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    AZ Alkmaar (redirect from FC Zaanstreek)
    Alkmaar Zaanstreek (Dutch: [ˈɑl(ə)kmaːr ˈzaːnstreːk]), better known internationally as AZ Alkmaar, or simply and most commonly as AZ (pronounced [aːˈzɛt])...
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    AZ is a Dutch association football team, based in Wijdewormer in the Zaanstreek. It is the reserve team of AZ, based in Alkmaar, and plays in the Eerste...
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    region through which the river runs is called the Zaan district (Dutch: Zaanstreek [ˈzaːnstreːk]). It comprises the municipalities of Zaanstad, Oostzaan...
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  • Munich, Germany Assignment Zero, a crowdsourced journalism project Alkmaar Zaanstreek, formerly AZ '67, a Dutch Eredivisie football club AZ (women), the affiliated...
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    small spheres) as well as Leerdammer and Beemster, while the adjacent Zaanstreek in North Holland has since the 16th century been known for its mayonnaise...
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  • Consolation is the name of a former Dutch death metal/grindcore band from the Zaanstreek that formed in 1989. They released three full-length albums through Displeased...
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    (Dutch pronunciation: [oːstˈsaːn] ) is a municipality and a town in the Zaanstreek, Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. The municipality had a...
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    From 1961 to 1974, old buildings from all over the region known as the Zaanstreek were relocated using lowboy trailers to Zaanse Schans. Two of the windmills...
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    Wieringermeer (North Holland) Wijdewormer (De Wormer, North Holland) Zaanstreek ("The Zaan Area") (North Holland) About one in six Dutch people live in...
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    Volendam and Marken and the area around there, West Friesland and the Zaanstreek; and in a southeastern fringe bordering the provinces of North Brabant...
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    Netherlands, which was originally built in the seventeenth century at Zaanstreek, North Holland. In 1828 it was moved to IJlst, where it worked using wind...
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  • Utrecht in 1970. GVAV became FC Groningen in 1971. Alkmaar 54 and FC Zaanstreek merged to form AZ in 1967. Roda Sport and Rapid JC merged to form Roda...
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    (formerly called Saenredam) and the surrounding Zaan River region (the Zaanstreek) is intimately tied to industry. In the Dutch Golden Age, Zaandam served...
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    footballer who played as a striker for Heerenveen, Stormvogels, Ajax, Zaanstreek and the Pittsburgh Phantoms during his career. Groot began his career...
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    Celebrating children in the Zaanstreek (1961)...
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    warehouse in Zaandam. Soon after, Albert Heijn, which also originated in the Zaanstreek, showed interest in a takeover and in 1973 Simon de Wit merged with Albert...
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    agglomeration (Agglomeratie Haarlem) Bloemendaal, Haarlem, Heemstede, Zandvoort Zaanstreek Wormerland, Zaanstad Greater Amsterdam (Groot-Amsterdam) Aalsmeer, Amstelveen...
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    the city Alkmaar is home to the professional football team AZ (Alkmaar Zaanstreek). In 2006, the club moved to a new 17,000 capacity stadium, the DSB Stadion...
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    Wieringermeer (North Holland) Wijdewormer (De Wormer) (North Holland) Zaanstreek (North Holland) Zeelandic Flanders (Zeeland) Zevenwouden (Friesland) Zoom...
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  • (water vole), a character in the novel The Wind in the Willows De Walrot, Zaanstreek, a windmill moved to IJlst, Friesland in 1828 Monto Water Rats, a music...
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  • in the 2024–25 season. "David Min steeds nadrukkelijker aanwezig". RTV Zaanstreek (in Dutch). 28 January 2021. Archived from the original on 2 March 2021...
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    collection of the Zaans Museum currently comprises five exhibitions: ‘De Zaanstreek maakt het’ (The Zaan region really makes it), ‘Typisch Zaans’ (Typical...
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    is still an important part of the local West Frisian dialect group. In Zaanstreek (central North Holland), a traditional region, the old Hollandic dialect...
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    Zeeuwse bolus are good examples. A moist doughy white bread from the Zaanstreek in North Holland is duivekater, of which the recipe goes back hundreds...
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    Alkmaar and surroundings NL328 IJmond NL323 Haarlem agglomeration NL324 Zaanstreek NL325 Greater Amsterdam NL329 Het Gooi and Vechtstreek NL327 South Holland...
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  • playing their 42nd season of competitive football (Alkmaar '54 and FC Zaanstreek had merged to form AZ in May 1967). The club won its first Eredivisie...
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    began to branch out to the poorest circles of the working classes. In the Zaanstreek, around Zaandam and the port cities of Amsterdam and Rotterdam the party...
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  • probably matronymic ("child of Aafje") and may have originated in the Zaanstreek. Aafjes may refer to: Bertus Aafjes (1914–1993), Dutch poet Gerard Aafjes...
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    Gerrit Kist when Kist had worked for the tsar in Moscow. Upon visiting the Zaanstreek, Peter insisted on staying with Kist in his home, despite Kist's protests...
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    small town and polder in the Netherlands has one or more windmills. The Zaanstreek alone has had over a thousand industrial windmills, each with a name and...
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