Dordrecht The Netherlands 🇳🇱 | Walking Tour Dordrecht 🇳🇱 [Maart 2022]

Dordrecht The Netherlands 🇳🇱 | Walking Tour Dordrecht 🇳🇱 [Maart 2022] Don’t click this: The name Dordrecht comes from Thuredriht (circa 1120), Thuredrecht (circa 1200). The name seems to mean ’thoroughfare’; a ship-canal or -river through which ships were pulled by rope from one river to another, as here from the Dubbel to the Merwede, or vice versa. Earlier etymologists had assumed that the ’drecht’ suffix came from Latin ’trajectum’, a ford, but this was rejected in 1996.[9] The Drecht is now supposed to have been derived from ’draeg’, which means to pull, tow or drag. Inhabitants of Dordrecht are Dordtenaren (singular: Dordtenaar). Dordrecht is informally called Dordt by its inhabitants. In earlier centuries, Dordrecht was a major trading port and was called Dort in English The city was formed along the Thure river, in the midst of peat marshes. This river was a branch of the river Dubbel, which i