a variety of tomb forms, dolmens being one of them. Dolmens were built in Korea from

1296-818: The Liaoning region of China (the Liaodong Peninsula ) to Jeollanam-do . In North Korea, they are concentrated around the Taedong and Jaeryeong Rivers . In South Korea, they are found in dense concentrations in river basins, such as the Han and Nakdong Rivers , and in the west coast area ( Boryeong in South Chungcheong Province, Buan in North Jeolla Province, and Jeollanam-do. They are mainly found on sedimentary plains, where they are grouped in rows parallel to

1344-468: The Netherlands; except for the small cities of Assen (pop. 67,963 ) and Emmen (pop. 107,113), the land in Drenthe is mainly used for agriculture and it has a notable amount of forests and nature. The name Drenthe is said to stem from thrija-hantja meaning "three lands". Drenthe has been populated by people since prehistory. Artifacts from the Wolstonian Stage (150,000 years ago) are among

1392-431: The absence of clear evidence for this. Human remains, sometimes accompanied by artefacts, have been found in or close to the dolmens which could be scientifically dated using radiocarbon dating . However, it has been impossible to prove that these remains date from the time when the stones were originally set in place. Early in the 20th century, before the advent of scientific dating, it was proposed by Harold Peake that

1440-475: The direction of the river or stream. Those found in hilly areas are grouped in the direction of the hill. Also called Muniyaras, these dolmens belong to the Iron Age . These dolmenoids were burial chambers made of four stones placed on edge and covered by a fifth stone called the cap stone. Some of these Dolmenoids contain several burial chambers, while others have a quadrangle scooped out in laterite and lined on

1488-561: The dolmens of western Europe were evidence of cultural diffusion from the eastern Mediterranean. This "prospector theory" surmised that Aegean-origin prospectors had moved westward in search of metal ores, starting before 2200 BCE, and had taken the concept of megalithic architecture with them. Dolmens can be found in the Levant , some along the Jordan Rift Valley ( Upper Galilee in Israel ,

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1536-703: The image of giants buried ( bett / bed / grab = 'bed/grave') there. Of other Celtic languages , Welsh cromlech was borrowed into English and quoit is commonly used in English in Cornwall . It remains unclear when, why and by whom the earliest dolmens were made. The oldest known are found in Western Europe , dating from c. 7,000 years ago. Archaeologists still do not know who erected these dolmens, which makes it difficult to know why they did it. They are generally all regarded as tombs or burial chambers, despite

1584-401: The land or 1,898 km (733 sq mi) is used for agriculture. Drenthe has several heathlands and no significant rivers or lakes. The national parks Drents-Friese Wold and Dwingelderveld ( IUCN category II) and the national landscape Drentsche Aa (IUCN category V) are all (partially) located in the province. The major urban centers of the province are the capital Assen in

1632-462: The left side of river Pambar as is evident from the usage of neatly dressed granite slabs for the dolmens. At least one of them has a perfectly circular hole of 28 cm diameter inside the underground chamber. This region has several types of dolmens. Large number of them are overground with about 70–90 cm height. Another type has a height 140–170 cm. There is an overground dolmen with double length up to 350 cm. Fragments of burial urns are also available in

1680-427: The north and Emmen , Meppel , Hoogeveen , and Coevorden in the south. Drenthe has an oceanic climate ( Köppen climate classification : Cfb). The province ( Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics or NUTS level 2) is divided into three COROP regions (NUTS level 3): North Drenthe, Southeast Drenthe, and Southwest Drenthe. The COROP regions are used for statistical purposes. The Netherlands underwent

1728-439: The north the province Groningen , to the west the province Friesland , to the south the province Overijssel , and to the east the German districts Emsland and Bentheim in the state Lower Saxony . Drenthe is the 9th largest province of the Netherlands. It has a total area of 2,683 km (1,036 sq mi), with 2,639 km (1,019 sq mi) of land and 44 km (17 sq mi) of water. About 72% of

1776-442: The oldest found in the Netherlands. In fact, it was one of the most densely populated areas of the Netherlands until the Bronze Age. The most tangible evidence of this are the dolmens ( hunebedden ) built around 3500 BC. 53 of the 54 dolmens in the Netherlands can be found in Drenthe, concentrated in the northeast of the province. In 2006, the archaeological reserve of Strubben-Kniphorstbos , located between Anloo and Schipborg ,

