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Definition of Ijsselmeer

1. Noun. A shallow lake in northwestern Netherlands created in 1932 by building a dam across the entrance to the Zuider Zee.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ijsselmeer

Literary usage of Ijsselmeer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. W.M. Dudokby Herman van Bergeijk by Herman van Bergeijk (2001)
"He designed a white tower that provides a panorama over the dike out across the Wadden Sea to the north and the IJsselmeer (former Zuiderzee) to the south. ..."

2. Crimson Architectural Historians 1994-2002 by Stichting Rotterdam-Maaskant (2002)
"GRAND PROJET To make a genuine urbanistic project out of the current infrastructural projects - in much the same way as the IJsselmeer Dam or the Delta ..."

3. Time-based Architecture by Bernard Leupen, René Heijne, Jasper van Zwol (2005)
"In Hoorn, a small town on IJsselmeer 50 kilometres north of Amsterdam, we had to deal with this problem. For the municipality we designed a service building ..."

4. 4--Edzo Bindels, Ruurd Gietema, Henk Hartzema, Arjan Klok by Stichting Rotterdam-Maaskant (2000)
"Windmills stand in rows behind the coastal dykes and in parks of 10 to 25 km* where the land meets the IJsselmeer dam in the west and at Eemshaven in the ..."

5. Planet Geographyby Stephen Codrington by Stephen Codrington (2005)
"They do not necessarily have to be below sea level, although those around ijsselmeer are 3 to 5 metres below sea level and those created by draining lakes ..."

6. Crossover: Architecture, Urbanism, Technology by Ad Graafland, Leslie Jaye Kavanaugh, George Baird (2006)
"... appearance similar to generally accepted structures in the Dutch landscape, like the sluices of the Delta Works or the closure dike of the IJsselmeer. ..."

7. OECD Territorial Outlook by Oecd (2001)
"The least densely populated areas lie mainly along the ijsselmeer coast, to the north. Major demographic trends during the 1990s show that the provinces ..."

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