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27-446: Veere ( Dutch: [ˈveːrə] ; Zeelandic : Ter Veere ) is a municipality with a population of 22,000 and a town with a population of 1,500 in the southwestern Netherlands , in the region of Walcheren in the province of Zeeland . The name Veere means "ferry": Wolfert Van Borssele established a ferry and ferry house there in 1281. This ferry he called the "camper-veer" or "Ferry of Campu" by which name Camphire it

54-407: A lesser extent, Terneuzen , Zeelandic dialect is being mostly replaced by Standard Dutch, although elderly people and people from surrounding rural areas can often still speak Zeelandic. There are clear differences between Zeelandic and Hollandic , Brabantine and East-Flemish dialects, but there is more of a dialect continuum with West-Flemish language varieties. The dialects spoken more towards

81-443: A village roughly on the middle of the island, can use widely different words for something than speakers from Sint-Maartensdijk do, which lies only 5 km to the west of Poortvliet . Zeelandic is strongly associated with the rural population, as it is spoken mainly in the countryside. The town dialects of Middelburg and Vlissingen are both much closer to Hollandic than the rural variants and are almost extinct. Surveys held in

108-617: Is 13,496 hectares, with a coastline of 34 kilometres and a population of about 22,000. The population centres in the municipality are: The area is visited by 4 million tourists annually. The main attractions are the beaches and marinas . The Storm Surge Barrier on the Oosterschelde is the most popular visitor attraction in Zeeland. The Scoutcentrum Zeeland on the coast of the Veerse Meer attracts Scout visitors from around

135-521: Is an old Zeelandic word that has been attested since the Middle Ages . An early citation by Jacob van Maerlant in his description of Sint-Francis goes as follows: The name Zeeuws has been in use for the language spoken in Zeeland ever since, but in addition to this there are various other names. Speakers often refer to their dialect with the name of their own area, such as Walchers for Walcheren or Plat Axels for Zeelandic-Flanders (named after

162-505: Is no such thing as one homogenous Zeelandic dialect or language. There is a large amount of resistance specifically in Goeree-Overflakkee against calling the local dialect Zeelandic, due to historical animosity between this region which belongs to South Holland , and Zeeland proper. In the past, Zeelandic was also called boers (farmer-like), in contrast to Standard Dutch which was known as op z'n burgers (like civilians, like

189-613: The 2nd SS Panzer Division crossed onto Walcheren via the Sloedam and by 18:00 that evening, the Dutch forces on the island, including the garrison at Veere, were ordered to surrender. Veere was finally liberated on 7 November 1944 by Scottish troops of the British 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division during Operation Infatuate , the Allied assault on Walcheren. As part of the preparations for

216-458: The Middle Ages and the early modern period , Zeeland was claimed by the Count of Holland as well as the Count of Flanders , and the area was exposed to influence from both directions. The dialects clearly show a gradual increase of Hollandic elements as one goes northwards. However, Zeelandic is fairly coherent with clear borders, as the broad sea arms form strong isoglosses . The name Zeeuws

243-590: The staple port for Scotland between 1541 and 1799. In Scotland it was known as Campvere. Until the Anglo-Dutch wars it was an important trading port for the import among other things, of saffron from East Anglian ports such as Wells. Flemish architects Antonis Keldermans and Evert Spoorwater designed the Grote Kerk , the fortifications, the Cisterne and the town hall. During this period of prosperity,

270-399: The 1990s found that at least 60% of Zeeland's population still use Zeelandic as their everyday language. An estimated 250,000 people speak Zeelandic as a mother tongue (West Zeelandic Flemish is included in that count), and although it is in decline, just as other regional languages, it is in no direct danger of extinction since in some villages with strong isolated communities, more than 90% of

297-517: The addition of several neighboring towns. During the course of nearly two centuries seventeen historical municipalities have merged to become present-day Veere. Its original full name was Veere-de-Stad en Zanddijk-Binnen . The city of Veere stands on the Veerse Meer lagoon on the island of Walcheren in the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands . The area of the municipality of Veere

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324-417: The bourgeoisie), but this nomenclature has fallen out of fashion in recent times. The word plat , which is also used in other dialects to refer to any non-Standard-Dutch dialect, is also frequently used in Zeeland. Zeelandic is spoken in most areas in Zeeland province, excluding East-Zeelandic-Flanders where, traditionally, more East-Flemish dialects are spoken. North of Zeeland, Zeelandic is still spoken on

351-404: The cultural centre was located at Sandenburgh castle , the residence of the noble Van Borsele and Van Bourgondië families. Court painter Jan Gossaert van Mabuse worked here. The poet Adrianus Valerius lived and worked in the city from 1591. In the 17th and 18th centuries, Veere was a prosperous trading city, with about 750 houses inside the city walls then, compared to about 300 as of 2013. At

378-576: The dialects spoken in Voorne-Putten , Hoeksche Waard and Rotterdam . There is hardly any dialectal influence from Zeelandic in the neighbouring Brabantine dialects, however, with the exception of the neighbouring villages of Oud-Vossemeer in Tholen and Nieuw-Vossemeer in North-Brabant . Zeelandic still has three grammatical genders and the final schwa of feminine words. It has kept

