Vliet (body of water)

Vliet is an Old Dutch term for a watercourse . This can be a stream, river, canal or drainage ditch.

A number of Dutch waters are named accordingly.

• Vliet, a former river in the city of Leeuwarden , which today lives on as a city street under the names Noordvliet and Zuidvliet.
• Delftse Vliet , a canal between Delft and The Hague . ^*1
• Maalvliet De Pleyt , a watercourse in Willeskop.
• Noordvliet , a canal near Maassluis .
• Roosendaalse Vliet , a stream near Roosendaal in North Brabant.
• Steenbergse Vliet , waters near Steenbergen in North Brabant .
• Trekvliet , a body of water in Leiden . ^*1
• Vliet (South Holland) , a small canal near Leiden to The Hague. ^*1
• De Vliet, a tributary of the Dommel near Achel.
• De Vlieter, a former fairway through a sandback in the Wadden Sea between the island of Texel and the mainland, near the island of Wieringen and today's dike

^{* 1} parts of the Rhine-Schie Canal , which the Dutch often call Vliet for short.

In urban areas, the Vliets are often built over and the names can then be found in the street names: Brouwersvliet in Antwerp or Gedempte Vliet in Leeuwarden. Etymologically , vliet is related to the High German Fließ and the Low German Fleth / Fleet .