title: Leeuwarderadeel
text: # Leeuwarderadeel
  
  Leeuwarderadeel (Dutch: (listen); West Frisian: Ljouwerteradiel) is a former municipality in the northern Netherlands. Its capital was Stiens.
  
  ## History
  
  On 1 January 2018 it merged with the municipality of Leeuwarden.
  
  ## Population centres
  
  * Bartlehiem
  * Britsum
  * Cornjum
  * Finkum
  * Hijum
  * Jelsum
  * Oude Leije
  * Stiens
  
  ### Topography
  
  Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Leeuwarderadeel, June 2015.
  
  ## Bartlehiem
  
  The hamlet of Bartlehiem is partially in Leeuwarderadeel partially in Ferwerderadiel and partially in Tytsjerksteradiel.
  
  