Editing Zuid-Beveland (section)

=== The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ===
As a result of the [[St. Felix's flood]] in November 1530, much of the island disappeared under water. Towns and villages were lost to what became known as the [[Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal|drowned land of Zuid-Beveland]] (''Pays inondé de Zuid-Beveland / Verdronken Land van Zuid-Beveland'').<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.natuurmonumenten.nl/natuurgebieden/verdronken-land-van-zuid-beveland |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231203040703/https://www.natuurmonumenten.nl/natuurgebieden/verdronken-land-van-zuid-beveland |title=Verdronken Land van Zuid-Beveland |language=nl |publisher=Natuurmonumenten |date= |archive-date=3 December 2023}}</ref> The island was again badly impacted forty years later in November 1570 by the [[All Saints' Flood (1570)|All Saints' Day Flood]] (''Allerheiligenvloed'' / ''Inondations de la Toussaint'').

Between 1568 and 1648, during the course of what by its weary end had become the [[Eighty Years' War]], the surviving lands of Zuid-Beveland were frequently in the military theatre of operations.