The Zwin is a nature reserve at the North Sea coast, on the Belgian–Dutch border. It consists of the entrance area of a former tidal inlet which during...

Belgium's best-known and most affluent seaside resort. Originally, the marshy Zwin area was mostly settled by shepherds and fishermen. With the encouragement...

by the Zwin nature reserve. Knokke came into existence as a result of the construction of dikes that were to protect the area around the 'Zwin' sea-arm...

the 12th century, the city had gained an autonomous administration. Het Zwin (Golden Inlet), the tidal inlet of Bruges, was crucial to the development...

mentioned in 1243. The Old Zwin, a watercourse which connected Bruges to the Zwin in Knokke and the Nortsea, ran past the village. Old Zwin silted up, replaced...

Frankhubbard April 12, 1996 Prescott P. G. Comba GEF 4.9 km MPC · JPL 9663 Zwin 1996 GC18 Zwin April 15, 1996 La Silla E. W. Elst  · 3.7 km MPC · JPL 9664 Brueghel...

the Duke of Clarence, was born there in 1338. After the silting-up of the Zwin and the consequent decline of Bruges, Antwerp, then part of the Duchy of...

by the Zwin, a tidal inlet that was formed by a storm in 1134. The ports Damme and Sluis lay on the inlet and gave access to Bruges. The Zwin began to...

closed, and the Kontor in Bruges had become effectively moribund because the Zwin inlet was closing up.: 132  Finally, the growing political authority of the...

reinforced them, bringing the total French strength to 213 ships. The entire Zwin estuary has silted up since the battle, and modern Sluis is 5 miles (8 km)...