Vlissingen

Vlissingen is a municipality and a metropolis inside the southwestern Netherlands on the former island of Walcheren. With its strategic region among the Scheldt river and the North Sea, Vlissingen has been an important harbour for hundreds of years. It changed into granted metropolis rights in 1315. In the 17th century Vlissingen changed right into a outstanding harbour for ships of the Dutch East India Company. It is also known as the birthplace of Admiral Michiel de Ruyter. Vlissingen is particularly stated for the yards on the Scheldt in which maximum of the ships of the Royal Netherlands Navy are built. The fishermen's hamlet that got here into lifestyles on the estuary of the Schelde spherical AD 620 has grown over its 1,400-12 months records into the zero.33-maximum crucial port of the Netherlands.

The Counts of Holland, Flanders, and Zeeland had the primary harbours dug. Over the centuries, Vlissingen advanced right into a hub for fishing, in particular the herring fishery, trade, privateering and the slave exchange. Under the Treaty of Nonsuch, English garrisons have been stationed right right here and at Brill to hold those ports out of Spanish hands. During the heyday of the Dutch Golden Age, ships from Vlissingen set sail for the severa outposts of the Dutch colonial empire and contributed to the world power of The Seven Provinces.