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Almere (lake)

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Almere (lake)

The lake Almere was an inland lake in the place of today's IJsselmeer in the center of the Netherlands.

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HistoryEdit

The texts of ancient Romans called it the Lake Flevo. Lake Almere is mentioned among others in a life of saints written by Bishop Anglo-Saxon Saint Boniface in 753, or a deed of gift from the town of Urk.

Its etymology may be eels, in Dutch aal or ael, so: "ael mere" = "eel lake"

Presumably, the water of Almere at that time was freshwater or slightly brackish.

A number of factors have led during the Middle Ages to the transformation of the lake to an inland sea that will be called Zuiderzee, these are:

  • the rising sea levels due to global warming known as the Medieval Warm Period.
  • excavation of peat by the Frisians in West Friesland, near the Vlie a river that connects Almere to the North Sea.
  • the floods such as the All Saints' Flood (1170) or St. Lucia's flood 1287.

    • The nameEdit

    The name of the new town of Almere in Flevoland was given in 1984 in memory of this body of water.

    References

    Almere (lake) Wikipedia
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