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Much of the Netherlands is famously below sea level, and maintained with dikes and pumps. But when and why did the Netherland stop reclaiming large parcels of new land from the sea? How did they decide they had enough land, or couldn't realistically get more?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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