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- Gracht abstract "Gracht (Dutch pronunciation: [ɣrɑxt]) (plural: grachten) is a Dutch word frequently encountered by non-Dutch people when confronted with several things related to the Netherlands, such as Dutch art (e.g. 17th-century town-views of grachten), Dutch history (Anne Frank House on the Prinsengracht) or tourism (boating tours on the grachten of Amsterdam). The word cannot be easily translated; for this reason, it is necessary to distinguish between four related terms: A kanaal (literally meaning canal) is a manmade water course, usually in the countryside, irrespective of whether it has streets along its banks. A vaart is a canal essentially used for transport rather than, for instance, drainage. Like most kanalen, they are usually in the countryside. A gracht (city-canal) is a waterway in the city with streets on both sides of the water. The streets are lined with houses, often in a closed front. (In rare exceptions there is only one street, where on the other side of the waterway the houses border on the water; see the photograph \"Example of half a gracht\".) A singel is by origin a water-filled moat which surrounds a city for defense purposes. When the city expands, the singel is incorporated in the city’s structure and cannot be distinguished any more from a gracht, although the name ‘singel’ is usually maintained. As such, singels often encircle (older) parts of the city. But in other cases regular grachten were dug in circles as well, like the famous grachtengordel (canal-belt) of Amsterdam.Although the word gracht means \"canal\" or \"waterway\" in the general sense, there no exact equivalent for the term in English, therefore it is best left untranslated.".
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- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Alkmaar.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Amersfoort.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Amsterdam.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Anne_Frank_House.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Antwerp.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Bank_(geography).
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Bredevoort.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Bruges.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Canal.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Canals_of_Amsterdam.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Cape_Town.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Category:Canals.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geography_of_Belgium.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Category:Water_transport_infrastructure.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Category:Waterways_in_the_Netherlands.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink City.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Defensive_wall.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Delft.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Deventer.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Dordrecht.
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- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Dutch_language.
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- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink English_language.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Flemish.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Frisian_languages.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Ghent.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Gouda,_South_Holland.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Grachtengordel_(Amsterdam).
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Groningen.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Gronings_dialect.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Haarlem.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Hanseatic_League.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Harlingen,_Friesland.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Hindeloopen.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink History_of_Amsterdam.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink History_of_the_Netherlands.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Hoorn.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink House.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Kampen,_Overijssel.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Leeuwarden.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Leiden.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Lier,_Belgium.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Meppel.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Middelburg.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Moat.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Municipal_charter.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Netherlands.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Oude_Delft.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Rotterdam.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Rural_area.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Ship_transport.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Sneek.
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- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Table_Mountain.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink The_Hague.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Tourism_in_the_Netherlands.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Translation.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Utrecht.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Veenendaal.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Venice.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Weesp.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink William_II_of_Holland.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Zutphen.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink Zwolle.
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink s-Hertogenbosch.
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- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink File:Blaeu_-_Delft_Nrs._Grachten.jpg.
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- Gracht wikiPageWikiLink File:Groningen_Der_Aa-kerk_april04.jpg.
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- Gracht wikiPageWikiLinkText "Gracht".
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLinkText "Stadsbuitengracht".
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLinkText "canal".
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLinkText "canals".
- Gracht wikiPageWikiLinkText "gracht".
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- Gracht subject Category:Canals.
- Gracht subject Category:Geography_of_Belgium.
- Gracht subject Category:Water_transport_infrastructure.
- Gracht subject Category:Waterways_in_the_Netherlands.
- Gracht hypernym Word.
- Gracht type Food.
- Gracht type Landform.
- Gracht comment "Gracht (Dutch pronunciation: [ɣrɑxt]) (plural: grachten) is a Dutch word frequently encountered by non-Dutch people when confronted with several things related to the Netherlands, such as Dutch art (e.g. 17th-century town-views of grachten), Dutch history (Anne Frank House on the Prinsengracht) or tourism (boating tours on the grachten of Amsterdam).".