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.
- Hanoverian Wendland is both the historical and the contemporary term for the region Lüchow-Dannenberg in the German Land of Lower Saxony.
- Free Republic of Wendland was a protest camp established in Gorleben, Germany in 1980
- according to the Finnish historian Matti Klinge, an earlier name for Finland
- Mount Wendland, Antarctic mountain
- Wendland may refer to the following people:
- Anna Veronika Wendland, German historian of the East Europe and Ukraine.
- August von Wendland (1806–1884), diplomat from the Kingdom of Bavaria
- Heinrich Wendland (1791-1869), German botanist (H.L.Wendl.)
- Hermann Wendland, German botanist (H.Wendl.)
- Johann Christoph Wendland (1755-1828), German botanist (Wendl.)
- Mike Wendland, American technology reporter
- Paul Wendland, German philologist
- Ray Wendland, Ph.D., American petrochemist and educator
- Robert Wendland, subject of an American court case concerning right to life vs. right to die
- Scott Wendland, American figure skater
- Wolfgang Wendland (born 1962), German musician, actor, film producer and politician
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