Beemster
id:
beemster-171-1979391
title:
Beemster
text:
Beemster is a former municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. The Beemster is the first polder in the Netherlands reclaimed from a lake, the water extracted by windmills between 1609 and 1612. The original well-ordered landscape of fields, roads, canals, and dykes has been preserved intact. A grid of canals parallels the grid of roads in the Beemster. The larger feeder canals are offset by approximately one kilometer from the larger roads. Beemster merged into the exist
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Former municipality in North Holland, Netherlands
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beemster
date created:
2002-10-21T16:58:52Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T05:09:28Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q9900","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q9900"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Midden_beemster.jpg","width":400,"height":300}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16