| In all these cases, including the farmers who provisioned the trading posts, small and large businesses dominated daily life in New Amsterdam. |
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| Bicycles in Amsterdam nearly outnumber people, and God knows how many flat-bottomed houseboats line the canals. |
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| There was a famous cathedral in Amsterdam that operated as a sort of agora, a public forum. |
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| The trio was formed when the German keyboardist and Amsterdam drummer met at the Conservatory. |
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| The Assembly rejected repudiation because they feared antagonizing the moneylenders of Paris, Amsterdam, Hamburg, and Geneva. |
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| I've driven in Paris, in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in Rome and in Athens, all of them reckoned to be nightmarish. |
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| And so to Studio 150, named after the venue in Amsterdam where this collection was recorded. |
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| As I will show in this paper, the Amsterdam red-light district is characterized by its own set of socially and spatially defined rules. |
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| Ethnographic research in the Amsterdam red-light district shows that these assumptions are often deceptive. |
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| To Amsterdam, red light capital of the universe, where my man with a reefer reports on the finale to this year's Tall Ships Race. |
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| I seek leave to table one example I found in Amsterdam, which is alcohol-free beer. |
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| Instead, the new offerings resembled sleeker versions of the utilitarian models pedaled in cities like Amsterdam or Brussels. |
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| Like McEwan's Amsterdam, Atonement and Enduring Love, Saturday turns on a single event that forever alters its characters' lives. |
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| Eighteen months later the family Davids emigrated to Holland, where they settled in a poor suburb just north of Amsterdam. |
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| Finally, at Amsterdam in June 1997 the heads of government agreed to renumber the articles. |
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| I won't go into details, but trust me, after what I saw him do in Amsterdam I'll never eat a Bundt cake again. |
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| I visited the chief of police in charge of the Amsterdam vice squad, as we would call it. |
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| The Amsterdam treaty did not empower the council to permit reverse discrimination in Northern Ireland. |
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| I must say Amsterdam is a great place, but my life expectancy would spectacularly diminish if I stayed there. |
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| A last-ditch attempt to persuade an Amsterdam court to stop the company's supervisory board from vetoing the sale yesterday came to nothing. |
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| An 88-passenger riverboat, River Cloud, will travel on the Danube River from Amsterdam to Antwerp. |
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| Evening sun is glowing across the aircraft on the apron as incredibly dark clouds loom over distant Amsterdam city centre. |
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| The North Sea roils just off the former hippie village of Monster, 40 miles southwest of Amsterdam. |
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| They have separate stock exchange listings in Amsterdam, London and New York. |
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| Just a few minutes into our trek to Amsterdam we mistakenly followed the way one sign was facing instead of the direction of the arrow on it. |
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| He was murdered on September 6 by arsenic poisoning while on a Geruda Airlines flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam. |
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| Back in the airport, I'm far from impressed when I check in for my long-haul flight to Amsterdam. |
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| In Amsterdam, a 17th-century core of low-rise row houses nestles along the city's canals. |
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| Have a look at works of leading contemporary artists in the areas of constructivism, tachism and lyrical abstractivism in Amsterdam. |
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| As for mud, he travels the world with a lump of it in his backpack to make wall pieces for galleries from Amsterdam to New York. |
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| The airport is used by holiday charter airlines and has scheduled flights to Aberdeen and Amsterdam in the Netherlands. |
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| In Amsterdam, vehicle access is colour coded, with bikeways being marked by red bricks. |
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| The narrow, leaning buildings and the large city park, Vondelpark, make Amsterdam a picturesque city for walking or biking. |
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| Autumn is the time of year when we draw in our horns and make shorter sorties across the Channel to the likes of Paris, Bruges and Amsterdam. |
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| The Scottish elite was still thirsty for images and acquired them through networks in Paris and Amsterdam. |
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| No visit to Amsterdam is complete without sampling a cone of French fries served with mayonnaise or peanut butter sauce. |
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| With that title, it sounds like the sort of hardcore skin-flick which gathers dust and sweaty fingerprints on a shelf in Amsterdam. |
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| The second CD contains performances of cantorial music and Yiddish songs by hazzanim who were active in Amsterdam. |
