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Gammelke

hamlet in Dinkelland, Netherlands

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ1834687 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gammelke is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It is a part of the municipality of Dinkelland, and lies about 5 km west of Oldenzaal.

Gammelke is not a statistical entity, and the postal authorities have placed it under Deurningen. It was first mentioned in 1272 as Gamminclo, and means "the forest of Gammo (person)". In 1840, it was home to 267 people. Nowadays it consists of about 100 houses.

Seven burial mounds from the Neolithic or Bronze Age have been discovered near Gammelke.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Gammelke” is hamlet in Dinkelland, Netherlands. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Gammelke, hamlet and Dinkelland, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1272, 1840—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Gammelke, hamlet and Dinkelland is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “hamlet in Dinkelland, Netherlands” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1834687. Authority coordinates are 52.318, 6.852. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1272 and 1840.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gammelke” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.