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14th December 1287: St Lucia’s Flood kills over 50,000 people around the North Sea

14th December 2021
Tagged as: Amsterdam, Flood, Medieval, Natural Disaster, Netherlands, North Sea, Storm

In the medieval period the Netherlands, whose name literally means ‘lower countries’, consisted of large areas of boggy land around the winding estuaries of three of the largest rivers in Europe.

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14th December 1287: St Lucia’s Flood kills over 50,000 people around the North Sea

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