Editing Marken

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| image_caption           = Marken in 2015  
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| subdivision_name2       = [[Waterland]]
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| elevation_footnotes     = <ref name="AHN">{{cite web |url = http://www.ahn.nl/postcodetool |title = Postcodetool for 1156AA |language = nl |work = Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland |date = 24 July 2019 |publisher = Het Waterschapshuis |access-date = 2 May 2022 }}</ref>
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| area_total_km2          = 2.68
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| postal_code             = 1156<ref>{{in lang|nl}} [https://www.postcode.nl/zoek/Marken, Zoekresultaten], Postcode.nl. Retrieved 19 August 2015.</ref>
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| area_code               = 0299<ref>{{in lang|nl}} [http://www.telefoonboek.nl/netnummer/ Netnummer zoeken], Telefoonboek.nl. Retrieved 19 August 2015.</ref>
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'''Marken''' ({{IPA|nl|ˈmɑrkə(n)}}; Marken's dialect: ''Mereke'') is a village in the [[List of municipalities of the Netherlands|municipality]] of [[Waterland]] in the [[Provinces of the Netherlands|province]] of [[North Holland]], [[Netherlands]]. It had a population of 1,745 as of 2021,<ref name="stat"/> and occupies a peninsula in the [[Markermeer]]. It was, until 1957, an island in the former [[Zuiderzee]]. The characteristic wooden houses of Marken are a tourist attraction.

==History==
===Early years===
Marken was an island in the [[Zuiderzee]].<ref>{{in lang|nl}} [http://www.markermuseum.nl/?page_id=142 Geschiedenis van Marken], Marker Museum. Retrieved 19 August 2015.</ref>

For some time during the later 19th and early 20th centuries, Marken and its inhabitants were the focus of considerable attention by [[folklorists]], [[ethnographers]] and [[physical anthropology|physical anthropologists]], who regarded the small fishing town as a relic of the traditional native culture that was destined to disappear as modernization of the Netherlands gained pace.<ref>H.W. Roodenburg, "Marken als relict: het samengaan van schilderkunst, toerisme, volkskunde en fysische antropologie rond 1900". ''Volkskundig Bulletin'' 25.2/3 (1999), 197-214.</ref> Among them were [[Johann Friedrich Blumenbach]] who examined a human skull from the island which he called [[Batavus genuinus]]; and was the Belgian painter [[Xavier Mellery]] who stayed in Marken at the request of [[Charles De Coster]]. Mellery was asked to create illustrative work and delivered several [[Intimism (art movement)|intimist]] works.

[[Cornelis Lely]]'s designs incorporated the island into a proposed [[Markerwaard]]. A partial dike, built in 1941 in the north, is the first phase of that project which was stopped by [[World War II]].

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File:Marken Island2.jpg|Girls in traditional costumes (circa 1900)
File:Eiland Marken - Visser 1900.jpg|Fisherman in traditional costume (circa 1900)
</gallery>

===Recent times===
The island appeared as a location in the 1970 film [[Puppet on a Chain (film)|''Puppet on a Chain'']]. In 1983, the [[Marker Museum]] about the history of the island was opened.<ref>{{in lang|nl}} [http://www.markermuseum.nl/?page_id=69 Het Marker Museum], Marker Museum. Retrieved 18 August 2015.</ref> Marken was a separate municipality until 1991, when it was merged into [[Waterland]].<ref>{{Repertorium Nederlandse Gemeenten}}</ref>

== Geography ==
Marken is in the municipality of [[Waterland]] in the east of the province of [[North Holland]] in the west of the [[Netherlands]]. Marken is a [[peninsula]] in the [[Markermeer]], of which is it is the namesake, and is connected to the mainland of North Holland by a [[causeway]].

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File:Marken NASA.jpg|Satellite image
File:Calle principal Marken.JPG|Street in 2009
File:Grotewerf 21 28154.jpg|Wooden house
File:Paard van Marken.JPG|[[Paard van Marken]], the lighthouse
File:Kerkbuurt 44 Museum 28224.jpg|[[Marker Museum]]
File:Marken Hafen um 1970 (Sp).jpg|Havenbuurt about 1970
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{{wide image|GroteWerfMarkenNederland.jpg|800px|align-cap=center|A panorama of Marken showing the community of Grote Werf with the village of Marken in the background}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Marken}}
* {{in lang|nl}} [http://www.waterland.nl/over-waterland/kernen/marken/ Marken] at the website of the municipality of [[Waterland]]
* {{Wikivoyage-inline|Marken}}

{{Geographic location
|title     = Neighbouring cities, villages, and bodies of water
|Centre    = Marken
|North     = 
|Northeast = 
|East      = ''[[Markermeer]]''
|Southeast = [[Almere]]
|South     = 
|Southwest = [[Uitdam]]
|West      = ''[[Gouwzee]]''<br>[[Katwoude]]<br>[[Monnickendam]]
|Northwest = [[Volendam]]
}}

{{Dutch municipality Waterland}}
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[[Category:Marken| ]]
[[Category:Former islands of the Netherlands]]
[[Category:Former municipalities of North Holland]]
[[Category:Islands of North Holland]]
[[Category:Populated places in North Holland]]
[[Category:Waterland]]