How The Dutch Dug Up Their Country From The Sea

The Dutch have a saying: “God created the world, but the Dutch created the Netherlands”. Today we will see why.
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[@VersVlees]

As someone who grew up in Almere. I have my childhood memories of digging in our garden and finding small sea shells every where.

[@Tyler732594]

VersVlees that actually sounds really cool! You can just find sea shells right in your backyard.

[@VersVlees]

@@Tyler732594 Well a downside of living on any polder or former lake/sea floor anything not a foundation tends to sink. (Severity depends on the age/location of the neighborhood in almere) Every few years you need to bring in sand to level up your garden/driveway. btw I can still find the sea shells but I now have to dig a at least through a meter of sand lol.

[@KFC.e46]

Guess we're neighbours, buddy😂😂😂

[@aarongloskowski6087]

I’m not really

[@thesunday2023]

@@VersVlees Sounds like future Mexico City lol

[@daanm3869]

Im Dutch, and what you are seeing here, is our coverup. Our actual country is only accesible if you have 12 obsidian blocks, and flint and steel. With this, you can create a portal to our *real* country.

[@donotcare57656]

Does the real country still have Polders?

[@JackTheGamingGuy4REALZ]

@@donotcare57656 r/woosh

[@mikeapplin7889]

You can also use a fire charge :p

[@bramdingemanse6345]

You only need 10 obsidian, you dont need to fill the corners

[@dallashorst9240]

@@bramdingemanse6345 10*

[@Fede_uyz]

Imagine that after years of hard work, you finally retire and buy a home for yourself by the sea..... And then the government to simply come and make it so your lovely seaside beach house is now 20 miles from the sea... i'd be mad

[@unematrix]

Luckily back in the day, people didn't retire :D So that problem didn't exist

[@devonseamoor]

I'm sure, when you've got your eyes open, that you're informed in advance, about your loss of a pretty view, Frederico. So that you're given a chance to move and find another lovely seaside beach house. Don't be dramatic.

[@moladiver6817]

@@devonseamoor Ever heard of humor? :p

[@walterkersting1362]

No joke; in the USA local governments use eminent domain to take your land and in some cases do nothing with it.

[@dZaq]

​@@moladiver6817 I'm in the US. We can't afford humor like that. Some kid on the beach building a dam in front of their sand castle would turn into some Fox News headline: "Flood Prevention Barriers: Is Water Really That Bad?" By the end of the week, it will develop into: "Liberals Confiscating Beach Houses, Despite Science Disproving Climate Change" A year later, after a "random" Cat. 5 hurricane: "Obama Allows Thousands Of Homes To Flood, Despite Warnings".​

[@lordwinanim]

For somebody who grew up in Central Amsterdam, this makes so many of the names in NL make sense such as AmsterDAM, RotterDAM, VenserPOLDER, SloterDIJK etc. I really never knew

[@Leon_Schuit]

If I recall correctly, the original name of Amsterdam was Amstelerdam, meaning dam in/of the Amstel, which is a river running through the city.

[@permanentlybored195]

sorry hoor maar paleis op de dam maakte het niet duidelijk voor je?

[@MrAdriancooke]

When I was a kid I reasoned that "Amsterdam" must be a dam that had been built by a giant hamster 😂

[@bigsmiler5101]

You forgot to say WHY the Reeds were Burned. Very important. The ground was far too salty to grow crops. They chose plants that grew well in Salty soil AND would take up the salt into its cells. By burning it, they let the salt get carried away in the wind.

[@joops110]

My grandfather helped create one of the polders, where he settled as a farmer after its completion. I was born there myself and I can say it's very unnatural looking land, extremely flat and divided into perfect road and farm grids. About 15 years ago we had very heavy rainfall and the pumps couldn't keep up. Our village was covered in half a meter of water. Strange idea that we live 4 meters below sea level, sometimes I wonder if I should feel as safe as I do.

[@piercedfreak27]

Yeah heavy rainfall, rising sea level. Sounds like a recipe for disaster. I wish you all the luck and good fortune in the world.

[@borresron]

Why should you? Your country have solved a problem and massively reclaimed lands that other countries can only dream of doing

[@joops110]

@@borresron Imagine a hurricane, earthquake, tsunami, or other natural disaster hitting an area 4m below sea level. The only thing that seperates our homes from a massive wall of water is a pile of rock and soil. I agree it's impressive engineering. But I also think it's important to be aware of the situation I'm in.

[@hadhamalnam]

@@joops110 Fortunately, it is pretty much impossible for a hurricane or a serious earthquake/tsunami to hit the Netherlands due to its location.

