Braakman
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The Braakman was a large tidal inlet in the middle of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, on the south bank of the Westerschelde west of Terneuzen. Over the centuries it steadily spread, drowning at least 15 villages between 1200 and 1601: see list of settlements lost to floods in the Netherlands#Drowned villages in the Braakman Then, people fought back. Successive empolderings shrank the Braakman to a remnant, which was finally diked off from the sea some time after 1960. The remaining water is used for recreation, and part of its seaward end was made into the Braakmanhaven harbour.
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