Zuid-Beveland

Zuid-Beveland is part of the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands north of the Westerschelde and south of the Oosterschelde.TopographyIt is a former island, now peninsula, crossed by the Canal through Zuid-Beveland on the west and the Scheldt-Rhine Canal on the east.It consists of four municipalities:BorseleGoesKapelleReimerswaal Goes is Zuid-Beveland's principal urban center.Zuid-Beveland is a former island which was joined (together with Walcheren) to the mainland by a railway embankment in 1903 and to Noord-Beveland by the Delta Works. A shipping canal connecting the Belgian port of Antwerp with the Rhine River traverses Zuid-Beveland.HistoryThird and fourth centuriesThis was the period during which most of Zeeland appears to have been submerged. The area was and for several centuries would remain almost unpeopled.