Monnickendam
Sign in to saveMonnickendam () is a city in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Waterland, and lies on the coast of the Markermeer, about southeast of Purmerend. It received city rights in 1355 and was damaged by the fires of 1499 and 1513.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Monnickendam
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Monnickendam, Haven - panoramio.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Monnickendam in 2010
- Settlement.image_shield
- Monnickendam wapen.svg
- Settlement.image_flag
- Monnickendam vlag.png
- Settlement.image_map
- LocatieWaterland.png
- Settlement.image_map1
- Map NL - Waterland - Monnickendam.png
- Settlement.map_caption1
- The town centre (dark green) and the statistical district (light green) of Monnickendam in the municipality of Waterland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Netherlands
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- North Holland
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Waterland
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_footnotes
- (2012)
- Settlement.area_total_ha
- 1536
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of the Netherlands
- Country
- Netherlands
- Located in
- North Holland
- Population
- 9440
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Body of water
- Gouwzee
- Image
- 1208 Monnickendam 122.JPG
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- Commons category
- Monnickendam
- postal code
- 1140–1141
- WordLift URL
- data.wordlift.io/wl01254/entity/monnickendam
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
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Monnickendam () is a city in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Waterland, and lies on the coast of the Markermeer, about southeast of Purmerend. It received city rights in 1355 and was damaged by the fires of 1499 and 1513.
==History== left|thumb|upright=1.1|Joan Blaeu's map of Monnickendam, developed in 1649 Monnikendam was also the name of a number of warships built at the port of the same name during the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Monnickendam” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (2)
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3 mapped locations