Overijssel
or OVERYSSEL, a province of the Netherlands; area, 1,283 square miles. It is watered by the Ijssel, which separates it from Gelderland, and by the Vecht and its affluents. Except a strip along the Ijssel, presenting good arable and meadow land, the surface is mostly a sandy flat relieved by hillocks, and the principal industry Chief towns, Zwolle, Deventer, Almelo, is stock raising and dairy farming. and Kampen. Pop. (1917) 431,757.