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Beemster

Beemster () is a former municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. The Beemster is the first polder in the Netherlands reclaimed from a lake, the water extracted by windmills between 1609 and 1612. The original well-ordered landscape of fields, roads, canals, and dykes has been preserved intact. A grid of canals parallels the grid of roads in the Beemster. The larger feeder canals are offset by approximately one kilometer from the larger roads.

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Beemster is a former municipality in the Netherlands that was created as the country's first polder—a reclaimed area of land—drained from a lake using windmills between 1609 and 1612. It matters because its original geometric landscape of fields, roads, canals, and dykes has been remarkably well preserved, making it historically significant as an example of early Dutch water management and land reclamation engineering.

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Settlement.name: Beemster
Settlement.settlement_type: Former municipality
Settlement.image_skyline: Midden beemster.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Middenbeemster town centre
Settlement.image_flag: Beemster flag.svg
Settlement.flag_size: 100x67px
Settlement.image_shield: Beemster wapen.svg
Settlement.shield_size: 100x80px
Settlement.image_map: Map - NL - Municipality code 0370 (2009).svg
Settlement.map_alt: Highlighted position of Beemster in a municipal map of North Holland
Settlement.map_caption: Location of the former municipality of Beemster in North Holland
Settlement.subdivision_type