Leeuwarden was formed in 1435 from the amalgamation of three Wurten settlements. These small villages on hills were created in around the 3rd century BC. To protect them from storm floods and rising sea levels, the villages were encircled with ring-shaped embankments and elevated with banks of earth.
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