405-482: The differences (the orthography is Dutch): The province of Zeeland consists of several former islands that were difficult to reach until well into the 20th century. As a result, there is roughly one dialect per island. The respective dialects differ clearly but only slightly. The Goeree-Overflakkee dialect, for example, does not drop the h , and the Walcheren and Zuid-Beveland dialects have umlauted words, unlike

432-518: The island of Goeree-Overflakkee . Traditionally, the Zeelandic language area also extended further north to the island Voorne-Putten , but the dialect has mostly disappeared from that area due to migration from urban areas such as Rotterdam . In urban areas in Zeeland, the dialect is in decline due to migration from other areas in the Netherlands. In Vlissingen , Goes , Middelburg and, to

459-630: The longing of the writer – living in the US – for his homeland whose liberation he was doomed never to see. Scottish singer-songwriter Brian McNeill based the song "The Holland Trade" from his tenth studio album The Baltic tae Byzantium on the trade and cultural ties between Veere and Scotland from 1541 on. Zeelandic It has notable differences from Standard Dutch mainly in pronunciation but also in grammar and vocabulary , which separates it clearly from Standard Dutch. This makes mutual intelligibility with speakers of Standard Dutch difficult. In

486-440: The monophthongs [i] and [y] for ij and ui , rather than breaking them into [ɛi] and [œy] . It usually umlauts [aː] into [ɛː] and renders the old Germanic [ai] and [au] as falling diphthongs ( [ɪə ~ ɪɐ ~ iɐ] and [ʊə ~ ʊɐ ~ uɐ] , respectively, with the exact realisation depending on the dialect. Standard Dutch has merged them with etymological [eː] and [oː] . Finally, Zeelandic drops [h] . This table illustrates

513-422: The northern dialects (for example: beuter [bøtər] as opposed to boter [botər] . Within the island dialects themselves, dialectal differences also exist, and native speakers can frequently tell the village (at least on their own island) a person is from by the specific dialect that is spoken, even if the differences are inaudible to outsiders. For example, within the Tholen dialect, speakers from Poortvliet ,

540-517: The operation, the island's sea dykes were bombed resulting in the inundation of much of the area. Unlike many other towns on the island, Veere was virtually undamaged in the fighting. As a result of the damming of the Veerse Gat inlet in 1961, the fishing fleet of Veere moved to a new home port at Colijnsplaat on Noord-Beveland. As of 2013 the main business of the town is tourism. Veere municipality reached its current expanded shape in 1997, after

567-664: The start of the Second World War , there was a Royal Netherlands Navy seaplane base at Veere, with six Fokker C XIV-W aircraft. On 12 May 1940 the base was bombed by He 111 bombers causing some casualties. On 14 May, the seaplanes were ordered to evacuate to France and then England, eventually arriving in the Dutch East Indies where they would be destroyed in action with the Japanese in 1941 and 1942. On 17 May, German infantry of SS Regiment Deutschland of

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594-499: The town of Axel , but also used in other towns in this region to distinguish it from the West-Zeelandic-Flemish dialects spoken in the region surrounding Breskens ), or sometimes with the name of their own village, such as Wasschappels for Westkapelle . This practice stems from the idea that each village has their own dialect, which is markedly different even from the dialect in the adjacent village, and that there

621-490: The western coastal region of Zeelandic-Flanders, locally referred to as Bressiaans , resemble the West-Flemish dialects spoken across the border more than the dialects spoken around Terneuzen and Axel, which preserve more Zeelandic features while also exhibiting West-Flemish features. Although these similarities are greater than those between Zeelandic and Hollandic dialects, there are some minor dialectal influences in

648-466: The world The town of Veere forms the setting for " Van Loon's Lives ", a book of contemporary fantasy written by Hendrik Willem Van Loon in 1942, in which the protagonists are able to magically summon the great men and women of history for weekend dinner parties, leading to often humorous incidents. The book was written at the time when Veere, like the rest of the Netherlands, lay under Nazi occupation, and despite its light-hearted tone clearly indicates

675-549: The youngsters still speak Zeelandic. On the other hand, in several villages with much immigration, the local dialect is spoken only by adults, as children are no longer taught it. A lobby for recognising the Zeelandic regional language under the European Charter for Minority Languages was, as of 2005, unable to achieve that status. [REDACTED] Media related to Zeelandic language at Wikimedia Commons Veerse Meer Too Many Requests If you report this error to

702-576: Was known, at least in England, until the seventeenth century. It eventually became known as "de Veer". In the same year 1281 Wolfert also built the castle Sandenburg on one of the dikes he had built. On 12 November 1282, Count Floris V. thereupon issued a charter by which Wolfert received the sovereignty to the land and castle with the ferry and ferry house. From that time on Wolfert was given the title of Lord Van der Veer. Veere received city rights in 1355. The " Admiraliteit van Veere " (Admiralty of Veere)

729-786: Was set up as a result of the Ordinance on the Admiralty of 8 January 1488 in an attempt to create a central naval administration in the Burgundian Netherlands . To this was subordinated the Vice-Admiralty of Flanders in Dunkirk . In 1560 under admiral Philip de Montmorency, Count of Hoorn , this admiralty relocated near Ghent and in 1561 the Habsburg naval forces were also moved to Veere. Veere functioned as

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