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Allegory of the Disaster Year by Jan van Wijckersloot (1673): In this allegorical painting, a young Orangist shows a regent, wearing a nightcap, an allegorical drawing.In this drawing, the Dutch lion is pictured inside a Dutch garden [] or "Hollandic Yard", a traditional symbol for the safety and integrity of the province of Holland adorning many of its public buildings.
Lack of good dikes was an important cause of this flood disaster. This flood is also described in the Annales Xantenses. 1014 Thousands For the first time the partially closed coast line of the Netherlands was breached. Walcheren suffered a particularly large amount of damage. It took years before people managed to get their lives back on track.
Disasters in the Netherlands by year (32 C) * Disasters in the Dutch Caribbean (6 C) E. Emergency management in the Netherlands (1 C, 5 P) F. Fires in the Netherlands ...
The Second Delta Committee, or Veerman Committee, officially Staatscommissie voor Duurzame Kustontwikkeling (State Committee for Durable Coast Development) gave its advice in 2008. It expects a sea level rise of 65 to 130 cm by the year 2100. Among its suggestions are: to increase the safety norms tenfold and strengthen dikes accordingly,
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The Nettelhorsterbrug is a bridge being built by the Royal BAM Group over the Twentekanaal as part of provincial road N346 [] in Lochem, the Netherlands.The bridge's name pays homage to the nearby hamlet Nettelhorst [], chosen through an electoral process. [1]
This map shows inundated areas due to the flood of 15 January 1916, reported by the Dutch government in September 1916. The flood of 1916 or Zuiderzeevloed of 1916 is a flood that took place in the night between 13 and 14 January 1916 in the Netherlands along the dikes of the Zuiderzee as a result of a storm surge.
Rampjaar, the Dutch "disaster year" of 1672 The Islamic year 311 AH (923/924 CE) was known as the "year of destruction" ( sanat al-damār ) due to the Qarmatians ' sack of Basra and the attack on the Hajj caravan .