[@joops110]

@@hadhamalnam Yes you're right, the chance is small. But it will happen eventually, it's just a matter of when.

[@NathamelCamel]

Netherlands to Belgium: "Gib clay" Belgium: "No" Netherlands to Germany: "Gib clay" Germany: "No goes away" Netherlands to the sea: "Gib clay" Sea: "..." Netherlands: "AM NOT HEAR A NO"

[@drunkenmasterii3250]

It's like reading a Polandball comic without the pictures.

[@drunkenmasterii3250]

Wouter van Engelenburg lol I’ve never seen it. Now after searching for it I can say it’s just as good as I hoped it would be.

[@Reddsoldier]

Fine, we'll make our own land... With blackjack and hookers.

[@davidbukowski3463]

Wow you just completely ripped that from Polandball.

[@adobe825]

I get it now

[@MrSonyChaos]

Can't conquer land ? Easy, just create land.

[@exitspree]

The Netherlands was conquered from the Spanish (which gained it it's independence) and you should also look into the colonies conquered by the VOC all around the world. In fact, the Dutch even conquered England and put a Dutch king on the throne at one point.

[@AwoudeX]

@@exitspree Yes! It is called the glorious revolution. The Dutch king restored order after a long time of turmoil. Without this event, it would have taken the English alot longer to become the naval hegemon and build their world encompassing empire....

[@alejandrayalanbowman367]

@@exitspree They didn't "conquer" England. William of Orange just became king.

[@exitspree]

@@alejandrayalanbowman367 Wrong! Quote from Wikipedia: "The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England (James VII of Scotland) by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III, Prince of Orange, who was James's nephew and son-in-law. William's successful invasion of England with a Dutch fleet and army led to his ascension to the throne as William III of England jointly with his wife, Mary II, James's daughter, after the Declaration of Right, leading to the Bill of Rights 1689." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution

[@nolategame6367]

Jan-Willem It was really just William of Orange was an heir to the throne and HE was very popular whilst the King was not. So they basically just invited him over and became king. Not much fighting happened

[@juditkovacs1205]

This is so fascinating to me. The fact that parts of the country have not existed in the lifetime of my parents, is fascinating. Cool video.

[@awkhan27]

Great

[@retardo2384]

This video in a nutshell; Water: I’m here Dutch: No Water: ok **water left the chat** Lmao how did this get 60 likes

[@Mr0Anonymous0]

@Desi Raand does the telegraaf keep telling you that?

[@MrToontuber]

@M G mmmm.. Naa!!!

[@louwes44]

@M G The Netherlands: "Hippity hoppety, water get off my property."

[@sam9081]

Lmao how did this get 719 likes

[@johnzuijdveld9585]

@ 755 likes but it should be about 25mill? not sure of Dutch pop. but it's all about Dutch perseverance, patience, ingenuity, imagination and capabilities. Hence this video! 😘😉

[@groblerful]

To turn a swamp into the second biggest food exporting country in the world by using wind & hard work is an amazing achievment. Dutch can be proud world leaders.

[@sam9081]

Thx

[@kakalimukherjee3297]

@TheWeeaboo I'm an Indian and the last sentence is so bloody true

[@Bolognabeef]

@TheWeeaboo Rhodesians weren't boers/Afrikaner tho, they were anglos

[@johnsmith2797]

You Somalian overlords apriciate your hard work.

[@Directlite664]

They do not produce the food they export. They are actually re-exporters. Meaning they import food from other countries and export it to their neighbors. This made them the 4th largest importer in the world with a significantly small population. Even their main exports are eggs, meat and beverages. Meaning, not a land oriented produce.

[@smallmj2886]

Nice video. My wife spent most of her childhood living in Flevoland (Biddinghuizen). One of her cousins was shocked when I told him that there was no English word for Polder.

[@srinip]

@Junjun Hmmm...I dunno, I love his accent!

[@gustavthemagician]

The english word for polder is polder, you better tell him you were joking before he googles it.

[@alexveldhuis6004]

Strange really, because England does have a polder of its own, called The Fens. What you end up with is marsh land, low laying flat and prone to high water table and periodic flooding. The Fens were reclaimed by Dutch engineers and labour, many of whom settled as growers on that land.

[@andrevanderklift8420]

@@kapiteinbadmuts5043 And don't forget gezellig

[@jaymeehoffstar2621]

@Jim Bovens Apartheid, Apart = being separate. Dutch and English has many similarities.

