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Gracht

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Gracht (plural: grachten) is a Dutch word frequently encountered by non-Dutch people when confronted with several things related to the Netherlands, such as Dutch art (mainly 17th-century town-views of grachten), Dutch history (notably the Anne Frank House and several monuments in Amsterdam, located on grachten) or tourism (especially boating tours on the grachten of various Dutch cities). [1]

52 relations: Alkmaar, Amersfoort, Amsterdam, Anne Frank House, Bank (geography), Canal, Cape Town, City, Defensive wall, Delft, Deventer, Dordrecht, Drainage, Drentsche Aa, Dutch art, Dutch language, Dutch people, English language, Flemish, Frisian languages, Gouda, South Holland, Grachtengordel, Groningen, Gronings dialect, Haarlem, Hanseatic League, Hindeloopen, History of Amsterdam, History of the Netherlands, Hoorn, House, Kampen, Overijssel, Leeuwarden, Leiden, Maritime transport, Meppel, Moat, Municipal charter, Netherlands, Rural area, Sneek, Street, Table Mountain, Tourism in the Netherlands, Translation, UNESCO, Utrecht, Venice, Weesp, William II of Holland, ..., Zutphen, Zwolle. Expand index (2 more) »

Alkmaar

Alkmaar is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland.

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Amersfoort

Amersfoort is a city and municipality in the province of Utrecht, Netherlands.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Netherlands.

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Anne Frank House

The Anne Frank House (Anne Frank Huis) is a writer's house and biographical museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank.

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Bank (geography)

In geography, the word bank generally refers to the land alongside a body of water.

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Canal

Canals, or navigations, are human-made channels, or artificial waterways, for water conveyance, or to service water transport vehicles.

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Cape Town

Cape Town (Kaapstad,; Xhosa: iKapa) is a coastal city in South Africa.

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City

A city is a large human settlement.

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Defensive wall

A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors.

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Delft

Delft is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands.

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Deventer

Deventer is a city and municipality in the Salland region of the province of Overijssel, Netherlands.

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Dordrecht

Dordrecht, colloquially Dordt, historically in English named Dort, is a city and municipality in the Western Netherlands, located in the province of South Holland.

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Drainage

Drainage is the natural or artificial removal of a surface's water and sub-surface water from an area.

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Drentsche Aa

The Drentsche Aa is a river rising in the Dutch province of Drenthe, flowing through Drenthe and for the last part the province of Groningen.

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Dutch art

Dutch art describes the history of visual arts in the Netherlands, after the United Provinces separated from Flanders.

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Dutch language

The Dutch language is a West Germanic language, spoken by around 23 million people as a first language (including the population of the Netherlands where it is the official language, and about sixty percent of Belgium where it is one of the three official languages) and by another 5 million as a second language.

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Dutch people

The Dutch (Dutch), occasionally referred to as Netherlanders—a term that is cognate to the Dutch word for Dutch people, "Nederlanders"—are a Germanic ethnic group native to the Netherlands.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Flemish

Flemish (Vlaams), also called Flemish Dutch (Vlaams-Nederlands), Belgian Dutch (Belgisch-Nederlands), or Southern Dutch (Zuid-Nederlands), is any of the varieties of the Dutch language dialects spoken in Flanders, the northern part of Belgium, as well as French Flanders and the Dutch Zeelandic Flanders by approximately 6.5 million people.

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Frisian languages

The Frisian languages are a closely related group of Germanic languages, spoken by about 500,000 Frisian people, who live on the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany.

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Gouda, South Holland

Gouda is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands with a population of 72,338.

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Grachtengordel

The Grachtengordel (known in English as the Canal District) is a neighborhood in Amsterdam, Netherlands located in the Centrum district.

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Groningen

Groningen (Gronings: Grunnen) is the main municipality as well as the capital city of the eponymous province in the Netherlands.

