Edam is a city in the Dutch province of Noord-Holland, Netherlands. Around 7,380 people live in Edam. The name Edam originates from a dam on the little river E or IJe where the first settlement was located and which was therefore called IJedam.

The city of Edam was founded around a dam crossing the river E or IJe close by the Zuiderzee now known as the IJsselmeer in Around 1230.

Edam is famous as the original source of the cheese with the same name.

I spent some time in the Netherlands back in the early 60's ,while in the Navy , when The Zuiderzee (South Sea) was an inland salt water extension of the North Sea. When I returned in the late 90's the Salt water Sea had been seperated from the North Sea and converted to a fresh water lake.



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