Editing Vlieland (section)

==History==
The northern part of the island of [[Texel]], [[Eierland]], once was the southwestern part of Vlieland. A storm surge in 1296 probably separated Eierland from Vlieland.<ref>J.T. Bremer, [https://books.google.com/books?id=c83OJ_OXYFAC&pg=PA100 De genese van de Kop van Noord-Holland en het westelijk Waddengebied], in ''Van Groningen tot Zeeland: geschiedenis van het cultuurhistorisch onderzoek naar het kustlandschap'', Uitgeverij Verloren, 2010, p. 1100</ref> Erosion further diminished the size of Vlieland from the west, leading in 1736 to the disappearance of a second village on Vlieland, [[West-Vlieland]] ({{lang |nl |Westeijnde}}), after the inhabitants had tried for decades to rebuild the town following numerous floods.

During the [[Second World War]], Vlieland became part of the German [[Atlantic Wall]]. The occupying German forces built two anti-aircraft batteries and stationed more soldiers on the island than there were inhabitants. In 1942 the islands of Vlieland and Terschelling were transferred from the province of [[North Holland]] to [[Friesland]] and the situation was not reversed after the war.<ref>[http://www.frieslandzoalshetwas.nl/?q=1&aflnr=62&artid=1 Friesland zoals het was, September 1942] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151224052746/http://www.frieslandzoalshetwas.nl/?q=1&aflnr=62&artid=1 |date=2015-12-24 }}, [[Tresoar]]</ref> The [[:nl:Posthuis van Vlieland|mail station]] in the western part of the island is a reminder that in the past mail was delivered by ferry from Texel.

Because of this history, Vlieland natives do not speak [[West Frisian language|Frisian]]. The original dialect, ''Vlielands'', was related to the dialect of Texel and to other Dutch dialects in North Holland. The last native speaker, Petronella de Boer-Zeylemaker, died in 1993 at the age of 107.<ref>Harrie Scholtmeijer, [http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/jo_daan/12Scholtmeijer.pdf Veranderingen in het Vlielands] at the [[Meertens Institute]] website</ref>