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    De Biesbosch National Park is one of the largest national parks in the Netherlands and one of the last extensive areas of freshwater tidal wetlands in...
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    left as it was, and now forms the Biesbosch nature reserve and bird sanctuary. Until the end of the 1960s the Biesbosch was directly connected with the...
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    delta. It was dug along the general trajectories of a number of minor Biesbosch creeks to reduce the risk of flooding by diverting the water away from...
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    and north-western North Brabant (around Geertruidenberg). Most of the Biesbosch (a big area of nature in the Netherlands) area has been flooded since...
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    destroyed a newly reclaimed polder, replacing it with the 72 km2 (28 sq mi) Biesbosch tidal floodplains. The huge North Sea flood of February 1953 caused the...
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    The Sliedrechtse Biesbosch, east of Dordrecht, and the Dordtse Biesbosch, south of Dordrecht, together form the Hollandse Biesbosch which is a part of...
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    Euroregion Rhine-Waal Euroregion Scheldemond Euroregion Bible Belt De Biesbosch Bollenstreek Gelderse Valley [fy; li; nds-nl; nl; zea] Groene Hart Holland...
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    for fly and other types of fishing. Eggs from asp A 4-kg asp caught in Biesbosch, NL Asp on exhibition Subaqueous Vltava in Prague Freyhof, J. & Kottelat...
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    municipality, part of Land van Heusden en Altena, contained a large part of De Biesbosch area as it is located in the province of North Brabant. On 1 January 2019...
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    southern Netherlands, in the province North Brabant. A large portion of the Biesbosch National Park is part of this municipality. Towns: Made (population: 11...
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    Zwijndrecht Veerplein - Papendrecht Veerdam - Papendrecht Oosteind - Hollandse Biesbosch - Sliedrecht Middeldiep Jan Rudolph Slotemaker de Bruïne (1869–1941) was...
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    The Bergse Maas continues under the name of Amer, which is part of De Biesbosch. The Afgedamde Maas joins the Waal, the main stem of the Rhine at Woudrichem...
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    Amer is a major navigation route. It forms the south boundary of the Biesbosch National Park. In 1886, the splitting of the Maas and of the Waal made...
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    Holland 3,800 ha 1995 Oosterschelde National Park Zeeland 37,000 ha 2002 De Biesbosch National Park North Brabant, South Holland 7,100 ha 1994 De Zoom–Kalmthoutse...
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    1943 he went into hiding. He found a place to hide on a houseboat in De Biesbosch, where already three others were hiding. They were supplied by the Onderduikersdienst...
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    west, through the Waal and then, via the Merwede and Nieuwe Merwede (De Biesbosch), merging with the Meuse, through the Hollands Diep and Haringvliet estuaries...
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    more to the east. The easternmost tip of South Holland is part of De Biesbosch, one of the largest national parks of the Netherlands and one of the last...
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    occupied and liberated Netherlands across the Biesbosch and the Merwede. They were part of the larger Biesbosch resistance group, and the Albrecht intelligence...
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    neglect because of a civil war caused dikes to fail, which created the Biesbosch, now a valued nature reserve. The more recent floodings of 1916 and 1953...
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    flowering. Occurs in the Netherlands in a fresh water tidal zone (De Biesbosch). → C. palustris var. araneosa (only generally recognised in the Netherlands)...
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    Swanenberg: Taal in stad en land: Oost-Brabants, ISBN 9012090105 Onder de Biesbosch, Historisch-geografische en naamkundige bouwstenen voor een reconstructie...
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    Hollands Diep estuary, and separates the Island of Dordrecht from the Biesbosch National Park. The Beneden Merwede splits into the Noord River and Oude...
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    Oude Maasje/Bergse Maas (south), and by the region of De Biesbosch, including De Biesbosch National Park (west). The Land van Heusden en Altena coincides...
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    polder are now separated by water: Hoekse Waard, Eiland van Dordrecht, De Biesbosch, and parts of North Brabant. The Grote Waard was a damp peat region, which...
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    within the Old Dutch Waterline that stretched from Muiden down to the Biesbosch. In the "disaster year" of 1672 the Netherlands was at war with France...
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  • Dutch policemen. As in the film, crossing attempts took place in the Biesbosch. Events are related to the life of Verhoeven, who was born in 1938 and...
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    Netherlands, on the Wantij [nl] waterway near the former shipyard De Biesbosch. The museum is run by Vereniging De Binnenvaart (established 1990), which...
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  • De Biesbosch in the Netherlands...
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    Geertruidenberg Geertruidenberg flower sculpture Dordrecht Brabantse Biesbosch "Samenstelling College van B&W". www.geertruidenberg.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved...
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    Hoeksche Waard 7. The island of Dordrecht 8. The national park of De Biesbosch 9. The island of IJsselmonde 10. The island of Rozenburg 11. Part of the...
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