Wendland (disambiguation)

Wendland is a region in Germany on the borders of the present states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt.

Wendland may also refer to:

Places
  • in a medieval sense, the Wendland means any West Slavic, or Wendish, region not designated as Polish, Bohemian or Moravian
    • in the Middle Ages, Pomerania and the surrounding areas were called Wendland, Vendland, Vindland, Ventheland or Latin: Vandalia
    • Hanoverian Wendland is the heart of the Wendland region, today covered by the county of Lüchow-Dannenberg in the German state of Lower Saxony
    • Free Republic of Wendland was a protest camp established in Gorleben in the Wendland region of Germany in 1980
  • according to the Finnish historian Matti Klinge, an earlier name for Finland
  • Mount Wendland, Antarctic mountain

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