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    Wieringermeer (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋiːrɪŋərˌmeːr] ) is a polder and former municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Since...
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    (1957) Overijssel Pilot Polder Andijk (1927) Schokland Urk Waddenzee Wieringermeer (1930) Wieringen South Flevoland (1967) Freshwater Seawater Land reclamation...
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    1945, the retreating German occupying forces inundated the polder of Wieringermeer, the Netherlands. In 1945 German forces occupying the Netherlands planned...
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    July 1941, the Wieringermeer became a municipality and its first mayor was ir. S. Smeding. On 17 April 1945, the dikes of the Wieringermeer polder were blown...
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    original on 5 July 2017. Retrieved 7 July 2017. "Kerngegevens gemeente Wieringermeer". sdu.nl. Archived from the original on 6 January 2008. Retrieved 21...
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    subsidised by the state, inhabitants from all over the country came to the Wieringermeer to help build an infrastructure. In only short time houses, shops, churches...
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    Sicco Mansholt (category People from Wieringermeer)
    from 1 March 1972 until 5 January 1973. Mansholt worked as a farmer in Wieringermeer from 1937 until 1945. In 1940, during World War II, he joined the Dutch...
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    northeast. Unlike other major polders, such as Noordoostpolder and Wieringermeer, the Flevopolder is surrounded by bordering lakes or below-sea-level...
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    hydrological technology. Four had been built by the early 1980s. They were the Wieringermeer Polder built in 1930; the Northeast (Noordoost) Polder, built in 1942;...
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    Zuiderzee Works. That resulted in the final draining of seawater from the Wieringermeer polder and the completion of the Afsluitdijk. "The new Reich has endeavored...
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