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| About 10,000 England fans travelled to the World Cup warm-up match in Amsterdam, including about 2,000 ticketless supporters. |
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| While you could just write random addresses in Amsterdam we have a foolproof system in place. |
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| I have a dotted-line report to the finance function in Amsterdam, but we are governed and managed by the regional office. |
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| Level at the top of their group with Ajax and Valencia, there will be huge pressure on them in Amsterdam. |
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| It's a grey, cold day here in Amsterdam and I have to go and raid the fridge to find something for our belated Saturday brunch. |
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| Amsterdam impresarios and regional orchestras frequently promote the genre. |
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| The docu, filmed by videographer Robin Piree, premieres on 17 October in Amsterdam. |
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| Major financial and commercial centres such as London and Amsterdam also did well out of long-distance trades. |
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| But then potheads in Amsterdam start a protest that spreads throughout Europe, extinguishing exports. |
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| Unlike the Environmental Police Force in Amsterdam, their remit doesn't extend to crimes such as flyposting, fly-tipping and graffiti. |
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| If you're planning a short weekend break to Amsterdam, there are a lot of places you shouldn't miss. |
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| I had acquainted myself with marijuana and hash a long time before I moved to Amsterdam. |
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| Much of the old town is 17th century, and surprisingly intact and unsullied by suburbs, despite being only 15 miles from Amsterdam. |
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| Based in Amsterdam, The Fortuna Consort is an early music group exploring renaissance consort music in the form of recorder trio and lute. |
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| She graduated from high school in 1986 and then attended the University of Amsterdam. |
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| Another 40,000 marched in San Francisco, with thousands more demonstrating in Amsterdam, Berlin and other European cities. |
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| Call me old-fashioned, but when I go into a coffee shop in Amsterdam, I expect to be offered a cup of tea and a scone. |
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| In comparison, a house along a canal in Amsterdam cost 10,000 florins in those days. |
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| I ended up in a squat in Amsterdam and started going to a Hare Krishna temple. |
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| James spent the next two days floating in and out of oblivion, completely unaware of his arrival in Amsterdam. |
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| I was in Amsterdam recently, and went down to play poker at the Holland Casino on Leidseplein. |
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| In Amsterdam, public notaries regularly recorded women's statements about the insulting maltreatment of their husbands. |
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| He was arrested by the German occupying forces in Amsterdam in 1942 and taken to the concentration camp in Auschwitz. |
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| Black Amsterdam is a beautiful pear-shaped stone with 145 facets which is said to be extraordinarily black and hence the name. |
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| The Surinamers constitute almost one-third of the total number of non-Western immigrants in Amsterdam and The Hague. |
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| The police in Amsterdam were able to round up six of his alleged accomplices after the crime, and are seeking more. |
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| They will fly economy class to Amsterdam, where they will be upgraded to business class for the Bangkok leg of the journey. |
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| Abel Herzberg was the son of a broker of uncut diamonds and grew up in Amsterdam. |
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| About a month ago I flew into Amsterdam with them, on this tiny private plane. |
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| The artist worked for the Amsterdam burgomasters, John Maurice of Nassau, and the Elector of Brandenburg. |
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| He began a series of new drawings and studies for work to be completed in Amsterdam. |
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| Amsterdam is famous, indeed infamous, for its relaxed laws on certain narcotic substances. |
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| Her bodyguards, she said, have deposited her on many week nights on a naval base in Amsterdam, or hustled her off to sleep in different hotels. |
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| Meanwhile, NBG is pulling back from Western Europe by closing uncompetitive branches in Frankfurt, Paris, and Amsterdam. |
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| A cat burglar in Amsterdam got himself in a tight spot after running away from police across house roofs. |
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| He was discontent with his life in Amsterdam, yet refused to venture abroad. |
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| Though the internet has partly bridged the tyranny of distance, we're still a really long way from Tokyo, Amsterdam, or London. |
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| He laundered his money through bureaux de change and in casinos in Amsterdam. |
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| The monumentality of Amsterdam exists only in the heads of its inhabitants, not on the streets. |
