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Nieuwpoort (Municipality, Province of West Flanders, Belgium) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | The village of Nieuwpoort proper is not located on the sea shore, but the municipality is mostly popular for its sea resort, Nieuwpoort-Bad, built from 1864 to 1893 by Baron Benjamin Crombez, owner of the lands on the sea shore. |
 | | As a port city, Nieuwpoort was often besieged, siezed and trashed, for instance by the French in 1213, 1299 and 1328, and the troops from Ghent in 1383. |
 | | The marina of Nieuwpoort (Eurojachthaven) is the biggest marina in northern Europe, with some 2,000 mooring spaces (450 in the "Vlotkom", main basin; 300 in the"Noorderhaven", northern port; and 1,200 in the "Novus Portus", new port). |
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