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To keep the North Sea from overflowing the countryside during a storm
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What did the dutch have trouble with?
he North Sea and land below sea level
What country is known as the lowlands?
The Netherlands is known as the lowlands because a large part of the country is located below sea level. The Dutch have created an extensive system of dikes and canals to protect their land from flooding and to reclaim land from the sea.
What is the dutch word for land reclaimed by the sea?
ondergelopen grond
Which country is below the sea level?
The country that is mostly below sea level is the Netherlands. About 26% of the country's land is below sea level, with its lowest point reaching 22 feet below sea level. The Dutch have built an extensive system of dams, levees, and pumps to protect their land from flooding.
What is the land in the netherlands created from the sea?
The dutch province of Flevoland was reclaimed from the 'Zuiderzee' (South Sea).
What do the dutch call their area of land reclaimed from the sea?
The Dutch call their area of land reclaimed from the sea "polders." These are low-lying lands enclosed by dikes where water is drained to create arable land. Polders are a notable feature of the Dutch landscape and have helped expand their habitable territory.
The dutch way of spelling Zealand It means 'sea land'?
zeeland
The Dutch use most of the land reclaimed from the sea for?
Growing crops
The dutch built earthen walls to reclaim land from sea such walls were called?
These walls are called dykes or dams. (dijken in Dutch)
What P do the Dutch call the land they reclaimed from the sea?
It is called Flevoland, the 12th province.
Dutch have created new land from the sea what is the Dutch word for this?
I guess it would be called droogleggen/droogmalen "Inpoldering" would be another term.
How did Constantinople protect themselves from a land invasion?
They had sea walls and land walls to protect invaders from entering
