Editing Sluis (section)

==History==
[[File:Sluis, Netherlands ; Ferraris Map.jpg|thumb|left|Sint Anna ter Muiden and Sluis on the [[Ferraris map]] (around 1775)]]
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The town received [[City rights in the Netherlands|city rights]] in 1290. In 1340 the [[Battle of Sluys]] was fought nearby at sea during the [[Hundred Years' War]].  There is a record of one of the first lotteries with money on 9 May 1455 of 1737 florins (US$170,000, in 2014).

During the [[Eighty Years' War]] in 1587 the town [[Siege of Sluis (1587)|was captured]] by Spanish troops under the [[Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma|Duke of Parma]] and [[Siege of Sluis (1604)|was retaken]] in 1604 by a Dutch and English force under [[Maurice of Nassau]].

From 2006 until its closure in 2013, [[Oud Sluis]] was one of only two [[Michelin Guide|Michelin]] three-starred restaurants in the entire country.