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    Beemster (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbeːmstər] ) is a former municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. The Beemster is the first polder...
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    Beemster cheese is a hard, Dutch cow's milk cheese. Production of Beemster is similar to other hard cheeses such as Gouda. The specific taste of Beemster...
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    North Holland. The city is surrounded by polders, such as the Purmer, Beemster and the Wormer. Purmerend's population grew relatively slowly until the...
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    cumin), and Edam (traditionally in small spheres) as well as Leerdammer and Beemster, while the adjacent Zaanstreek in North Holland has since the 16th century...
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    and Flevoland Municipalities of Aalsmeer, Almere, Amstelveen, Amsterdam, Beemster, Beverwijk, Blaricum, Bloemendaal, Diemen, Edam-Volendam, Gooise Meren...
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  • Schokland Amsterdam defense line Kinderdijk-Elshout D.F. Wouda pumping st. Beemster Schröder House Wadden Sea Canals of Amsterdam Van Nelle Factory Frederiksoord...
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    Belgium, Canada and China. Some examples of Dutch polder projects are Beemster, Schermer, Flevopolder and Noordoostpolder. The Dutch word polder derives...
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    Million Manhoef (category People from Beemster)
    as a winger for EFL Championship club Stoke City. Manhoef was born in Beemster and played youth team football with VPV Purmersteijn, AVV Zeeburgia and...
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    municipality of Haarlemmermeer. On 1 January 2022 the municipality of Beemster merged into the municipality of Purmerend, and the municipalities of Heerhugowaard...
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  • This is a list of cheeses from, or connected with, the Netherlands. Beemster – a hard cow's milk cheese, traditionally from cows grazed on sea-clay soil...
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  • The Beemster-class was a class of fourteen minesweepers that were built at different shipyards in the United States for the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNN)...
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    Stelling van Amsterdam. It lies in the Beemster polder, near the city of Purmerend. It was built to protect the Beemster canal ring dyke (Dutch: Beemsterringdijk)...
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    Extra aged Beemster cheese, 26+ months old, showing the tyrosine crystals....
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    Corneliisz van Alckmaer, Pieter. ""Caerte vande gheleghentheyt van de Beemster met de landen die daeromme ende aengheleghen zijn, na rechte landmetersch...
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    Weesp included. Weesp has made part of Amsterdam since 2022. Beemster included. Beemster has made part of Purmerend since 2022. Zeevang included. Zeevang...
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  • man ontwierp hem". de Gelderlander. 5 February 2022. Huisstijl. Gemeente Beemster. Retrieved 24 March 2013 Klaas Broeils (16 August 2001). "Vlag en wapen"...
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    available. Some famous Dutch polders and the year they were laid dry are: Beemster (1609–1612) Schermer (1633–1635) Haarlemmermeerpolder (1852) As part of...
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    Museum Betje Wolff is a history and decorative arts museum in Beemster, North Holland, in the Netherlands. The museum, founded in 1950, is located in a...
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    of the Beemster polder, the first polder in the world created from a lake by draining the water using wind mills. The reclamation of the Beemster was started...
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    former lakes (now polders) like the Wijkermeer, Watergraafsmeer and the Beemster. In the 19th century, with improvements in water management, new regions...
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    Risks. 22 March 2012. Retrieved February 25, 2013. Krivoshiev, Boris V.; Beemster, Gerrit T.S.; Sprangers, Katrien; Blust, Ronny; Husson, Steven J. (April...
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    lies about 10 km northwest of Purmerend, between the Schermer and the Beemster polders. Before the poldering of the lakes surrounding it, De Rijp was...
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    the present-day municipalities of Alkmaar, Amsterdam (Landelijk Noord), Beemster, Bergen, Castricum, Den Helder, Drechterland, Edam-Volendam, Enkhuizen...
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    Period (c. 1900–1600 BC). One of the earliest large-scale projects was the Beemster Polder in the Netherlands, realized in 1612 adding 70 square kilometres...
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    the words in the song, then and now, are "greenback," not "green bag." Beemster, Cees (17 February 2017). "Stek George Baker en Coen te koop" (in Dutch)...
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    the East. In 1612 Van Os acquired more than one-seventh of the land in Beemster and in the Purmer His portrait is in the Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar. His...
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  • yet creamy texture and a sweet, sharp flavor. Vlaskaas is made under the Beemster brand by the farmer-owned cooperative, CONO Kaasmakers in the Netherlands...
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  • collaborator Betje Wolff (1738–1804), Dutch novelist Museum Betje Wolff, Beemster, the Netherlands Fictional characters Betje, a character in the 1918 novel...
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    Carel Fabritius (category People from Beemster)
    born in February 1622 in Middenbeemster, a village in the ten-year-old Beemster polder in the Dutch Republic, and was baptized on 27 February of that year...
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    utilized, partially through transforming lakes into polders such as the Beemster, Schermer and Purmer, local grain production and dairy farming soared.[citation...
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