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The Zuider Zee (pronounced [ˈzaɪdə(r) zeɪ], Dutch: Zuiderzee, pronounced [ˈzœydɚzeː]) was a shallow inlet of the North Sea in the northwest of the Netherlands, extending about 100 km inland and at most 50 km wide, with an overall depth of about 4 to 5 meters and a coastline of about 300 km. It covered 5,000 square km (2,000 square miles). Its name means "southern sea" in Dutch, indicating that the origin of the na ...

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In classical times there was already a body of water in this location, called Lacus Flevo (= the Flevo Lake) by Roman authors. It was much smaller than its later forms and its connection to the main sea was much narrower; it may have been a complex of lakes and marshes and channels, rather than one lake; over time these lakes gradually eroded their soft peat shores and spread. Some part of this area of water was later called the Vlie; it probably flowed into the sea through what is now the Vliestroom channel between the islands ...

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