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| Well, my plans to be good today fell to pieces when Emilie brought caramel waffles back from Amsterdam. |
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| When he was eighteen years old, he was awarded his Abitur after attending a six-form High School in Amsterdam. |
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| The trip begins by coach from local pick-up points to Harwich for the ferry crossing to the Hook of Holland and the onward journey to Amsterdam. |
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| By 1624, some thirty families, Protestant Walloons, established the first European settlement, New Amsterdam. |
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| It was not until the next night in a quaint old bar in Amsterdam that the wonder of the whole trip hit me. |
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| Schipol airport in Amsterdam and Paris Charles de Gaulle have both seen recent expansion programmes. |
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| Chagall became a famous artist in Paris, and my father became a famous ragman in Amsterdam, New York. |
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| Tirkey is only the second Adivasi player to lead the Indian hockey team, after Jaipal Singh led India in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. |
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| John Brown reports that the fireball appeared about 120 km west-north-west from Amsterdam. |
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| In fact, in Old Church of Amsterdam, the artist seems to work rather insistently against the efforts of the whitewasher. |
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| While they may seem like newish arrivals, they are now in their 40s and began working together in 1986 after studying at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. |
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| Juxtaposing the unapologetically new with the well-preserved old can strengthen the urban fabric, he posits, citing Amsterdam and London as examples. |
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| With a lot of fanfare and plenty of media exposure, his Jet2 airline took to the skies just over a week ago for its inaugural destination of Amsterdam. |
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| The Dutch bought contraband cacao from Caracas producers, and shipped it to Amsterdam, which soon became the main supplier of cacao to Europe, including Spain itself. |
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| The newlyweds celebrated their love by honeymooning in Amsterdam, Holland. |
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| At the airport I ran into a Putt-Putter called Rich Gilooly, on his way home to Amsterdam, taking his beloved putter as carry-on luggage in a black canvas holster. |
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| There are whole areas of Amsterdam devoted purely to impurity. |
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| Now try transposing seven work mates from London to Amsterdam overnight. |
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| Even the pitch, relaid by the same company who did the Amsterdam Arena before Rangers' 3-1 win against Ajax, was the rich emerald hue of years gone by. |
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| He obtained a new passport from the British consul general's office in Amsterdam by saying he had got drunk and accidentally put his old one in the washing machine. |
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| Our most unusual New Year's Eve was in those heady, pre-parenting days when my husband whisked me off to Amsterdam for what Bridget Jones would call a mini-break. |
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| Neville said Data Display had other major contracts with the Paris metro, the London underground, and rail systems in Lisbon, Stockholm and Amsterdam. |
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| The infrastructure protecting low-lying Amsterdam and Rotterdam are built to withstand 10,000-year storms. |
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| This Dutch composer seems to have spent most of his career in Amsterdam, where he quickly attained local popularity as a pianist, flutist, and music teacher. |
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| As early as the 1960s, clubs like Ajax Amsterdam began developing new approaches to the game. |
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| If you start to burn out on Amsterdam, hop a train to Haarlem. |
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| Outposts budded in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Geneva, and various other burgs, including, yes, Amsterdam. |
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| He was in awe of Tel Aviv, a gay-friendly city with Pride parades rivaling those in Berlin and Amsterdam. |
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| But compared to its peers, like Rotterdam or Amsterdam, New York City is not as well prepared. |
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| Successful carriers head to cities like Vienna or Amsterdam to exchange fake bills for genuine euros or to secure loans they have no intention of repaying. |
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| But as he worked on the epidemic locally in Amsterdam and Western Europe, Lange also was thinking globally. |
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| In 1996 we did London, Paris, Brussels, Cologne and Amsterdam. |
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| For my 40th birthday, I planned a family weekend in New York, complete with a Mary Poppins matinee at the New Amsterdam Theater. |
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| During World War I the family moved to Amsterdam to live with relatives. |
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| The Franks moved to Amsterdam, which they knew to be a refuge, as well as a place where otto had connections. |
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| The 80s chart-topper was flying from Amsterdam to Edinburgh when baggage handlers put one of his cases on a flight to Liverpool's John Lennon Airport. |
