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Lelystad is a district and a city in the focal point of the Netherlands, and it is the capital of the region of Flevoland. The city, in view of recouped arrive, was built up in 1967 and was named after Cornelis Lely, who planned the Afsluitdijk, making the recuperation possible. Lelystad is about 3 meters 9.8 feet underneath sea level. Lelystad depends on the seabed of the past Zuiderzee. Around 6500 years earlier this wetland was above high tide level and had; the Netherlands have determinedly faded away since. Close Lelystad at Swifterbant, the most prepared human skeletons in Western Europe were found.

On account of rising water levels and whirlwinds, the peatlands were washed away, and the Lacus Flevo in Roman conditions created to be the Almere Middle Ages and transformed into the Zuiderzee. The Zuiderzee Southern Sea was the guideline transport course from Amsterdam toward the North Sea and the Hanseatic League urban regions. Due to the ious wrecks in Flevoland, Lelystad by and by houses the National Center for Maritime History, with a chronicled focus and the shipyard that has built the Batavia duplicate. After the Second World War the Zuiderzee Works continued, fabricating the polder of Eastern Flevoland. In 1950 work began on a couple of improvement islands in the midst of the IJsselmeer.

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