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Leek is a village and former municipality in Groningen province in the northeastern Netherlands. The municipality, which bordered the Drenthe and Friesland provinces, was merged into the municipality of Westerkwartier on 1 January 2019. The village of Leek is approximately 20 km west of Groningen (city) on the A7 (E22) highway. The village grew around a fortification that was constructed here during the Eighty Years' War with Spain. The name 'Leek' was derived from a brook, the "Leke". The town is sometimes also called "De Leek". In Dutch, the people from Leek are called "Leeksters". Every year around Pentecost there is a fair (Pinkstermarkt), drawing thousands of people from the area. Near the village is a shallow lake, called "Het Leekstermeer" (also called Zulthemeer), with recreational facilities, but the lake is in another municipality and in another province.
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