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| John Marshall was on the run from York Police when he telephoned his mother from a public call box in Amsterdam and told her he had nothing to lose. |
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| Since launching in 2008, the rubber duck project has traveled to Osaka, Sydney, Sao Paolo, and Amsterdam. |
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| He was in Amsterdam and he was suffering from blue balls at a time when he was on leave and had a little money in his pocket. |
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| In the coat of arms of Amsterdam, the field of the escutcheon is red. |
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| Working among the Calvinist peasantry in Staphorst, a village near Amsterdam, Sluyters adopted a sombre Expressionist style to depict the puritanical austerity of their lives. |
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| The boeing jetliner had 295 people on board and was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. |
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| The defending World Bowl champions picked up their first win of the campaign in Amsterdam last weekend but can afford no slip-ups against their fellow strugglers. |
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| Several subsequent British reprints as well as editions by Le Clerc and Imbault in Paris and Roger in Amsterdam attest to their popularity in the 18th century. |
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| On his return to Amsterdam by c. 1562, he became one of the earliest artists to introduce to the Netherlands the rich colours and painterly brushwork of Venetian painting. |
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| Dutch tradesmen and expert woodcutters were transported from Amsterdam. |
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| Some items have survived in zoological institutes and natural history museums in Saint Petersburg, Stockholm, and Amsterdam, as well as in the British Museum in London. |
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| Home of the tulip, Amsterdam is a city of bodacious flowers. |
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| The Jeweler's Monologue The Counselor goes to a jeweler in Amsterdam to buy an engagement ring. |
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| No one is demanding that English-speaking Americans be forced to learn Navajo, any more than anyone is demanding that the Dutch of Amsterdam learn Frisian. |
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| It makes no more sense to brand Scotland hopeless on the evidence of Amsterdam than it does to herald them world-beaters on the strength of what happened in Glasgow. |
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| In the century after 1541, however, the city's economy and population declined dramatically, while rival Amsterdam experienced massive growth. |
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| Antwerp's banking was controlled for a generation by Genoa, and Amsterdam became the new trading centre. |
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| Shortly thereafter, Smyth and members of the Gainsborough group moved on to Amsterdam. |
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| In 1592 Cornelis de Houtman was sent by Amsterdam merchants to Lisbon to discover as much information on the Spice Islands as he could. |
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| At the same time he returned to Amsterdam, Jan Huygen van Linschoten returned from India. |
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| At Bawean one of the ships, the Amsterdam was purposely set on fire, and the crew divided over the other three ships. |
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| New Amsterdam was founded at the mouth of the Hudson River, and would later become known as New York City. |
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| New Amsterdam and the colony of New Netherland were renamed New York, after the Duke of York. |
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| The first known reappearance of the Island of California on a map dates to 1622 in a map by Michiel Colijn of Amsterdam. |
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| While awaiting orders and supplies in Amsterdam, he heard rumors of a northwest route to the Pacific through North America. |
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| Hudson departed Amsterdam on 4 April in command of the Dutch ship Halve Maen. |
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| He managed to pass the log to the Dutch ambassador to England, who sent it, along with his report, to Amsterdam. |
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| My aunt considered all of Europe to be heathendom, and refused to visit us in Amsterdam on religious grounds. |
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| During the 17th century and most of the 18th century, Amsterdam had been the most influential and powerful financial centre of the world. |
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| In 1602 the VOC established an exchange in Amsterdam where VOC stock and bonds could be traded in a secondary market. |
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| Discontent in New Amsterdam led locals to dispatch Adriaen van der Donck back to the United Provinces to seek redress. |
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| But let no idle Donatist of Amsterdam dream hence of an Utopical perfection. |
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| As expected, the government at New Amsterdam took no other action than to protest. |
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| All of these objects eventually ended up in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, after some had initially been held in The Hague. |
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| Two vessels sailed from Amsterdam on 10 May 1596, under the command of van Heemskerck and Jan Rijp. |
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| His body was returned to Amsterdam to be buried with full honours in the old Church. |
