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Emmer-Compascuum
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Emmer-Compascuum
Total population
7,806
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City facts
Overview
Emmer-Compascuum is a village in the Netherlands and is part of the Emmen municipality in Drenthe.
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History
In 1874, Emmen sold the compascuum for peat excavation. Between 1878 and 1880, the city of Groningen dug the Stads-Compascuumkanaal from Ter Apel, and the village of Emmer-Compascuum was founded in 1879 at the meeting point of the canal and the Runde River. In 1932, it was home to 2,967 people. In 1947, opened a nylon factory in Emmer-Compascuum. At the height of its success, it employed 5,000 people. Other factories like , a producer of sterile fluid for the pharmaceutical industry, followed.
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- • Wikidata
- • iNaturalist
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
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