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Gronings dialect

Gronings, in the dialect itself called Grunnegs or Grönnegs, is a collective name for some Friso-Saxon dialects spoken in the province of Groningen and around the Groningen border in Drenthe and Friesland.

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Haarlem

Haarlem (predecessor of Harlem in the English language) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands.

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Hanseatic League

The Hanseatic League (Middle Low German: Hanse, Düdesche Hanse, Hansa; Standard German: Deutsche Hanse; Latin: Hansa Teutonica) was a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Northwestern and Central Europe.

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Hindeloopen

Hindeloopen (Hylpen; Hindeloopen Frisian: Hielpen) is an old city on the North of the Netherlands on the IJsselmeer.

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History of Amsterdam

Amsterdam has a long and eventful history.

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History of the Netherlands

The history of the Netherlands is the history of seafaring people thriving on a lowland river delta on the North Sea in northwestern Europe.

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Hoorn

Hoorn is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.

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House

A house is a building that functions as a home.

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Kampen, Overijssel

Kampen is a city and municipality in the province of Overijssel, Netherlands.

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Leeuwarden

Leeuwarden (longname), Stadsfries: Liwwadden) is a city and municipality in Friesland in the Netherlands. It is the provincial capital and seat of the States of Friesland. The municipality has a population of 122,293. The region has been continuously inhabited since the 10th century. It came to be known as Leeuwarden in the early 9th century AD and was granted city privileges in 1435. It is the main economic hub of Friesland, situated in a green and water-rich environment. Leeuwarden is a former royal residence and has a historic city center, many historically relevant buildings, and a large shopping center with squares and restaurants. Leeuwarden was awarded the title European Capital of Culture for 2018. The Elfstedentocht (Eleven Cities Tour), an ice skating tour passing the eleven cities of Friesland, started and finished in Leeuwarden. The following towns and villages within the municipality have populations in excess of 1,000 people: Leeuwarden, Stiens, Grou, Goutum, Wergea, Jirnsum, Reduzum, and Wirdum. The municipality is governed by the mayor Ferd Crone and a coalition of the Labour Party, Christian Democratic Appeal, and GreenLeft.

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Leiden

Leiden (in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands.

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Maritime transport

Maritime transport is the transport of people (passengers) or goods (cargo) by water.

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Meppel

Meppel is a municipality and a city in the northeast of the Netherlands, in the south-west of the province Drenthe.

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Moat

A moat is a deep, broad ditch, either dry or filled with water, that is dug and surrounds a castle, fortification, building or town, historically to provide it with a preliminary line of defence.

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Municipal charter

A city charter or town charter (generically, municipal charter) is a legal document (charter) establishing a municipality such as a city or town.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Rural area

In general, a rural area or countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities.

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Sneek

Sneek (Snits) is a city southwest of Leeuwarden and seat of the former municipality of Sneek in the province of Friesland (Netherlands).

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Street

A street is a public thoroughfare (usually paved) in a built environment.

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Table Mountain

Table Mountain (Khoekhoe: Huri ‡oaxa, where the sea rises; Afrikaans: Tafelberg) is a flat-topped mountain forming a prominent landmark overlooking the city of Cape Town in South Africa.

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Tourism in the Netherlands

Tourism in the Netherlands is a relatively small sector of the country's economy with a total contribution of 5.4% to gross domestic product and 9.6% to employment.

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Translation

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.

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Utrecht

Utrecht is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the province of Utrecht.

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Venice

Venice (Venezia,; Venesia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.

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Weesp

Weesp is a city and municipality in the province of North Holland, Netherlands.

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William II of Holland

William II (February 1227 – 28 January 1256) was a Count of Holland and Zeeland from 1234 until his death.

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Zutphen

Zutphen is a city and municipality located in the province of Gelderland, Netherlands.

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Zwolle

Zwolle is a city and municipality in the northeastern Netherlands serving as Overijssel's capital.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracht

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