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List of windmills

The List of windmills is a link page for any windmill or windpump.

Africa

South Africa

Asia

Indonesia

The Dutch colonists in Batavia built at least four wind-powered sawmills around the Bay of Batavia, many years after founding Batavia (now Jakarta) in 1619, but these were not entirely successful. People and animals (water buffalo) powered mills also and previously (introduced by the Chinese). Out of about 25 Dutch-designed mills in the area, their water-powered mills were the most successful. Specifically, around 1675 a first wind-powered sawmill was built on the island of De Kuyper (now Pulu Burung) to support the Onrust Island (Pulu Kapal) dockyard that repaired Dutch East India Company ships. By 1685 there were two built in Onrust and around 1705 another was built on the island of Edam (Pulu Damar.

All four were destroyed by British bombardment on 9 November 1800. Under Napoleon, the Dutch nation which was named the Batavian Republic from 17xx to 18xx) had become part of the French empire, and Batavia in the East Indies was included. The bombardment was near the end of the War of the Second Coalition that pitted Britain and almost all of Europe against the First French Republic. This must have been part of the East Indies theatre of the French Revolutionary Wars.

Israel

Japan

Syria

Taiwan

Thailand

Oceania

Australia

New Zealand

Europe

Austria

Belarus

Belgium

Bulgaria

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Ireland

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Malta

Netherlands

Virtually every small town and polder in the Netherlands has one or more windmills. The Zaanstreek alone has had over a thousand industrial windmills, each with a name and well-documented history (see list of windmills at Zaanse Schans). Other well-known windmills are the windmills at Kinderdijk.

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Russia

Slovakia

Spain

Sweden

Turkey

Ukraine

United Kingdom

Channel Islands

Isle of Man

North America

Antigua

Barbados

Canada

Guadeloupe

Saint Kitts and Nevis

United States

In the United States, there are some traditional windmills, but the American usage of the word "windmill" includes some that are actually windpumps.

South America

Brazil

Uruguay

References

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