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Almere is the newest city in the Netherlands: [10] the land on which the city sits, the Southern Flevoland polder, was reclaimed from the IJsselmeer from 1959 to 1968. The first house was finished in 1976, and Almere became a municipality in 1984.
The IJsselmeer [a] (Dutch: [ˌɛisəlˈmeːr] ⓘ; West Frisian: Iselmar, Dutch Low Saxon: Iesselmeer), also known as Lake IJssel in English, [3] is a closed-off freshwater lake in the central Netherlands bordering the provinces of Flevoland, North Holland and Friesland.
This city, located in the centre of the reclaimed lands, was developed as Lelystad (1966), named after the man who had played a crucial role in the design and realisation of the Zuiderzee Works. Other more conventional settlements had already developed by then; Dronten, the local major town, was founded in 1962, followed in 1963 by two smaller ...
The Zuiderzee or Zuider Zee (Dutch: [ˌzœydərˈzeː] ⓘ; old spelling Zuyderzee or Zuyder Zee), historically called Lake Almere and Lake Flevo, was a shallow bay of the North Sea in the northwest of the Netherlands. It extended about 100 km (60 miles) inland and at most 50 km (30 miles) wide, with an overall depth of about 4 to 5 metres (13 ...
Its capital is Lelystad and its most populous city is Almere, which forms part of the Randstad and has grown to become the seventh largest city of the country. Flevoland is bordered in the extreme north by Friesland , in the northeast by Overijssel , and in the northwest by the lakes Markermeer and IJsselmeer.
Name Municipality Coordinates Almere Buiten: Almere: Almere Haven: Almere: Almere Hout []: Almere: Almere Stad: Almere: Bant: Noordoostpolder: Biddinghuizen: Dronten ...
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This statue 'Het Rijnhert' on a hill close to the highway is a symbol for the connection of the city to the nearby national park, the Hoge Veluwe. Since the connection between the Rhine and IJssel was dug, the Rhine became the main contributor to the flow of the IJssel – a small fraction of the former's flow makes up the upper IJssel.