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    Schokland (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈsxɔklɑnt]) is a former island in the Dutch Zuiderzee, in the municipality of Noordoostpolder. Schokland was an elongated...
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    High and Low Lordship of Urk and Emmeloord (the most northern village of Schokland) was in the hands of the Van Kuinre family. From 1475 to 1614, the Zoudenbalch...
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    Luttelgeest, Marknesse, Nagele, Rutten, and Tollebeek. The former island of Schokland is now a museum. The town and former island of Urk, in the southwest,...
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    artificial island IJsseloog Marken Pampus Vuurtoreneiland Wieringen, Schokland and Urk are former islands, now part of a polder De Kreupel, an artificial...
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  • Schokland Amsterdam defense line Kinderdijk-Elshout D.F. Wouda pumping st. Beemster Schröder House Wadden Sea Canals of Amsterdam Van Nelle Factory Frederiksoord...
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    Noordoostpolder (1942) East Flevoland (1957) Overijssel Pilot Polder Andijk (1927) Schokland Urk Waddenzee Wieringermeer (1930) Wieringen South Flevoland (1967) Freshwater...
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    (Noordoostpolder) in 1942. This took in the former small islands Urk and Schokland. It was at first added to the Province of Overijssel. In the southwest...
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    Pampus, an artificial island.[citation needed] These were Wieringen, Urk, Schokland, Pampus and Marken. The inhabitants of these islands also subsisted mainly...
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    of Emmeloord (1943). Named after an abandoned village on the island of Schokland, Emmeloord is located in a polder: land reclaimed from the IJsselmeer...
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    buildings of the reclaimed land area called Noordoostpolder, see also Schokland. In the middle of the 19th century a group of rich trading partners formed...
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