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The name Reimerswaal can mean:
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Reimerswaal (city) A lost city in the Netherlands
- Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal The now-drowned land around the city
- Battle of Reimerswaal on 29 January 1574 during the Eighty Years' War
- Reimerswaal (municipality) A municipality in Zealand, Netherlands, named after the lost city
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Reimerswaal is a municipality in the province of Zeeland in the southwestern Netherlands on Zuid-Beveland, named after the lost city. The municipality had a population of in , and has a surface area of of which is water. The central town Yerseke is known for trade in mussels and oysters. Kruiningen is known for the former ferry from Kruiningen to Perkpolder which was in service up to 2003. The municipality of Reimerswaal was established in 1970, from the aggregation of the municipalities Krabbendijke, Kruiningen, Rilland-Bath, Waarde, and Yerseke.
Reimerswaal is a lost city in the Netherlands.
The present-day municipality of Reimerswaal is named after this city, which was granted city rights in 1374. The city was destroyed by repeated floods, and the last citizens left in 1632. Nothing remains. It was located north of the current municipality, on the east end of the Oosterschelde, on land which is now called the Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal ("Drowned Land of Reimerswaal").
Category:Former populated places in the Netherlands Category:History of Zeeland