Sweagerbosk (
Low Saxon: ''Swoagerbosk'') is a village in
Noardeast-Fryslân
Noardeast-Fryslân is a municipality of Friesland in the northern Netherlands. It was established 1 January 2019 and consists of the former municipalities of Dongeradeel, Ferwerderadiel and Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland, all three of which diss ...
municipality in the province
Friesland
Friesland (, ; official fry, Fryslân ), historically and traditionally known as Frisia, is a province of the Netherlands located in the country's northern part. It is situated west of Groningen, northwest of Drenthe and Overijssel, north of ...
of the
Netherlands
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. It had a population of around 638 in January 2017. Before 2019, the village was part of the
Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland
Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland (; fy, en Nijkrúslân), officially abbreviated as Kollumerland c.a., is a municipality in the northern Netherlands, located in the province of Friesland. In 2019 it merged with the municipalities of Dongeradeel and ...
municipality.
Its people speak a dialect of the standard
Wood Frisian
West Frisian, or simply Frisian ( fy, link=no, Frysk or ; nl, Fries , also ), is a West Germanic language spoken mostly in the province of Friesland () in the north of the Netherlands, mostly by those of Frisian ancestry. It is the most wid ...
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Westereendersk dialect.
The village was first mentioned in 1861 as het Bosch, and means forest belonging to
Kollumersweach.
Settlement started in the 18th century. The region around Sweagerbosk consisted mainly of
heath
A heath () is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths with—especially in Great Britain—a cooler a ...
. In 1940, it was officially listed as a village.
References
External links
Noardeast-Fryslân
Populated places in Friesland
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