Zuyderzée department

Map of the departments in today's Benelux region

The Département du Zuyderzée (or Zuyder-zée ) was a French department that existed from January 1, 1811 to 1814 .

The name is derived from what was then the Zuiderzee . The area corresponds more or less to that of the present-day Dutch provinces of North Holland and Utrecht .

After Napoleon's defeat in 1814, the area corresponded, essentially in the old borders, to North Holland and Utrecht Monastery in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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The main town ( chef-lieu ) of the department or seat of the prefecture was the city of Amsterdam . It was divided into six arrondissements :

Arrondissement	Main towns in the cantons, seat of the courts of justice
Amsterdam	Amsterdam (6 cantons), Baambrugge , Kudelstaart , Loenen , Naarden , Nieuwer-Amstel , Oud-Loosdrecht , Watergraafsmeer , Weesp
Alkmaar	Alkmaar (2 cantons), De Rijp , Schagen , Texel , Wieringen , Zijpe
Amersfoort	Amersfoort (2 cantons), Rhenen , Wijk bij Duurstede
Haarlem	Beverwijk , Bloemendaal , Haarlem (2 cantons), Heemstede , Oostzaan , Westzaan , Zaandam
Hoorn	Edam , Enkhuizen , Grootebroek , Hoorn (2 cantons), Medemblik , Monnickendam , Purmerend
Utrecht	Maarssen , Mijdrecht , Schoonhoven , Utrecht (2 cantons), Woerden , IJsselstein

The department had an area of ​​9501 square kilometers and in 1812 a total of 507,500 inhabitants.

See also

• French departments in Central Europe from 1792 to 1814

Individual evidence

1. ^ Albrecht Friedrich Ludolph Lasius : The French Kayser State under the government of the Kayser Napoleon the Great in 1812 . A Geographical-Historical Manual, First Department, Osnabrück: Johann Gottfried Kißling, 1813, p. 520 ( Google Books )
2. ↑ ^{a b} Almanach Impérial 1812 , Paris, p. 483 ( Bibliothèque nationale de France )