[@henkvandenbergh1301]

I never understood the reason for het Veluwemeer. Thank you! This old Dutchman now living in Colorado still remembers riding his motorcycle on the dikes of Zuid Flevoland in the seventies. With all this draining and drying land, just imagine the amount of mosquitos I ran into! My sister insisted on using the garden hose to clean me off before I was allowed to enter her home. Thanks for the memories! 😊

[@TheAutobotPower]

So, Dutch can create land from the sea but Spanish can't deal with a lake without creating caos and misery?

[@unematrix]

What happened? What it's about?

[@TheAutobotPower]

@@unematrix The now extinct texcoco lake.

[@unematrix]

@@TheAutobotPower ahhh, I forgot about that.

[@MM-vs2et]

Are talking about Tenochtitlan?

[@logoncal3001]

I mean, they couldnt hold the Dutch themselves

[@Azivegu]

I have to say that this is probably the best video explaining the creation of the Zuiderzee- and IJsselmeerpolders I have come across. One thing you left out (or may have been unaware of), not to diminish what you have made, is that each polder reflects the time in which it was created. The Wieringerpolder has villages that are within walking distance (they used to walk more and longer then we do now), while the Noordoostpolder has towns within biking distance, as biking became ever more popular. Now they where further separated. With the creation of the Flevopolder cars had become immensely popular, and so no the cities and towns were even further separated as they only needed to be within driving distance. Also, Almere gets its name from the former name of the salty lake that once existed there after the Flevomeer changed due to erosion from storm activity. Still, a very good description of the process (especially with the planting of, for example, rape seeds to steady the land) that made this whole process possible.

[@srinip]

I agree!

[@chicks-on-the-loose]

Also when you drive through all three from north to south you can tell the different ages by the building styles of the farm houses and the diversity in the forrests.

[@raccoon6072]

Small correction: Flevomeer and Almeer where still sweet water. Only after the 11th century it became salty and renamed into Zuiderzee.

[@MabelAmber]

Indeed, I agree, great video, very clear and to the point.

[@Nilvolentibusje]

2:47 ''..were *BURNED*..'' dramatic music starts.

[@lilpapalstate628]

and then replaced with RAPE seeds *music plays louder*

[@jakebeaudry3888]

@@lilpapalstate628 AKA Canola (Stands for Canada oil) seeds.

[@trollmcclure1884]

did he say weed seeds? If so this land was indeed made using the Cannabis plant

[@lrg3834]

China to Netherlands: how much to fix the Three Gorges Dam? Netherlands to China: throw in Hong Kong, and we'll think about it.

[@jianyang6281]

why do we need to fix the dam?

[@samuelmcneill2816]

@@jianyang6281 it is at major risk of bursting putting tens of millions at risk

[@johnzuijdveld9585]

@@jianyang6281 Samuel McNeill 1 month ago @jian yang it is at major risk of bursting putting tens of millions at risk But of cause! you don't know this because your govt. hides every mistake so you ppl. don't realize how inept they are! They didn't even discover that baby formulas made in China had melamine powder in it. It took the Australians to discover that for you! So how are your communist regulators in your country looking after the ppl. Btw I bought a China made washing machine a yr. ago and already it is faulty! . . .keeps giving me error 5 messages which according to the manual means the machine is not level, but it IS level ! what a piece of CRAP! and ONLY 1yr. old!

[@randomrandom316]

@@johnzuijdveld9585 Can you please share some source regarding the dam? I would like to learn more about this, whatever sources I have read do not offer any concrete inference on their own just that someone said something about that dam. I would be much obliged if you could share a source that talks about some metric on which it has been established to be under duress. At one point I read that it was only ten metres from over flowing, but if the dam does not give even when it overflows, doesn't it mean that it will potentially never break? Though of course downstream damage could still be very extreme.

[@johnzuijdveld9585]

@@randomrandom316 I'll tackle this again . . . NEVER say never! many dams have lasted for a very long time and 10mtrs is about 35 feet +or - sounds fairly reassuring to me! BUT! ALL dams built around the 1980's did not account for any thing called 'Global Warming' A few years ago there was catastrophic floods in Queensland Australia, there were unprecedented rains and the authorities feared that the dam may collapse so they let billions of gigalitres of water flood the plains to ensure that the dam would not fail which would have been much worse. But as a result there were millions if not billions of $ damage, a failure of long term panning or just plain ignorance? All Govts. are having or going to have these problems soon, will they adjust as necessary or simply deny any problems? The 5 Gorges Dam system has been identified around the world as a serious threat to life, (it's not the only one worldwide, there are others elsewhere) but the CCP. refuses to acknowledge international good will and offers of help, saying this is ALL Western propaganda trying to destabilize it's control!

