Five Brothers and a War

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Floods

Two floods changed the lake into the Zuiderzee in the 1280s. The first, in 1282 broke through the dunes around the Frisian island of Texel, flooding the lake with saltwater, and the second, far larger, flood was on December 14, 1287, named the Sint-Luciavloed (“St. Lucia Flood”) as it was the day after St. Lucia Day.