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Rijk
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rijk -rijk
Dutch
Etymology
The village that existed in the 19th and 20th centuries was named after the older drowned village that had existed near the location. nl
Pronunciation
nl /rɛi̯k/
nl Nl-Rijk.ogg
nl Rijk
nl ɛi̯k
Proper noun
n
a former village in Noord-Holland, the Netherlands, demolished in 1959, located at what is now one of the runways of Schiphol from 19th c.
a drowned village in Noord-Holland, the Netherlands, destroyed by the Haarlemmermeer in the seventeenth century
nl Rietwijk
Derived terms
nl Rijkenaar