Zuiderzee

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former sea inlet historical geographic region

The Zuiderzee was a former shallow inlet of the North Sea in the northwest of the Netherlands that played a major role in Dutch maritime trade and was later transformed into the freshwater IJsselmeer by large-scale land reclamation works.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
former Zuiderzee 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf former sea inlet ⓘ
historical geographic region ⓘ
basinCountry Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ
borderedBy Flevoland (later reclaimed land) NERFINISHED ⓘ
Friesland NERFINISHED ⓘ
Gelderland NERFINISHED ⓘ
North Holland NERFINISHED ⓘ
Overijssel NERFINISHED ⓘ
Utrecht NERFINISHED ⓘ
closureYear 1932 ⓘ
connectedTo North Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ
Wadden Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ
country Netherlands ⓘ
engineeringProject Zuiderzee Works NERFINISHED ⓘ
floodEvent All Saints' Flood of 1170 NERFINISHED ⓘ
St. Lucia's flood of 1287 NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicalCityOnShore Amsterdam NERFINISHED ⓘ
Enkhuizen NERFINISHED ⓘ
Harderwijk NERFINISHED ⓘ
Kampen NERFINISHED ⓘ
Marken NERFINISHED ⓘ
Urk NERFINISHED ⓘ
Volendam NERFINISHED ⓘ
Zwolle NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicalCityOnShore Hoorn NERFINISHED ⓘ
Lelystad (later on reclaimed land) NERFINISHED ⓘ
inflow Eem River NERFINISHED ⓘ
River IJssel NERFINISHED ⓘ
Vecht River NERFINISHED ⓘ
knownFor flooding disasters ⓘ
storm surges ⓘ
languageOfName Dutch ⓘ
laterTransformedTo IJsselmeer NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedIn northwest of the Netherlands ⓘ
majorRoleIn Dutch maritime trade ⓘ
Hanseatic League trade ⓘ
meaningOfName Southern Sea ⓘ
partlyReclaimedAs Eastern Flevoland NERFINISHED ⓘ
Noordoostpolder NERFINISHED ⓘ
Southern Flevoland NERFINISHED ⓘ
Wieringermeer NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf North Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ
separatedFrom North Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ
separationStructure Afsluitdijk NERFINISHED ⓘ
transformationCompletedAsIJsselmeer 1932 ⓘ
usedFor coastal trade ⓘ
fishing ⓘ
shipping ⓘ
waterType saltwater ⓘ

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Admiralty of Amsterdam → appliesToJurisdiction → Zuiderzee ⓘ
Afsluitdijk → closedOff → Zuiderzee ⓘ
IJ → historicalConnection → Zuiderzee ⓘ
Harderwijk → locatedOn → Zuiderzee ⓘ
this entity surface form: former Zuiderzee
Zuiderzee Works → transformed → Zuiderzee ⓘ
Afsluitdijk → waterBodyBeforeClosure → Zuiderzee ⓘ