The St. Felix's flood (in
Dutch
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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 cultu ...
and
Zeeland
, nl, Ik worstel en kom boven("I struggle and emerge")
, anthem = "Zeeuws volkslied"("Zeelandic Anthem")
, image_map = Zeeland in the Netherlands.svg
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, 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 1 ...
. 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-Bevel ...
was lost, save only the town of
Reimerswaal."
Reportedly, more than 100,000 were killed in the Netherlands by the St. Felix's flood.
See also
*
Floods in the Netherlands
This is a chronological list of sea-floods that have occurred in the Netherlands. In addition to these there have been hundreds of river floods during the centuries.
See also
*Flood control in the Netherlands
References
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References
External links
deltawerken.com
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
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