[@kaptenhiu5623]

When the Dutch colonized Indonesia they introduced the art of hydroengineering and built many canals, bridges and dams throughout Java island. Many of which are still in use today even after hundreds of years.

[@MoreParksLessParking]

At the end of the day, Jakarta is just a much larger, much more tropical version of amsterdam. (Or was)

[@maartenj.vermeulen900]

Tapi lihat Jakarta sekarang! Banyak kanal di tutup dari orang Indonesia kapan merdeka dari Belanda. Hasil: banjir terus sekarang. Dan Belanda harus bantu Jakarta lagi. Pak Anies yg bodoh bebar.

[@Stoney_Eagle]

Fun fact about Flevoland. Flevoland was ment as a temporary solution to accommodate the increasing population and should not be in existence today. Born in Amsterdam, Raised in Lelystad and currently living in Almere, I'm glad they kept it.

[@VolpeWhereAreYou]

wow I just visited Marken before watching this...things would have made a lot more sense

[@marianschillhorn2109]

My father Dr Ir Johan van Veen develloped the Deltaplans even before the war. He handed in his latest plans onle 2 days before the flood of 1953. He also had plans ready for de Maasvlakte in the North Sea as an extenson for Rotterdam port for container ships. Also plans for the Eemshaven port in the North. Vloedkommen, the capacity to contain flood water from the main rivers. Abroad he was called Master of the Floods.

[@shmickpingo1]

i kept hearing Flevoland as "flavour land", like a dutch Guy Fieri

[@elisaholstein438]

I did too

[@jamesgoode249]

Freaking fantastic video. I will be showing this to my 9th graders this week.

[@MightyWinz]

Hey mr G what’s up map

[@proconqueror]

Sea: exists Dutch: DAM IT!

[@tankiwolf]

lol good one, im dutch btw

[@proconqueror]

Tnx

[@chumloaf]

Proof the Netherlands supports Team Magma

[@litchtheshinigami8936]

plox fam the bacteriophage 😂😂😂

[@pvzfan4208]

plox fam the bacteriophage Groudon is probably my favorite Pokemon.

[@Biele98]

@jaca van heesch May Kyogre's floods cleanse your bitter soul!

[@IwanRst]

Wow. Fascinating explanation. I was tought that they just built a single super big dams, drained it and voila! Turns out it not that simple. :) I admit it, that Dutch is famous for hydro engineering in the world. I always excited about Dutch's made. Its so durable and advanced, considered by time it build. Some Dutch's made still exists in my country, Indonesia, not only canals and dams, but also building. Their occupy last 300+ years here. :) Many our early engineers is graduated from Netherland, too.

[@desu38]

Here in the Netherland, Indonesian cuisine is still hugely popular to this day.

[@corbeau-_-]

Good thing we left something to be proud of... Our nation did some shitty things to your country, trying to control your populace, while taking your land, burning down resistant villages, executing hordes of people...

[@corbeau-_-]

@@desu38 yass! Excellent spicy food. I make rendang quite often and combine serundeng on dishes with rice. Gado Gado, Nasi goreng (though that has spread quite far, everywhere).

[@maartenj.vermeulen900]

Indonesia dapat yg banyak bagus dari Belanda, tidak hanya masalah. Semua teknik dari Belanda, kereta api, edukasi, sekolah, universitas, RS, infrastruktur semua di bangun. Tapi knp skg banyak banjir di Jakarta? Krn waktu merdeka orang Indonesia tutup "kanal" bangun dr Belanda. Tdk begitu pintar kan? Skg Belanda mau bantu krn Jakarta benar di dalam bahaya, tidak hanya dari musim hujan tapi juga dari Laut Jawa.

[@johnzuijdveld9585]

@@corbeau-_- All the colonialists treated their subjugated quite poorly by todays standards, but todays standards are MUCH higher than in those days. My father used to tell us that in the Dutch East Indies we treated the natives much better than most colonial powers, sending some back to Holland so that they could be trained to eventually take over the running of their country as the Dutch saw in advance that the colonial days were coming to an end. They intended for the Indonesians to be independent but a willing member of the Dutch Commonwealth, as their West Indies Antillean have become. Unfortunately the 2nd. WW. got in the way and afterwards the English and USA. forced the Dutch to relinquish control to the rebels there even tho' the Dutch warned that Indonesia was not ready for self rule, and as a result went into 20-25yrs? of internal struggle. The English did this because they were jealous of the Dutch control of the spice trade!

