Benthem may refer to:
* The original
Low German
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and
Dutch name for the
castle
A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders. Scholars debate the scope of the word ''castle'', but usually consider it to be the private fortified r ...
,
town or
county of Bentheim
The County of Bentheim (''Grafschaft Bentheim'', Low German ''Benthem'') was a state of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the south-west corner of today's Lower Saxony, Germany. The county's borders corresponded largely to those of the modern adm ...
.
* The surname
Van Benthem
*
''Benthem'' v ''Netherlands'', a legal case argued before the European Court of Human Rights.
For the English jurist and philosopher, see
Jeremy Bentham.
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