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etc. refer to the fact that the village was built on an artificial dwelling mound (
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up to 15 metres (49 ft) high to be safe from the floods in periods of
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somewhere around 1200. During the 18th and 19th centuries, many
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was deserted, and settlers returned only around AD 400. A third
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from the East, showing the
Kirchwarft and the Knudswarft (
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terp during a storm tide"; a dramatic 1906 illustration
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Frisian coastal region ending in
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that has been created to provide safe ground during
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298:Old Frisian
235:Meuse river
191:Netherlands
894:Categories
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763:Literature
650:Middelstum
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180:high tides
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591:Wijnaldum
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370:sea level
325:, modern
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515:Boalsert
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473:Rasquert
469:toponyms
411:(plural
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251:Leffinge
227:Halligen
184:flooding
752:Crannog
704:Loquard
685:Usquert
665:Saaksum
655:Niehove
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521:Britsum
465:Ureterp
451:, from
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354:Frisian
306:English
302:cognate
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670:Spijk
645:Leens
610:Bedum
605:Adorp
461:-terp
457:-hiem
453:-heem
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429:-werd
390:terps
334:Dutch
330:doarp
309:thorp
304:with
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163:værft
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337:dorp
332:and
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