[@Phyzzius]

Although I'm Dutch, I have never heard that expression. I like it though XD Also, great Dutch accent :P

[@Grav648]

Het is ook een engelse uitdruking.. tenminste als je die bedoelt van god created the world but the dutch the netherlands..

[@stephanberger3476]

Hij kan wel een logopedist gebruiken.

[@HistoryScope]

:'(

[@maartenj.vermeulen900]

It was originally a French saying by Descartes. Know your history. That was translated to English and most Dutch gave heard thus saying in Dutch too.

[@maartenj.vermeulen900]

@@Grav648 Het was een oorspronkelijk een uitspraak in het Frans van de filosoof Descartes die zich in de Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Provinciën gevestigd had.

[@Tezcax]

The dutch are not the second largest exporters of food, they're the second largest exporter of agricultural products by value. It's not just semantics, they make money by exporting high priced flowers and spices. Their flowers are valuable due to geography, tradition and a virus that give them nice colors. Flowers are not food. Actual exporters of food like soybeans, rice, sugar, wheat and oils are the US, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia and Argentina.

[@HistoryScope]

Yep. Fair point. I did not think of that, it should have been 'agricultural products' :(

[@cvb6089]

🤔 Hmmm a large part of their agricultural products are seeds this expertise started in the 17 th century and this expertise is unmachted. It's so important for the worlds food production that they feared that the Corona crises endangered food production worldwide because seeds could not be exported in time for sowing crobs...

[@xeroxsos3659]

Yeah that surprised me too, I was thinking there was no way Netherlands export more food than the countries you listed haha

[@Tezcax]

@@HistoryScope Btw, I'm not trying to dismiss the achievements of the Netherlands. It's all incredible and I love the Dutch.

[@dimrrider9133]

Im Dutch and i build greenhouses all around the world because we are the only one who can build them and you will be surprised what you can create in a greenhouse. Our knoweledge of making food with less water, LED light ect. goes around the world now and its created at the university of Wageningen. I think we must be the nr. 1 haha no im kidding ;p

[@stansearcheslife6363]

I live in Teteringen a village that existed since the middle ages and maybe even longer the thing is this village used to be a costal village and now its surrounded by land. Its simply amazing what the dutch did

[@dimrrider9133]

Das bij mij in de buurt (Breda)

[@stansearcheslife6363]

@@dimrrider9133 ah toevallig

[@rabinmaharjanawesome]

I am a Nepali. The Land Mafia in my country is also replicating this strategy only to do wrose for the environment, culture and the community. The Holy rivers that irrigated lands are now turned to tame drainages... no fish, no life.. Ponds and lakes are not recharged and dried so that they can be sold and Malls and shopping centers are constructed. you can See one at Thamel (Tourist hub in Nepal).

[@jordyn3563]

Thank you very much for this video, I'm an Australian with Dutch heritage with the last name of Polderman. I had very little knowledge of the meaning before this video.

[@johnzuijdveld9585]

Hi I'm a Dutchman in S. Au. there's a lot to be gleaned from surnames all over the world. My name means South field, hence that is where my forefathers came from, yours came from some polder region, a name like Van Dyke or Van der Zee tells you where he/she is from when you know that Van means from, as does Von in German, Du in French and De in Spanish and Portuguese I think do the same thing. In English Smith or Black most likely means your ancestral name comes from the trade of blacksmithing, Brown or Bruin of someone involved in leatherworks, Green most likely greengrocers, Cob or Cobbs to do with being a cobbler (bootmaker) ... now joking Jack from a jackass and Jackson being the son of aforementioned jackass! 😊

[@benyedder3726]

And i, i am dutch, and as a dutchman i can tell, you need a nether portal to come here

[@luxembourger]

Damned, I am living in the Netherlands now for 6 years already and nobody here told me anything about this, thank you for your beautiful channel and greetings from Maastricht.

[@greutera]

I have dutch ancestry - Lokker from Mellisant on my fathers side of the family (his mother and here family). I've had the pleasure of visiting the Netherlands a few times. I find the land reclamation projects quite fascinating.

[@bjuny6481]

Ik ben een Belg en ik wist dit niet, ik wil je danken voor het maken van deze mooie en makkelijk verstaanbare video

[@the_court_jester666]

Jan van speijk heeft niks verkeerd gedaan

[@petronellajames8656]

Hallo Belg! Hartelijk dank voor je heerlijk bier, ook verkrijgbaar hier in het verre New Zealand.

[@stenkristel1919]

Thank you for feeding our ego

[@ElectrologyNow]

Excellent video. In the 1980s I did a conference at the large Conference Center on Flavoland. An amazing place with saunas, gyms and a gigantic (wave-producing) pool. I'd love to see a video on that Center. (It was odd driving through fields of "mud" and then seeing that conference center.)