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| He succeeded to get back to Hoorn and in 1589, he married Stephania van der Made in Amsterdam in a civil ceremony before the schepenen. |
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| Isaac and Maria married shortly before the Spanish siege of Antwerp in 1585 after which they fled to settle in Amsterdam. |
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| Le Maire was aboard the ship Amsterdam on this journey home, but died en route. |
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| In August 1637 he was back in Amsterdam, and the following year he signed on for another ten years and took his wife with him to Batavia. |
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| It is widely believed that the map was produced in Batavia, however, it has also been argued that the map was produced in Amsterdam. |
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| Several cities had distinct styles and specialities by subject, but Amsterdam was the largest artistic centre, because of its great wealth. |
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| Painters from Leiden, The Hague, and Amsterdam particularly excelled in the genre. |
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| There was a market in Amsterdam for such paintings, and Post continued to produce Brazilian scenes for years after his return to the Netherlands. |
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| Mar Thoma Church was attending meetings of World Council of Churches from its first meeting in 1948 at Amsterdam. |
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| Another Baring advantage was a close relationship with Hope and Company of Amsterdam. |
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| Both the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the museum Het Prinsenhof in Delft claim to have the original book chest in their collection. |
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| They established a theological seminary at Amsterdam where Grotius came to teach alongside Episcopius, Limborch, Curcellaeus, and Le Clerc. |
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| This perception, however, does no justice to the regents of the city of Amsterdam. |
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| Soon thereafter, a lively trade in various derivatives, among which options and repos, emerged on the Amsterdam market. |
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| Amsterdam is a 1998 novel by British writer Ian McEwan, for which he was awarded the 1998 Booker Prize. |
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| Amsterdam is the story of a euthanasia pact between two friends, a composer and a newspaper editor, whose relationship spins into disaster. |
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| There are connections to the rest of the world via London Heathrow Airport, Brussels Airport and Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. |
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| The Hague is the seat of government of the Netherlands, whereas Amsterdam is the capital. |
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| For decades, no stadtholder who would counterbalance the power of the Amsterdam regents had been appointed. |
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| Almost a year since, R. B. and B. F. took that city, in the way from Frederickstadt to Amsterdam, and gave them a visit. |
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| Brussels lies at the intersection of the transmanche route via Lille to London and there will be further links to Paris, Amsterdam and Cologne. |
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| The disagreement centered on the validity of Smyth's se-baptism and differing views on joining the Waterlander Mennonite church in Amsterdam. |
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| We admitted for treatment a fan from Amsterdam with a knife wound,'' said an official at the Zagreb emergency hospital. |
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| Backbase is a fast-growing fintech software company founded in 2003 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, by CEO Jouk Pleiter. |
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| He visited Benin City and compared the city's sophistication to the best of Amsterdam. |
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| Nihot, which was founded in 1945 and is based in Amsterdam, is a global leader in air separation technologies, BHS officials said. |
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| The service is scheduled to launch on 24 June 2011 and will be the first non-stop service between Amsterdam and Orlando Sanford. |
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| Amsterdam Tigers on Saturday having earned a 2-2 tie with Herning Blue Fox of Denmark in their opening match. |
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| Mitchell, who represented the Neiuw Amsterdam, triumphed over 14 other guest competitors to take home the mirrorball trophy. |
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| The Commission Mixte of the Repertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale has met once since its last meeting in Amsterdam. |
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| The first time they played in Amsterdam, the Dutch police were close to arresting the soundman due to the sound system reaching illegal volumes. |
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| Dear Miriam MY boyfriend will be best man at his brother's wedding next month and he's organising a stag weekend in Amsterdam. |
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| That s why ING is proud to be a partner of Startup Delta and the Amsterdam Capital Week. |
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| It was being brought into Britain from Amsterdam by Russell Tricker, a Britishborn businessman based in the Dutch capital. |
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| The previous owner, Kevin Alderman or better known as alter ego, Stroker Serpentine, put the Amsterdam sim on sale two months ago. |
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| The fear was not unfounded, because in practice it meant Amsterdam stipulated what happened. |
