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Pingjum is a village in the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân in Friesland, in the northern Netherlands and lies 6.6 kilometres southwest of Harlingen. It had a population of around 585 in January 2017.The village was first mentioned in the 13th century as Penningem, and means "settlement of Penne ". Pingjum is a terp village from the early middle ages which developed on the Marneslenk in a grid structure. According to legend, the earliest settlers were shepherds from Drenthe who decided to build the terps and around 1100 added dikes for further protection against the sea.

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Súdwest Fryslân,Pingjum, Friesland, Netherlands

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