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25-759: The lake takes its name from Den Briel , a town on its shore . It was formerly a branch of the Meuse known as the Brielse Maas (Den Briel Meuse), which ran from the Botlek strait near Rotterdam into the North Sea . The first stretch, between Botlek and the former confluence with the Het Scheur branch, was alternatively known as (the last stretch of) the Nieuwe Maas . When the Brielse Maas silted up in

50-676: A Spanish nobleman in front of the town hall. Under the Treaty of Nonsuch in 1585, English garrisons were stationed here and at Brill to keep these ports out of Spanish hands. The towns were sold back to the Dutch in 1616. During the heyday of the Dutch Golden Age , ships from Vlissingen set sail for the various outposts of the Dutch colonial empire and contributed to the world power of The Seven Provinces . The history of Vlissingen

75-458: A bottle in the 7th century, he shared its contents with the beggars he found there while trying to convert them. A miracle occurred, typical of hagiography , when the contents of the bottle did not diminish. When the bishop realised the beggars did not want to listen to his words, he gave them his bottle. After that, he supposedly called the city Flessinghe . Another source states that the name had its origins in an old ferry-service house, on which

100-590: A bottle was attached by way of a sign. The monk Jacob van Dreischor, who visited the city in 967, then apparently called the ferry-house het veer aan de Flesse ("the ferry at the Bottle"). Because many cities in the region later received the appendix -inge , the name, according to this etymology, evolved to Vles-inge . According to another source, the name was derived from the Danish word Vles , which means "tides". The eastern cape of Novaya Zemlya , Cape Flissingsky

125-418: A charter of 1247, when the town already had a church and an infirmary; another in 1264 mentions a steenhuus or castle, the foundations of which were uncovered during the construction of a new town hall in 1965. In 1294, the town was purchased by Floris V, Count of Holland , who recognised the strategic and economic potential of its location and began its development. The port facilities were further extended in

150-425: A short rhyme to remember this fact, which rhyme refers to April Fools' Day : Op 1 april verloor Alva de bril. Op April zes verloor Alva zijn fles On April 1st, Alva lost his glasses On April 6th Alva lost his bottle In Dutch, "de bril" is the word for "the glasses," and closely rhymes with Den Briel; as does "Fles" which stands for the town of Vlissingen or Flushing, the next town to be captured by

175-479: A temperate oceanic climate ( Köppen climate classification Cfb ) that is milder than the rest of the Netherlands due to its more southern location on the coast. It is approximately 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer annually than Groningen in the northeast. It is also one of the sunniest cities in the Netherlands, receiving approximately 180 more sunshine hours than Maastricht in the southeast. Its all-time record

200-454: Is twinned with: Vlissingen Vlissingen ( Dutch: [ˈvlɪsɪŋə(n)] ; Zeelandic : Vlissienge ) is a municipality and a city in the southwestern Netherlands on the island of Walcheren . With its strategic location between the Scheldt river and the North Sea , Vlissingen has been an important harbour for centuries. It was granted city rights in 1315. In

225-459: Is a town and historic seaport in the western Netherlands , in the province of South Holland , on the north side of the island of Voorne-Putten , at the mouth of the New Maas. The former municipality covered an area of 31.14 km (12.02 sq mi) of which 3.59 km (1.39 sq mi) was water. In 2021 its population was 17,439. The former municipality of Brielle also included

250-622: The Watergeuzen , marked a turning point in the conflict, as many towns in Holland then began to support William of Orange against the Spanish Duke Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba who was sent to pacify The Netherlands. This event is still celebrated each year on April 1 and the night before (known as Chalk Night (kalknacht) when the town is defaced with chalk - and now also white paint). Dutch students are taught

275-611: The 17th century the roadstead of Vlissingen was a main harbour for ships of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). It is also known as the birthplace of Lieutnant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter . Vlissingen is mainly noted for the yards on the Scheldt where most of the ships of the Royal Netherlands Navy ( Koninklijke Marine ) are built. The municipality of Vlissingen consists of the following places: The fishermen's hamlet that came into existence at

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300-478: The Dutch in their struggle against the Spanish. The first English governor of Brielle was Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter , succeeded by Edward Conway, 1st Viscount Conway who named his daughter Brilliana in honour of the town. English garrisons were stationed here and at Flushing . Edmund Sheffield, 3rd Baron Sheffield governed the town from 1598. In 1617, these cities returned to the Netherlands. Brielle

325-603: The Dutch rebels. After the capture of Brielle the Protestant rebels tortured and murdered the Catholic Martyrs of Gorkum and Brielle has become a pilgrimage location since then. In August 1585, Brielle was one of the three Dutch towns that became an English possession by the Treaty of Nonsuch when Queen Elizabeth I received it as security of payment for 5000 soldiers (led by the Earl of Leicester ) and used by