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| With both countries united, commercial, military, and political power shifted from Amsterdam to London. |
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| For this William needed funding by the city of Amsterdam, then the world's main financial centre. |
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| On 26 September the powerful city council of Amsterdam decided to officially support the invasion. |
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| The Whig government was responsible for the creation of the Bank of England following the example of the Bank of Amsterdam. |
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| With the surrender of Fort Amsterdam in 1664, England gained control of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, renaming it New York. |
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| As a student in 1954, Penrose was attending a conference in Amsterdam when by chance he came across an exhibition of Escher's work. |
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| Historians trace the earliest church labeled Baptist back to 1609 in Amsterdam, with English Separatist John Smyth as its pastor. |
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| Historians trace the earliest Baptist church back to 1609 in Amsterdam, with John Smyth as its pastor. |
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| Many northern cities of the Holy Roman Empire became hanseatic cities, including Amsterdam, Cologne, Bremen, Hanover and Berlin. |
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| Kneller studied in Leiden, but became a pupil of Ferdinand Bol and Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn in Amsterdam. |
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| The 1668 edition of his works was printed in Amsterdam because he could not obtain the censor's licence for its publication in England. |
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| In addition to London, since 1997 McQueen has a home in Amsterdam, with his Dutch wife, cultural critic Bianca Stigter, and their two children. |
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| By the first decades of the 18th century, Amsterdam had become the world's leading commercial and financial centre for more than a century. |
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| By the early 1800s, London officially replaced Amsterdam as the world's leading financial centre. |
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| This, in turn, made possible the Amsterdam stock market and concomitant dominance of world trade. |
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| Notably, the role given to the WEU in the Amsterdam Treaty, was removed by the Nice Treaty. |
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| Both chambers are in The Hague which is the seat of parliament but not the official capital of the Netherlands, which is Amsterdam. |
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| The colony of New Amsterdam was centered at the site which would eventually become Lower Manhattan. |
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| The Dutch West India Company would eventually attempt to ease tensions between Stuyvesant and residents of New Amsterdam. |
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| The New York Amsterdam News, published in Harlem, is a prominent African American newspaper. |
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| It has secondary listings on Euronext Amsterdam and the New York Stock Exchange. |
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| In 2003, it was estimated that in Amsterdam, one woman in 35 was working as a prostitute, compared to one in 300 in London. |
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| Amsterdam is the country's capital, while The Hague holds the Dutch seat of parliament and government. |
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| Amsterdam grew and in the 15th century became the primary trading port in Europe for grain from the Baltic region. |
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| Amsterdam distributed grain to the major cities of Belgium, Northern France and England. |
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| Amsterdam was Europe's most important point for the shipment of goods and was the leading Financial centre of the western world. |
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| The traditional Dutch architecture is especially valuated in Amsterdam, Delft and Leiden, with 17 and 18th century buildings along the canals. |
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| In 2015, Amsterdam and Rotterdam were, respectively, at the 4th and the 5th position on the Arcadis Sustainable Cities Index. |
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| Headquartered in Amsterdam, Endemol has around 90 companies in over 30 countries. |
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| During the 1700s the Amsterdam stock exchange had close links with the London stock exchange, and the two would often list each other's stocks. |
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| To clear the trades, time was required for the physical stock certificate or cash to move from Amsterdam to London and back. |
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| On 28 May 1928, the FIFA Congress in Amsterdam decided to stage a world championship itself. |
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| During the middle ages, herring prompted the founding of Great Yarmouth, Amsterdam, and Copenhagen. |
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| According to Vermont he found misconduct, and continued to find it, from Amsterdam to the International office. |
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| In 2000, the stock exchanges of Paris, Amsterdam and Bruxelles merged into Euronext. |
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| By Eurostar's estimates a train would then take 3 hours 30 minutes from London to Amsterdam. |
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| In October 2016, Eurostar published details about its forthcoming Amsterdam service. |
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| Passengers for London from Amsterdam and Rotterdam will undertake all security checks before boarding and will not need to get off in Brussels. |
