Oversticht

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Oversticht was a medieval territorial region in the northern Low Countries that roughly corresponds to much of the modern Dutch province of Overijssel and surrounding areas.

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Label Occurrences
Oversticht canonical 11

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Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf historical region
medieval territorial division
borderedBy Drenthe
Friesland
Gelderland
Holy Roman Empire
country Low Countries
dissolvedInto Overijssel
territories of the Habsburg Netherlands
governedBy ecclesiastical prince
hasCapital Zwolle
hasCity Deventer
Kampen
Zwolle
hasRegion Salland
Twente
Vollenhove
historicalEra medieval Low Countries
historicalLanguageRegion Low Saxon dialect area
historicalRegionOf Low Countries
Netherlands
languageUsed Middle Dutch
locatedIn northern Low Countries
nameMeaning upper Sticht
oppositeOf Nedersticht
partOf Bishopric of Utrecht
Holy Roman Empire
Bishopric of Utrecht
surface form: Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht
politicalStatus ecclesiastical territory
presentIn modern Netherlands
religion Roman Catholicism
roughlyCorrespondsTo Overijssel
modern Dutch province of Overijssel
parts of Drenthe
parts of Gelderland
sovereign Bishop of Utrecht
Bishop of Utrecht
surface form: Prince-Bishop of Utrecht
subdivisionOf Sticht Utrecht
timePeriod Middle Ages
todayMostlyIn province of Overijssel
todayPartlyIn province of Drenthe
Gelderland
surface form: province of Gelderland
usedFor administrative division
secular governance by the bishopric

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Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Overijssel historicalAffiliation Oversticht
Salland historicallyPartOf Oversticht
Sticht Utrecht borderedBy Oversticht
Sticht Utrecht includes Oversticht
Nedersticht opposedTo Oversticht
Nedersticht borderedBy Oversticht
upper Sticht hasNameInDutch Oversticht
subject surface form: Upper Sticht