350-510: The Netherlands. Some English writers in the Netherlands also used the Dutch name. The American settlement of Flushing , originally a Dutch colonial village founded in 1645 and now part of Queens , New York City , was first called Vlissingen after the town in the Netherlands. The English settlers who also came to live in the village shortened the name to "Vlissing" by 1657 and then began to call it by its English name "Flushing." The Anglicisation of "Vlissingen" into "Flushing" did not occur after

375-546: The communities of Vierpolders and Zwartewaal . On 1 January 2023, the municipality of Brielle merged with Hellevoetsluis and Westvoorne into the new municipality of Voorne aan Zee . Brielle, New Jersey was named after Brielle by the Dutch colonists of New Jersey, originally New Netherland . Brielle is a very old, fortified town. Its name is derived from the Celtic word brogilo (meaning "closed area" or "hunting grounds"). The oldest writings about Brielle indicate that

400-744: The conquest of New Netherland , but in England well before then. This village was the site of the Flushing Remonstrance . The village of Flushing in Cornwall was also named after Vlissingen. Originally named Nankersey, the village was given its name by Dutch engineers from Vlissingen in the Netherlands who built the three main quays in the village. Michigan and Ohio in the US have villages called Flushing as well. [REDACTED] Topographic map of Vlissingen (city), Sept. 2014 Vlissingen has

425-474: The current location is the "new" Brielle. Den ouden Briel (Old Brill) must have been situated somewhere else on the Voorne-Putten Island. It grew into a town of prestige in the 14th century. In 1330, Gerard van Voorne, independent Lord of Voorne and Viscount of Zeeland, granted town rights to Brielle. This gave the town governmental and jurisdictional powers and certain trading rights, such as

450-464: The economy revived after the construction of new docks and the Walcheren canal, the arrival of the railway and the establishment of the shipyard called De Schelde. The Second World War interrupted this growth. The city was heavily damaged by shelling and inundation but was captured and liberated by British Commandos of 4th Special Service Brigade on 3 November 1944. The city was rebuilt after

475-533: The estuary of the Schelde around AD 620 has grown over its 1,400-year history into the third-most important port of the Netherlands . The Counts of Holland , Flanders , and Zeeland had the first harbours dug. Over the centuries, Vlissingen developed into a hub for fishing, especially the herring fishery, commerce, privateering and the slave trade . The first reliable records of Old Vlissengen date from

500-769: The late nineteenth century, the Nieuwe Waterweg ship canal was constructed (1872) and Het Scheur was separated from the Brielse Maas by a dam . As a precursor to the Delta Works sea barrier constructions, the Brielse Maas was closed off at both ends in 1950, becoming the Brielse Meer. This South Holland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Brielle Brielle ( pronounced [ˈbrilə] ), also called Den Briel in Dutch and Brill in English,

525-587: The mid-15th century, financed by a local monopoly in the herring trade. In the mid-16th century, the town fell into poverty due to the Eighty Years' War , the Dutch revolt against Spanish occupation, and particularly owing to the punitive taxes imposed by the Duke of Alba . In April 1572, the townspeople staged a successful uprising, expelling the Flemish garrison, firing at ships bringing reinforcements and hanging

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550-709: The right to trade fish and collect port taxes. The town was for a long time the seat of the Lords of Voorne, until this fiefdom was added to the County of Holland in 1371. It had its own harbour and traded with the countries around the Baltic Sea . Brielle even had its own trading colony in Sweden . During the Eighty Years' War between the Netherlands and Spain, the Capture of Brielle on April 1, 1572, by Protestant rebels,

575-632: The war. In the 1960s, the seaport and industrial area of Vlissingen-Oost developed and flourished. Now this area is the economic driving force behind central Zeeland , generating many thousands of jobs. Nowadays approx. 50,000 ships annually from all corners of the world pass through the Schelde. The derivation of the name Vlissingen is unclear, though most scholars relate the name to the word fles ("bottle") in one way or another. According to one story, when saint Willibrord landed in Vlissingen with

600-591: Was also marked by invasion, oppression and bombardments. Because of its strategic position at the mouth of the Schelde , the most important passageway to Antwerp , it has attracted the interest, at one time or another, of the British, the French, the Germans and the Spanish. Floods have also been a constant threat. Vlissingen declined during the 18th century. The Napoleonic Wars were particularly disastrous. After 1870,

625-419: Was named after the city in 1596 by Willem Barentsz . Vlissingen was historically called "Flushing" in English. In the 17th century, Vlissingen was important enough for English speakers that it had acquired an anglicised name. For example, Samuel Pepys referred to the town as "Flushing" in his diaries. In 1673, Sir William Temple referred to Vlissingen as "Flushing" once and "Flussingue" twice in his book about

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