[@tjs200]

Wow - so much respect for the Dutch. Just amazing.

[@theramendutchman]

Hé, dankjewel!

[@benyedder3726]

Thanks

[@takase5037]

This thing legit reminds me of Minecraft where I drain water from ocean with sponges and stuff

[@J05BNL]

Funny thing, in the city Almere a lake has been created. The name of this lake is called 'weerwater' which means 'water again'

[@lokombiano2007]

Thanks for making this video, I have been to the Netherlands and it helped me to understand something that my cousin (he's Dutch) told me about pumping the water to reclaim water from the sea. Your channel is amazing, bedankt

[@lokombiano2007]

Reclaim land*

[@lokombiano2007]

Lucas Nederlandse Patriot ????

[@gringgo1359]

The Dutch is a master at Engineering and Agriculture.

[@teghem6723]

Polderisation originated in 12th century Flanders (Ter Doest abbey in Lissewege)The monks polderised first the region, then "het land van Saeftinghe". They installed abbeys in Zeeland, Holland and Friesland and brought their polderisation techniques.

[@modisemakokwe4256]

Hi Im South Africa I speak Afrikaans a form of Dutch language this is very informative about Holland

[@Ok-oj5vu]

*the Netherlands

[@Inc1neRyu]

I like how when showing the fly-over photo's of Almere, the first 1 is about 500 meters from where I live.

[@chrisr3480]

I'm from the USA and your videos make me want to visit the Netherlands...great videos!!!!

[@HistoryScope]

Nice, but please wait until after the travelban :D

[@chrisr3480]

@@HistoryScope lol...ok

[@logoncal3001]

the dutch asked the sea to gib clay *the sea didnt respond*

[@lithiumvids9448]

Logoncal can Estonia join nordics?

[@lazarus2691]

I am not hear a "no"

[@SofaKingShit]

+Desi Raand Didn't see any Moroccans and Turks destroying the place when l was there. Seemed quite a Dutch country really, with tolerance being a part of their culture.

[@Twiggy163]

@@lazarus2691 1953 worst year of life!

[@Texan.Insomniac]

The Dutch's war on the sea

[@opimentoso]

Incredible engeneering. Thanks for making this video, the artwork is great too. +1 sub!

[@fikrinoh1135]

Dutch people are very genius in hydro engineering. They even had built lots of aquaduct in Netherlands.

[@slavicindo5763]

''God created the world, but the dutch created the netherlands'' The greeks: God threw some rocks, and that's greece Us, bulgarians: When god was handing out land the bulgarians were late, so he gave them a bit of heaven. Damn god is harsh on the others

[@bigsmiler5101]

Please make a video on the OLD dikes, those built in the 1200s & 1300s. THEY were the genius people, centuries ahead of their time. I've personally studied & visited the old windmill tech, and statues and movies need to made about those unknown people!!!

[@aletoledo1]

Great animations

[@anthonyappleyard5688]

1:52 This is at Andijk. I have had 2 holidays motorcycling around the Netherlands. I stayed at Emmeloord in the Noordoostpolder.

[@Kodeb8]

The Netherlands looks like those flat worlds from city builders or virtual farm games.

[@omarma7815]

I have a feeling this video along with your channel are going to blow up

[@schwarzerritter5724]

There actually is a board game about the land reclamation. It is called Seeland.

[@m1legend496]

Wow the presentation per se looks a lot like Minecraft!!!😍👏💯 and so my Survival World named Aelia Kapitoloniki (a Jewish Greco-Roman Empire) was reconstructed again from being a Sand-Sea kingdom to become a dutch kingdom, I built a lot of windmills, reclaimed seas, built dutch houses! I'm a Filipino but I'm amazed how the Dutch managed to drain the seas and turned it to become a valuable asset!😍🇵🇭♥️🇳🇱💯

[@thefirstkingdogo1126]

Thanks, if you want it to be realy like the Netherlands just build farms everywhere.

[@josenildoferreiraassuncao8963]

The best video I have ever watched about this theme. Thank you very much !

[@k3kboi665]

God damm how comfy would a place like lelystad be to live.

[@meilorbondoc4623]

"...and as a finishing touch, God created the dutch." Great video!

[@nirvanic3610]

؟

[@fullflowstagecombustioncyc4471]

"God created the world, but the Dutch created The Netherlands" damn boy you caught me off guard

[@maverikmiller6746]

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

[@twitertaker]

Every year I am going to the Netherlands to visit Defqon.1. Knowing the land it happens on (near Biddinghuizen) didn't exist 70/60 years before makes it even better.

