Urk
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urk-171-3956207
title:
Urk
text:
Urk is a municipality and a town in the Flevoland province in the central Netherlands. Urk is first mentioned in historical records dating to the 10th century, when it was still an island in the Almere, an inland sea that would become part of the Zuiderzee in the 13th century after a series of incursions by the North Sea. In 1939, a dike from the mainland to Urk ended the town's island status, just as the Afsluitdijk project was changing the salt water Zuiderzee surrounding Urk to the less salin
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Municipality in Flevoland, Netherlands
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urk
date created:
2002-10-21T10:24:46Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T05:03:39Z
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13
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