Oude Rijn (Utrecht and South Holland)
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oude-rijn-utrecht-and-south-holland-308-17560422
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Oude Rijn (Utrecht and South Holland)
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The Oude Rijn is a branch of the Rhine delta in the Dutch provinces of Utrecht and South Holland, starting west of Utrecht, at Harmelen, and running by a mechanical pumping station into the North Sea at Katwijk. Its present-day length is 52 kilometres. In ancient times, it was the lower part of the main River Rhine, which forked at the Betuwe into a northern branch, the Rhine, and a southern branch, the Waal. The Oude Rijn was then much wider than it is now, and tidal. During the Roman occupatio
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River in Netherlands
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oude_Rijn_(Utrecht_and_South_Holland)
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2023-11-04T20:48:58Z
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