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Pekela is a municipality in the northern Netherlands, within the province of Groningen. The municipality covers an area of ​​50.22 km². Pekela turned into created via the merger of Oude Pekela and Nieuwe Pekela on January 1, 1990. Pekela has officially merged with Veendam for several years. The authentic company is referred to as De Kompanjie. Pekela is a normal peat colonial municipality. The history of the municipality offers an excellent example of the distinctive development stages of the common peat colony.

But there's also a records that goes again to earlier than the period whilst the peat shaped. At the Hoetmansmeer, excavations were observed that suggest that the location round Pekel A already had human habitation a few 7000 years in the past. The call Pekela is normally derived from brine salt or brackish water with the word A river, watercourse. Due to the destroy in of the Dollard, the mouth of the small river that flowed from the peat into the ocean. According to a 16th century lifestyle, the impact of ebb and flow between Winschoten and Blijham changed into significant for the first time in 1418.

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