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Veere is a municipality with a populace of twenty-two,000 and a metropolis with a population of 1,500 in the southwestern Netherlands, in the area of Walcheren inside the province of Zeeland. The name Veere method "ferry": Wolfert Van Borssele mounted a ferry and ferry residence there in 1281. This ferry he referred to as the "camper-veer" or "Ferry of Campu" and it quickly became known as "de Veer". In the identical yr 1281 Wolfert additionally built the castle Sandenburg on one of the dikes he had built. On 12 November 1282, Count Floris V. Thereupon issued a constitution by way of which Wolfert obtained the sovereignty to the land and fortress with the ferry and ferry residence.

From that time on Wolfert became given the identify of Lord Van der Veer. Veere obtained town rights in 1355. The "Admiraliteit van Veere"changed into set up because of the Ordinance on the Admiralty of eight January 1488 in an try to create a valuable naval administration in the Burgundian Netherlands. To this became subordinated the Vice-Admiralty of Flanders in Dunkirk. In 1560 underneath admiral Philip de Montmorency, Count of Hoorn, this admiralty relocated close to Ghent and in 1561 the Habsburg naval forces were also moved to Veere.

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