Dordrecht
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The Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk church (or Grotekerk) in Dordrecht, the Netherlands. Construction began in the 13th century, but completion was delayed until the late 15th century due to various sieges, fires, and floods.
| Old port on the River Merwede on an island in the Maas, South Holland province, the Netherlands, 19 km/12 mi southeast of Rotterdam; population (2006 est) 118,800. It has shipbuilding yards and makes heavy machinery, plastics, and chemicals. It is intersected by canals and has many attractive old thoroughfares and gabled houses. |
| Rotterdam has now attracted much of the traffic which once made Dordrecht one of the richest and most important trading town of Holland and a member of the Hanseatic League. |
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