Wendland

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Wendland may refer to either of the following regions or people:

• Wendland may refer to a region once inhabited by Wends, an old Germanic term for Slavic tribes living in close proximity to the Germanic tribes:
  • in the Middle Ages, Pomerania and the surrounding areas were called Wendland, Vendland, Vindland, Ventheland or Latin: Vandalia.
  • Wendland is both the historical and the contemporary term for the region Lüchow-Dannenberg in the German Land of Lower Saxony.
  • according to the Finnish historian Matti Klinge, an earlier name for Finland

• Wendland may refer to the following people:
  • Heinrich Wendland, German botanist (H.L.Wendl.)
  • Hermann Wendland, German botanist (H.Wendl.)
  • Johann Christoph Wendland, German botanist (Wendl.)
  • Paul Wendland
  • Robert Wendland, subject of an American court case concerning right to life vs. right to die

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