[@zapfanzapfan]

I really like driving along the multicolored fields in the spring.

[@JustA.Person]

I had no idea about any of this and it's so fascinating to think that they just created land out of water. Excellent video!

[@edenli6421]

I already knew everything yet this intrigued me. Well done!

[@edenli6421]

The incorrect measurements irritates me but I can tell by the pinned thread that you are one of the only youtubers that listen to their viewers!

[@HistoryScope]

It annoys me too... This is something so small yet so silly to get wrong :(

[@maartenj.vermeulen900]

@@HistoryScope But you made larger errors in this video than just the numbers. Mixing up polders flooding by the Germans for example.

[@wouterfaes2309]

Im Belgian , i do like the Dutch ! And boy , they are the waterbenders of this world! They are heroes! I live like 2km from the Dutch border , if in what crazy wicked way i hear a Tsunami is coming .. imma take my care , drive 2km and i will be in the Netherlands and i will KNOW they KNOW how to deal with that shit . Thank you Dutchies

[@dimrrider9133]

Hahaha you can visit my city because i live 2 km from the Belgium border in Breda ;p

[@diogo082]

I knew that dutches were very developed but not at this point. To fix that problem and solve another, that is the lack of territorial land, is an amazing accomplishment. Their history back to hundreds of years ago. It's amazing a very small country, both territorial and populational, be that great in terms of industry and technology.

[@user-lb6rd2pp9e]

this video finally made me understand why noquitters made it possible to build polders in the sea as the dutch (civ 5 mod)

[@aaronsirkman8375]

And then in Civ 6, Polders are only placeable on Coast or Lake, and still count as water, so they're traversable by ships. And of course, they're covered in Tulips.

[@PlastiPL]

This year i worked on that big polder between Lelystad and Almere. Quite nice place to live :D

[@fuzzyduck1199]

A nice addition to the Noordoostpolder is that geographers used the central place theory of Christaller to plan the settlements in this region.

[@paxwallacejazz]

It is fascinating that the Netherlands apearantly has the highest most efficient agricultural yields of any country.

[@WeSeGe]

Meanwhile in Romania, politicians are trying to build the first Highway after the communism era, they are currently on a 30 year long investigation on how they should start the project.

[@w0ttheh3ll]

didn't Romania finish building a highway a couple of years ago, that was partially destroyed in a landslide soon after?

[@imforallz1593]

The Dutch government should strongly consider making Age of Empires 2019 version.

[@scipioprime69]

Venice must consult Dutch engineers about their flooding problem.

[@thijs275]

G E K O L O N I S E E R D

[@aliaguerin1266]

Wat is gekoloniseerd? de polders?

[@thijs275]

@@aliaguerin1266 dat hoor je te zeggen als iemand iets over nederland zegr

[@aliaguerin1266]

@@thijs275 waarom?

[@gustavthemagician]

@@thijs275 Ik ben heel goed in staat om zelf te bepalen wat ik zeg, dat maak jij niet uit. Bovendien gaat dit over polders, dus je gebral slaat nergens op. Als je wil laten zien dat je deugt en alle blanken slecht zijn, want dat bedoelt jouw soort eigenlijk, dan is dat mislukt. Je wilt gewoon aandacht, zielepoot.

[@thijs275]

@@gustavthemagician en wat zou dit te maken met mijn eventuele huidskleur?

[@Dextamartijn]

great job on explaining the polder process ben je Nederlands ik vind het altijd mooi om door de polder te rijden en vanaf de weg urk te zien

[@AwoudeX]

That's not a Dutch saying, but an english one, we don't say that of ourselves, it's been people in the anglosphere looking at us with amazement at how we expanded without conquering (unless one can conquer the sea, which we the Dutch don't believe in)

[@ruhalfoyls]

on the other hand Caligula did believe in in and would have been proud XD

[@invivoik]

Also Sweden and Finland are gaining their lands every year but naturally due to effect called postglacial land uplift or rebound. For Finland it is 7 square kilometers per year.

[@maremaarten]

Something you should be proud of! Vanuit België: goed gedaan!

[@kamion53]

what often is forgotten in this glamerous tale of land reclaiming is that that same land was first lost to the sea due to human activity. First in prehistoric time people settled on the moors, whhich reached often till 5 meter ABOVE sealevel. Settlement eroded the topsoil and the acces of air to the peat made the moors sink. Then there was another activity giving landloss, nl peat digging for fuel, it left open water and wind got grip on those lakes eating its way into the peat. The largest landclaim of the 19th century was the Haarlemmermeer, original three seperated lakes in the area between Amsterdam, Haarlem and Leiden. Due to wind erosion whole vllages were swallowed and the growing lake, too dangerous to sail, eat it's steady way into the direction of Amsterdam, seperated by only a narrow strip of land from the Ij.

