DRENTHE unlike many other parts of the Netherlands, has always been a sparsely populated rural area. Other parts of the Netherlands didn't really see this territory as a part that belonged to the rest of the Netherlands but more like wasteland. This wasteland, however, has been populated by people since prehistory, albeit by just a handful. 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.

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