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==History== [[File:Nieuwpoort, Belgium ; Ferraris Map.jpg|thumb|left|Nieuwpoort on the [[Ferraris map]] (around 1775)]] It obtained [[city rights]] in 1163 from [[Count of Flanders|Count]] [[Philip I, Count of Flanders|Philip of Flanders]]. The [[Battle of Nieuwpoort]], between the Dutch and the Spanish, happened here in 1600. The city was a [[Dunkirker]] base. Painter [[Victor Boucquet]] made two of the altar-pieces for the great church in the 17th century. In 1671, [[Antonio Vélaz de Medrano, I Marquess of Tabuérniga|Antonio Vélaz de Medrano, 1st Marquess of Tabuérniga]] became governor of the city.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Tellez |first=Diego |date=2015-01-01 |title=La conspiración del marqués de Tabuérniga |url=https://www.academia.edu/67667103/La_conspiraci%C3%B3n_del_marqu%C3%A9s_de_Tabu%C3%A9rniga |journal=Cuadernos Jovellanistas. De la Ilustración a la Modernidad}}</ref> The city was occupied by French forces for six years between 1757 and 1763, as part of the conditions of the [[Second Treaty of Versailles]] between France and Austria. A large waterworks infrastructure project called the ''[[Ganzepoot]]'' (''goose foot'', in Dutch) was constructed in Nieuwpoort in the 19th century to drain the [[polders]] and channel water in and around the town and to the [[North Sea]]. [[File:0 Nieuport - Novembre 1917.JPG|thumb|left|Destruction caused to the city of Nieuport in November 1917]] [[File:Belgium - Anvers through Ostende - NARA - 68154542 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Damage in 1919]] During the [[Battle of the Yser]], part of the [[First Battle of Ypres]] in [[World War I]], [[Hendrik Geeraert]] opened the [[sluice]] gates on the mouth of the river [[Yser]] twice to flood the lower lying land, thus halting the German advance. Two [[World War I]] monuments, the [[Nieuport Memorial]] and [[King Albert I Memorial]], are in close proximity of the Ganzepoot.
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