- Zaandijk
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caption = Zaandijk in the municipality of Zaanstad.Zaandijk (coord|52|28|N|4|48|E|type:city(9040)) is a town in the Dutch province of
North Holland . It is a part of the municipality ofZaanstad , and lies about 11 km northwest ofAmsterdam .Zaandijk has a population of around 9040.Statistics Netherlands (CBS), "Statline: Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2003-2005" [http://statline.cbs.nl/] . As of
January 1 ,2005 .]History
The first citizens of Zaandijk were members of the family of Hendrik Pietersz who moved into 'de Lage dijk' (The Lower Dike) in the year 1494. De Lagedijk still exists in Zaandijk. In
1570 the town consisted of 19 houses. These dwellings were burned by the Spaniards in 1572, during theEighty Years' War . The town began to prosper and grow following the return of the populace.Zaandijk was a separate municipality until 1974, when it became a part of the new municipality Zaanstad. [Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. [http://www.knaw.nl/cfdata/publicaties/detail.cfm?boeken__ordernr=20061061] ]
References
External links
* [http://www.kuijsten.de/atlas/nh/zaandijk.html Map of the former municipality in 1868]
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