The St. Felix's flood (in

Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

Sint-Felixvloed) happened on Saturday, 5 November 1530, the name day of St. Felix. This day was later known as Evil Saturday ''(kwade zaterdag)''. Large parts of

Flanders Flanders (, ; Dutch: ''Vlaanderen'' ) is the Flemish-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium. However, there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to culture, ...

and

Zeeland , nl, Ik worstel en kom boven("I struggle and emerge") , anthem = "Zeeuws volkslied"("Zeelandic Anthem") , image_map = Zeeland in the Netherlands.svg , map_alt = , m ...

were washed away, including the

Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal Het Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal (translation: The Drowned Land of ''Reimerswaal'') is an area of flood-covered land in Zeeland in the Netherlands between Noord Beveland and Bergen op Zoom. Some of it was lost in the St. Felix's Flood in 15 ...

. According to Audrey M. Lambert, "all the Oost Wetering of

Zuid-Beveland Zuid-Beveland (; "South Beveland") is part of the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands north of the Western Scheldt and south of the Eastern Scheldt. Topography It is a former island, now peninsula, crossed by the Canal through Zuid-Bevelan ...

was lost, save only the town of

Reimerswaal The name Reimerswaal () can mean: *Reimerswaal (city) A lost city in the Netherlands **Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal The now-drowned land around the city ** Battle of Reimerswaal on 29 January 1574 during the Eighty Years' War *Reimerswaal (munic ...

." Reportedly, more than 100,000 were killed in the Netherlands by the St. Felix's flood.

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Floods in the Netherlands 1530 in the Holy Roman Empire 1530 in the Habsburg Netherlands 16th-century floods 1530s in the Habsburg Netherlands European windstorms History of Zeeland {{flood-stub

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