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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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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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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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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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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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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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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