For the Dutch football club, see FC Twente. For the university, see University of Twente.
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Twente
Flag
Location of Twente (yellow) as if it was the 13th province of the Netherlands
Capital
Enschede (de facto)
Official languages
Dutch
Low Saxon
Ethnic groups
Predominantly European
Area
• Total
1,504 km2 (581 sq mi)
• Water (%)
1.06%
Population
• 2012 estimate
626,586
• Density
421.6/km2 (1,091.9/sq mi)
Twente (Dutch: Twente[ˈtʋɛntə]ⓘ, Tweants dialect: Tweante) is a region in the eastern Netherlands. It encompasses the most urbanised and easternmost part of the province of Overijssel. Twente is most likely named after the Tuihanti or Tvihanti,[1] a Germanic tribe that settled in the area and was mentioned by the Roman historian Tacitus. The region's borders are defined by the Overijssel region of Salland in the northwest and west (the river Regge roughly defines the western border), the German County of Bentheim in the northeast and east (the river Dinkel roughly defines the eastern border) and the Gelderland region of the Achterhoek in the south.
Twente has approximately 620,000 inhabitants, most of whom live in its three largest cities: Almelo, Hengelo and Enschede, the latter being the main city of the region. It comprises fourteen municipalities: Almelo, Borne, Dinkelland, Enschede, Haaksbergen, Hellendoorn, Hengelo, Hof van Twente, Losser, Oldenzaal, Rijssen-Holten, Tubbergen, Twenterand and Wierden. The whole of Hellendoorn and the western parts of both Rijssen-Holten and Twenterand historically belong to the cultural region of Salland, but to the city region of Twente.
^Green, D.H. Language and history in the early Germanic world. Cambridge University Press. 2000. 250. Accessed: 24-11-2011
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ZAC before moving to the FC Twente youth academy in 2012. In June 2020, he signed his first contract with the FC Twente/Heracles Academy, the shared...
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