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Groningen is the main municipality as well as the capital city of the eponymous province in the Netherlands. With a population of 198,108 (in 2014), it is the largest city in the north of the Netherlands. An old city, Groningen was the regional power of the northern Netherlands, a semi-independent city-state and member of the German Hanseatic League. Groningen is a university city: the University of Groningen (about 28,000 students) and Hanze University of Applied Sciences (about 25,000 students).
Read more @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groningen
Postmark Examples
GRONINGEN, 17 JAN 1914, Postage Stamp from Jubilee emission of 1913. See StampSet at
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Slogan cancels
GRONINGEN Slogan cancel 1950, "Netherland is working"
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GRONINGEN Slogan cancel 1953, "Leave 4 cm free for the post office at the top of the letter"
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GRONINGEN Slogan cancel 1982, "Prettige feestdagen" (Happy holidays)
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GRONINGEN Slogan cancel 1987, "400 years of Police in Groningen"
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GRONINGEN Slogan cancel 1992, "Abel Tasman 1992"
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Roller Cancels
GRONINGEN Slogan cancel 1924, on Columbia Machine.
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Meter cancels
Meter cancel Groningen, 1932.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1933.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1943.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1945.
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Meter cancel Groningen 1954
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Meter cancel Groningen 1964
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1973.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1976.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1976.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1976.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1976.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1976.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1977.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1977.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1978.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 198x.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1982. Protective clothing and footware.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1983.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1983.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1983.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1984.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1986.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1986.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1987.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1987.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1987.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1988.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1988.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1989.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1991.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1994.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1994.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1995.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 1996.
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Meter cancel Groningen, 2007.
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Cards and Covers
First stamped Letter card of the Netherlands, model 1871, privately overprinted with "Binnenlandsche Vaart - Risico-Societeit" (a company name), sent by train from Hoogeveen to Amsterdam. The card was offered at Hoogeveen Station to the post office in the train on the traject Groningen/Meppel on 24 OCT 1872. The Hoogeveen postmark is a typical train cancel. Also the cancel with "Meppel-Gron." has been set at the train office. The card arrived in Amsterdam on 25 OCT 1872. Note: the mark B3 is from the postman who delivered the card at the destination. Collection of Jan Boon.
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Stamped letter card, model of 1881, sent 24 (?) March 1898 from Beerta to Groningen (arrival stamp 25 March 1898). E13 is postman stamp. (Courtesy of Jan Boon)
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