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Latest comment: 1 year ago by Criticalthinker in topic History

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Always a bit confused by the St. Fleix's flood or 1530 being used as the date that Western Scheldt took over as the estuary for the Scheldt. The Dutch wikipedia article seems to say that as early as the 1200s that the Honte (which originally flowed east into the Scheldt from some indeterminant location to the west) had connected to the Sincfal/Zwin (which flowed west into the seat). I'm confused as to why the Eastern Scheldt was considered the mouth and estuary of the river in the Middle Ages, at all, considering how wide the Honte already was by then? Even reconstructions of the land from that time show the Scheldt having to take a rather sharp turn to the east and forced through a very small channel in between Zuid-Beveland and the mainland. The Honte was always just so much wider than this small stream used to get to the Eastern Scheldt that I'm failing to understand this. Even after the eastern part of Zuid-Beveland was inundated and fell below the water, it was still higher ground than anything in the Honte. It would appear that the Western Scheldt has captured much of the Scheldt's flow LONG before 1530. Can someone explain and add this to the article?--Criticalthinker (talk) 06:15, 16 September 2024 (UTC)Reply