The backlight street

This street in backlight is a typical street with side to side placed historical houses in the small town of Edam, 2016.

 

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Edam (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈeːdɑm] ( listen)) is a city in the northwest Netherlands, in the province of North Holland and nearby Volendam. Approximately 7,380 people live in Edam.

 

Edam is famous as the original source of the cheese with the same name.

 

The city of Edam was founded around a dam crossing the river E or IJe close by the Zuiderzee now known as the IJsselmeer. Around 1230 the channel was dammed. At the dam goods had to be loaded onto other vessels and the inhabitants of Edam could levy a toll. This enabled Edam to grow as a trade town. Shipbuilding and fishing brought Edam more wealth.

 

Count Willem V of Holland gave Edam city rights in 1357. One of the reasons he did this was because of the war between the Hoeken and the Kabeljauwen. They fought a battle for the rule over the cities of Holland.

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