Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Schokland and Surroundings' has mentioned 'Water' in the following places:
Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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The struggle of the people of the Netherlands against water has endured, for more than six thousand years, and still continues today; without constant vigilance, more than half the present area of the country would be entirely submerged or subject to periodic inundation. | UNESCO |
It symbolizes the heroic, age-old struggle of the people of the Netherlands against the encroachment of the water. | UNESCO |
The area provides exceptional evidence of a cultural tradition of island-dwellers threatened by the water and ultimately evacuated; the first residents on the land reclaimed from the sea cultivated and developed that new land. | UNESCO |
Criterion (v):Schokland is included in the agricultural landscape that was created as a result of the reclamation of the former Zuider Zee, part of the never-ceasing struggle of the people of the Netherlands against the water and one of the greatest and most visionary human achievements of the twentieth century. | UNESCO |
The nomination dossier was subtitled xe2x80x9csymbol of the Dutch battle against water,xe2x80x9d an apt description of Schokland and its authenticity. | UNESCO |