1824-499: The population identified as non-religious. Religion in Drenthe (2015) Agriculture is an important employer, although industrial areas are found near the cities. The quietness of the province is also attracting a growing number of tourists. Drenthe is known as the "Cycling Province" of the Netherlands and is an exceptional place for a cycling holiday, having hundreds of kilometers of cycle paths through forest, heath and along canals and many towns and villages offering refreshment along

1872-566: The province of Drenthe: Groningen Airport Eelde is a minor international airport located in Eelde in the province of Drenthe. Hoogeveen Airport is a general aviation airport located in Hoogeveen . ASTRON , the Netherlands institute for radio astronomy , is located near Dwingeloo . Their single-dish radio telescope of the Dwingeloo Radio Observatory was completed in 1956 and

1920-564: The province was so poor it was exempt from paying federal taxes and as a consequence was denied representation in the States General. The successor Batavian Republic granted it provincial status on 1 January 1796. Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War , the Dutch government built a camp near the town of Hooghalen to intern German Jewish refugees. During the Second World War ,

1968-634: The provincial government is Assen . The King's Commissioner of Drenthe is Jetta Klijnsma . The Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB) is the largest party in the States-Provincial , followed by the Labour Party (PvdA) and the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). Drenthe has the lowest population density in the European Netherlands. It is a predominantly rural area, unlike many other parts of

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2016-503: The sides with granite slabs. These are also covered with cap stones. Dozens of Dolmens around the area of old Siva temple (Thenkasinathan Temple) at Kovilkadavu on the banks of the River Pambar and also around the area called Pius nagar, and rock paintings on the south-western slope of the plateau overlooking the river have attracted visitors. Apart from the dolmens of Stone Age, several dolmens of Iron Age exist in this region especially on

2064-445: The smallest area. The municipalities Assen , Noordenveld , and Tynaarlo are part of the interprovincial Groningen-Assen Region and the municipalities Aa en Hunze , Assen, Borger-Odoorn , Coevorden , Emmen, Midden-Drenthe , Noordenveld, and Westerveld are part of the international Ems Dollart Region (EDR). On 1 January 2023, Drenthe had a total population of 502,051 and a population density of 191/km (490/sq mi). It

2112-468: The spelling dolmin (the current spelling was introduced about a decade later and had become standard in French by about 1885). The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) does not mention dolmin in English and gives its first citation for dolmen from a book on Brittany in 1859, describing the word as "The French term, used by some English authors, for a cromlech ...". The name was supposedly derived from

2160-401: The way. Drenthe exports through the entire Netherlands and also receives supplies and goods from Germany, making it a good business district. Many Dutch and German multinational companies are settled in Drenthe. The Gross domestic product (GDP) of the province was 15.1 billion € in 2018, accounting for 1.9% of the Netherlands economic output. GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power

2208-614: Was 26,700 € or 89% of the EU27 average in the same year. Over half the population of Drenthe speaks the Drents dialect. Each town or village has its own version. All versions are part of the Low Saxon language group. Dutch Low Saxon has been officially recognised by the Dutch government as a regional language and is protected by the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages . FC Emmen

2256-547: Was a trading centre in the Netherlands in the Bronze Age. Drenthe was first mentioned in a document from 820, it was called Pago Treanth (Drenthe district). In archives from Het Utrechts Archief , from 1024 to 1025, the "county Drenthe" is mentioned, when Emperor Henry II gave it to Bishop Adalbold II of Utrecht . Subjugation of this region into the Holy Roman Empire culminated in the Drenther Crusade launched by

2304-555: Was created to preserve part of this heritage. Most of the Bronze Age objects found in the Netherlands have been found in Drenthe. One item shows that trading networks during this period extended a far distance. Large bronze situlae (buckets) found in Drenthe were manufactured somewhere in eastern France or in Switzerland . They were used for mixing wine with water (a Roman/Greek custom). The many finds in Drenthe of rare and valuable objects, such as tin-bead necklaces, suggest that Drenthe

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