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ZIERIKSEE

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 980 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ZIERIKSEE  , a

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town in the province of Zeeland, Holland, on the south side of the island of Schouwen . Pop . 6800 . It is a very old town, and formerly flourished exceedingly on account of its trade and fishing, and important salt-making industry, and now is the chief market centre and
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port in the island . Among the
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principal buildings are the town-hall (15th century); the
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Great Church, which was rebuilt after a fire in 1832, but retains the lofty tower (1454) belonging to the earlier
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building; the Little Church, the prison and the
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exchange . The chief public square occupies the site of a residence of the
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counts of Zeeland dating from 1048 .

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