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HOLLAND and WATER : MAPS |
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THEN (left), 1400 A.D. showing not only trade routes but also very much water and little land . . (because of the 1200 A.D. Frisian flood which killed over 100,000 people).  and NOW (above): identify Frisia, Wadden, Rhine, Zuyderzee, Yssel, Zeeland |
| (left): Hanseatic League:
around 1400 A.D., some 160 cities, of which
10 Dutch, including
Deventer, Zwolle, Kampen, Stavoren, Groningen, Harderwijk (right): Land Reclamation: darkest color earliest (1300-1500AD) lightest latest (1900's) |
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