[@Profligateslayer]

0:30 *shows hill* You sure this is the Netherlands?

[@barrypieloor6769]

Yes, why are you jealous a little bit?

[@Emdee5632]

In fact the highest point of the Netherlands (close to the Belgian and German parts of the Ardennes) is about 322 meters I think (1056 feet). In Dutch, it's called the Vaalserberg (Vaalser mountain) :-)

[@richardcarson7094]

Very well done, researched and narrated!

[@youneskasdi]

The Dutch are just fighting poseidon himself by now and are i fact winning

[@garay_riveros]

mate, you saved my life. My humanities assignment was vaugue AF, asking about the Zunderzee works, and now I finally have something to write on :)

[@SimplySpace]

WHY HAS KZbin TAKEN SO LONG TO SHOW ME THIS VIDEO! It's so interesting!

[@simonw3858]

2:45 "All the field of reed were BURNED!" Sorry you just sounded so evil when you said that.

[@theamericandutchman8067]

You ain't much if you aren't Dutch!

[@kiltmaster7041]

The longest dam in history.... You might even go so far as to call it a "god-dam."

[@riejannegnodde2614]

First shot of the video was from my home town!

[@AndrewAHayes]

I worked in Zeeland for 18 months installing pumping stations to manage water levels

[@ajdegroot1980]

As someone living in Zeeland I thank you 😜

[@Tristan-]

We don't fear the sea The sea fears us

[@zyroxyzzero580]

Netherlands is a beautiful country, I visited those areas last winter before the virus outbreak

[@Ok-oj5vu]

What cities/areas have you been to?

[@zyroxyzzero580]

@@Ok-oj5vu Amsterdam and, Zwolle, I recall a village not far from Zwolle with many beautiful houses near a river,, Giethoorn

[@Ok-oj5vu]

@@zyroxyzzero580 ok that's nice, some tourists only go to Amsterdam and then say they have seen the Netherlands. One city is not equal to a whole country.

[@Udhaya.K]

Fantastic video. My wife, daughter and I watched very closely till the end. Amazing engineering and of course an awesome video. Thank you uploaded! ❤️

[@panbrood]

Our dike building started out as a temporary measure for draining peat marshes for economical reasons, while we lived on what were basically 'deforested islands in a sea of peat'. The increased body of open water made it easier for flash floods (from ever rising seas) to reach further inland, where the earlier marshes used to absorb these flash floods.

[@MorganBrown]

That was educational, thanks!

[@g.a.c.4139]

I was born in Holland (Delft) in 1959, but we moved to the USA in 1966. My knowledge of The Netherlands is pitiful, but your videos are helping! I had an aunt and uncle who recovered many bodies of victims of the big flood in the early 1950's...it made them wealthy (every aspect of that is disturbing). Thanks for your great video!!

[@sorsorsor11]

I love how they don't argue about politics like in the US. Just ask: what is best for the country? And they are like...Well let's do it than.

[@srinip]

Very well said.

[@adamhale6672]

I’m sure that there was debate over it. Many American politicians have become extremists in their own right though which is not good for making reasonable decisions.

[@6zeekoe9]

It took decades and decades to even start considering this plan politically. Cornelis Lely created the plan that was brought to execution (for the most part), but he stood in a long line of engineers and activists to create this plan. And throughout the whole process it was always debated. As you see, the last polder wasn’t made dry.

[@MonkeyPunchZPoker]

The less diverse a population is the greater chance you can convince the populace to sacrifice for the greater good, which is usually best for everyone long term. Unfortunately an insane push for diversity in first world countries is putting an end to that.

[@Arjay404]

They do argue, it's just that with many things they agree on the facts and actually take time to listen to each others valid concerns.

[@raphcest8408]

Already forwarded to 3 Dutch friends : very very informative ! Danku!

[@juana3043]

Ik hoorde dat je Nederlands was. Good job!

[@someoneelse3921]

@Desi Raand Uh, can you fuck off with your bullshit?

[@Allen-cb6xo]

@Desi Raand what is with you spamming that?

[@HistoryScope]

I have removed him from the channel. He can still comment but nobody can see his comments anymore, except himself...

[@anthonyman4729]

@@HistoryScope nope

[@unidecimo]

I am very curious what this Desi Raand said now...