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    West-Frisia. The name derives from the words hoog (Dutch for "high") and kerspel, a Middle Dutch word for parish. Hoogkarspel was a separate municipality...
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    originally a hamlet that fell within the heerlijkheid of Borculo, the kerspel Groenlo and the voogdij of Beltrum. In 1552, Rosier van Bronckhorst was...
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    disease. The earliest existing written mention of the village (as Wilsum, kerspel Olst) dates from 1295. The tower of the Protestant church was built around...
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    church or chapel was built in Hattem. In 1176 Hattem became a parish (‘kerspel’). The chapel, measuring 17,5 by 9,5 meter, was not built at the current...
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    Cologne, Dietrich of Mörs, also transferred his share of Broich with the Kerspel Mühlheim to eldest son Willem II of Limburg on 11 April 1446. Johan of...
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