Enkhuizen, a town of North Holland, one of the 'dead cities of the Zuider Zee,' 35 miles NNE. of Amsterdam. It once sent out 400 ships to the herring-fishery, and had 40,000 inhabitants; but its harbour has gradually silted up. It was the first town to throw off the Spanish yoke (1572), and in 1625 was Paul Potter's birthplace. Pop. 6751.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 383
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