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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 22. Chapters: 't Veld, Anna Paulowna, Anna Paulownapolder, Anna Paulowna railway station, Barsingerhorn, Breezand, Den Oever, Den Oever Lighthouse, De Haukes, De Weere, Niedorp, Haringhuizen, Hippolytushoef, Inundation of the Wieringermeer, Kolhorn, Kreileroord, Langereis, Lutjewinkel, Middenmeer, Middenmeer Aerodrome, Moerbeek, Nieuwesluis, North Holland, Nieuwe Niedorp, Noordburen, Oosterland, North Holland, Oude Niedorp, Slootdorp, Stroe, North Holland, Terdiek, Van Ewijcksluis, Vatrop, Wateringskant, Westerland, Netherlands, Wieringen, Wieringerrandmeer, Wieringerwaard, Wieringerwerf, Winkel, North Holland, Zijdewind. Excerpt: Wieringen (Dutch pronunciation: ( listen)) is a former municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It consisted of a former island, also named Wieringen, which has been joined to the mainland since 1924. There are plans to make Wieringen an island again by widening the Amsteldiepkanaal into a lake called the Wieringerrandmeer. Since 2012 Wieringen has been part of the new municipality of Hollands Kroon. The former municipality of Wieringen consisted of the following cities, towns, villages and/or districts: Dam, De Haukes, De Hoelm, Den Oever, Hippolytushoef, Hollebalg, Noordburen, Oosterklief, Oosterland, Smerp, Stroe, Vatrop, Westerklief and Westerland. The landscape of Wieringen is not all flat: it is characterised by dam ramparts of boulder clay, which were formed during the Saale Ice Age. The name Wieringen has nothing to do with "wier"(seaweed in Dutch), but this connection was often made in former days. Probably the name came from Old Frisian wir = "height." The first known references to Wieringen is as "Wiron" or "pagus Wirense" in Latin in a list of property owned by the monastery at Fulda, dated late 8th century or early 9th century AD. In that list, the entries that...
