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Urk is a municipality and a city within the Flevoland province in the central Netherlands. Urk is first noted in historical facts dating to the 10th century, whilst it turned into nevertheless an island within the Almere, a lake that might grow to be part of the Zuiderzee in the 13th century after a series of incursions through the North Sea. In 1939, a dike from the mainland to Urk ended the town's island fame, just because the Afsluitdijk venture was changing the salt water Zuiderzee surrounding Urk to the much less saline IJsselmeer.

Later within the twentieth century, seabed regions surrounding Urk have been reclaimed from the sea and have become the Noordoostpolder. The oldest example of the name Urk is a donation certificate of 966 from Holy Roman Emperor Otto I to the Sint Pantaleonsklooster monastery in Cologne. The textual content reads: cuiisdam insulae medietatem in Almere, que Urch vocatur. Until 1475 the High and Low Lordship of Urk and Emmeloord the most northern village of Schokland changed into within the hands of the Van Kuinre own family. From 1475 to 1614, the Zoudenbalch own family of Utrecht had been Lords of Urk and Emmeloord.

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