The Zuiderzee or Zuider Zee (Dutch: [ˌzœydərˈzeː] ; old spelling Zuyderzee or Zuyder Zee), historically called Lake Almere and Lake Flevo, was a shallow...
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South Flevoland (1967) Freshwater Seawater Land reclamation Old land The Zuiderzee Works (Dutch: Zuiderzeewerken) is a system of dams and dikes, land reclamation...
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The Zuiderzee Museum, located on Wierdijk in the historic center of Enkhuizen, is a Dutch museum devoted to preserving the cultural heritage and maritime...
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Flevoland (category Zuiderzee Works)
one provincial entity. It is in the centre of the country in the former Zuiderzee, which was turned into the freshwater IJsselmeer by the closure of the...
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off of the Zuiderzee, a large shallow inlet of the North Sea. This dam, called the Afsluitdijk, was built in 1932–33, separating the Zuiderzee from the...
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Netherlands in summer when they entered the Wadden Sea and Zuiderzee. After the closing of the Zuiderzee they were still found in the Wadden Sea until the 1960s...
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St. Lucia's flood (section Creation of Zuiderzee)
a vast percentage of the country's population was wiped out. The name Zuiderzee ("Southern Sea", from the Frisian perspective) dates from after this event...
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Hendrik Wortman (section Zuiderzee Works)
exploratory studies for damming of the Zuiderzee. After Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands gave royal assent to the Zuiderzee Works, in 1919 Wortman was appointed...
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Rhithropanopeus (redirect from Zuiderzee crab)
Rhithropanopeus harrisii (common names include the Zuiderzee crab, dwarf crab, estuarine mud crab, Harris mud crab, white-fingered mud crab, and white-tipped...
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IJsselmeer (category Zuiderzee Works)
Sea, turning the lake into a bay of the North Sea, called the Zuiderzee. The Zuiderzee continued to be a threat to the Dutch, especially when northwesterly...
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Afsluitdijk (category Zuiderzee Works)
The Afsluitdijk is a fundamental part of the larger Zuiderzee Works, damming off the Zuiderzee, a salt water inlet of the North Sea, and turning it into...
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List of islands of the Netherlands (section Islands in the IJsselmeer, Markermeer, or former Zuiderzee)
This is a list of islands of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Noorderhaaks Texel Vlieland Richel Terschelling Griend Ameland Rif Engelsmanplaat Schiermonnikoog...
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The Battle on the Zuiderzee (October 11, 1573) was a naval battle during the Eighty Years' War in which a Dutch fleet destroyed a larger and better-equipped...
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to having a major involvement in the design and planning of both the Zuiderzee Works and the Delta Works, he published widely and played a key role in...
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the former Zuiderzee (Southern Sea) from the North Sea and thus creating the IJsselmeer (IJssel Lake). It became part of the larger Zuiderzee Works in which...
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in the Middle Ages has expanded. This is due to the emergence of the Zuiderzee, itself a bay of the North Sea resulting from a number of storms. At the...
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IJsselmeer (before the 1932 completion of the Afsluitdijk known as the Zuiderzee), a North Sea natural harbour. It more immediately flows into the east-south...
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villages and ports around the Zuiderzee. Due to the construction of the Afsluitdijk, completed in 1932, the Zuiderzee changed into a fresh-water lake:...
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situated in the delta of the Dutch Randstad, at the foot of the former Zuiderzee dyke and near the drowned Castle Hulkestein, now lake Nijkerkernauw. The...
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distinct population, the Zuiderzee herring, which spawned in the former Zuiderzee. This population disappeared when the Zuiderzee was drained by the Dutch...
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island in the former Zuiderzee. The characteristic wooden houses of Marken are a tourist attraction. Marken was an island in the Zuiderzee. For some time during...
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Pier Gerlofs Donia (section Pirating in the Zuiderzee)
exploits.[failed verification] Pier targeted ships that travelled the Zuiderzee and was very active in 1517, when he used his "signal ships" to attack...
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an island in the Almere, an inland sea that would become part of the Zuiderzee in the 13th century after a series of incursions by the North Sea. In...
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Roman times) grew to be the Almere (Middle Ages) and became the Zuiderzee. The Zuiderzee (Southern Sea) was the main transport route from Amsterdam to the...
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Dutch Republic:10 Dutch Upper Guelders 1811–1814 Zuyderzée Amsterdam Zuiderzee inlet Dutch Republic:10 County of Holland Lordship of Utrecht 1811–1814...
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Cornelis Lely (category Zuiderzee Works)
authorising construction of the Zuiderzee Works, a huge project – designed to his own plans – that turned the Zuiderzee into a lake and made possible the...
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annual energy generation Netherlands North Sea Protection Works (Delta and Zuiderzee Works) 1920 May 10, 1997 Zeeland, South Holland, North Holland, Friesland...
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After the St. Lucia's flood in 1287 the part of Frisia west of the later Zuiderzee, West Friesland, was conquered. As a result, most provincial institutions...
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part of the Zuiderzee, a saltwater inlet of the North Sea, that was dammed off by the Afsluitdijk (Closure Dike) in 1932, turning the Zuiderzee into the...
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group of rich trading partners formed a company that built dams into the Zuiderzee to enable ships to reach the town of Zwolle and enhance shipping goods...
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