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Marken ((:ˈmɑrkən); Marken's dialect: ''Mereke'') is a village with a population of 1,810 in the municipality of Waterland in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands. Marken forms a peninsula in the Markermeer and was formerly an island in the Zuiderzee. The characteristic wooden houses of Marken are a tourist attraction. == History == Marken was an island in the Zuiderzee.〔 (Geschiedenis van Marken ), Marker Museum. Retrieved 19 August 2015.〕 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 anthropologists, who regarded the small fishing town as a relic of the traditional native culture that was destined to disappear as the modernization of the Netherlands gained pace.〔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.〕 Among them was Johann Friedrich Blumenbach who examined a skull from the island of humans which he called Batavus genuinus; and was the Belgian painter Xavier Mellery who stayed in Marken at the request of Decoster. Mellery was asked to perform illustrative work and delivered several intimist works. The projects of Cornelis Lely was to incorporated the island into the markerwaard. The dike, built in 1941 in the north, is the first phase of that project which was stopped by the war. In 1983, the Marker Museum about the history of the island was opened.〔 (Het Marker Museum ), Marker Museum. Retrieved 18 August 2015.〕 Marken was a separate municipality until 1991, when it was merged into Waterland. File:Marken Island2.jpg|Girls in traditional costumes (c. 1900) File:Eiland Marken - Visser 1900.jpg|Fisherman in traditional costume (c. 1900) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marken」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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