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| From Amsterdam Centraal to London St Pancras, trains will take 4hrs 9mins to include the 28 minutes stop at Brussels. |
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| Initially the only calling points would be Rotterdam on the way to Amsterdam, and Cologne on the way to Frankfurt. |
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| Amsterdam and Cologne would be under four hours from London, Frankfurt around five hours. |
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| Danzig, a trading partner of Amsterdam, attempted to forestall the decision. |
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| Duisburg is the home of Europe's largest inland port and functions as a hub to the sea ports of Rotterdam, Antwerp and Amsterdam. |
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| It was ranked 2nd in the category of business friendliness, behind Amsterdam. |
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| The disaster marked the rise of Amsterdam on the southwestern end of the bay, since seagoing traffic of the Baltic trade could now visit. |
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| In some rural Hollandic areas more authentic Hollandic dialects are still being used, especially north of Amsterdam. |
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| There is a healthy competition with Amsterdam, which is often viewed as the cultural capital of the Netherlands. |
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| Amsterdam has a population of 851,373 within the city proper, 1,351,587 in the urban area, and 2,410,960 in the Amsterdam metropolitan area. |
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| The Amsterdam seaport to this day remains the second in the country, and the fifth largest seaport in Europe. |
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| Famous Amsterdam residents include the diarist Anne Frank, artists Rembrandt van Rijn and Vincent van Gogh, and philosopher Baruch Spinoza. |
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| The Amsterdam Stock Exchange, the oldest stock exchange in the world, is located in the city center. |
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| Amsterdam is much younger than Dutch cities such as Nijmegen, Rotterdam, and Utrecht. |
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| From the 14th century on, Amsterdam flourished, largely from trade with the Hanseatic League. |
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| The influx of Flemish printers and the city's intellectual tolerance made Amsterdam a centre for the European free press. |
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| The Bank of Amsterdam started operations in 1609, acting as a full service bank for Dutch merchant bankers and as a reserve bank. |
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| The wars of the Dutch Republic with England and France took their toll on Amsterdam. |
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| In 1906, Joseph Conrad gave a brief description of Amsterdam as seen from the seaside, in The Mirror of the Sea. |
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| Even though the Netherlands remained neutral in this war, Amsterdam suffered a food shortage, and heating fuel became scarce. |
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| As society was changing, A metro started operating in 1977 between the new suburb of Bijlmer and the centre of Amsterdam. |
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| Meanwhile, large private organisations, such as Stadsherstel Amsterdam, were founded with the aim of restoring the entire city centre. |
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| This urban renewal and expansion of the traditional centre of the city is part of the Structural Vision Amsterdam 2040 initiative. |
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| Amsterdam is located in the western Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. |
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| Amsterdam is intensely urbanised, as is the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area surrounding the city. |
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| Between 1970 and 1980, Amsterdam experienced its sharpest population decline ever, and by 1985 the city had only 675,570 residents. |
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| In the 1960s guest workers from Turkey, Morocco, Italy and Spain emigrated to Amsterdam. |
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| After the independence of Suriname in 1975, a large wave of Surinamese settled in Amsterdam, mostly in the Bijlmer area. |
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| The Japanese School of Amsterdam serves elementary and junior high school students. |
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| The first Ashkenazi who arrived in Amsterdam were refugees from the Chmielnicki Uprising in Poland and the Thirty Years' War. |
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| In recent times, religious demographics in Amsterdam have been changed by immigration from former colonies. |
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| Amsterdam experienced an influx of religions and cultures after the Second World War. |
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| With 180 different nationalities, Amsterdam is home to one of the widest varieties of nationalities of any city in the world. |
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| Amsterdam fans out south from the Amsterdam Centraal railway station and Damrak, the main street off the station. |
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| The medieval and colonial age canals of Amsterdam, known as Grachten, embraces the heart of the city where homes have interesting gables. |
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| The leading architects of this style in Amsterdam were Jacob van Campen, Philips Vingboons and Daniel Stalpaert. |
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| A famous building in baroque style in Amsterdam is the Royal Palace on Dam Square. |
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| Throughout the 18th century, Amsterdam was heavily influenced by French culture. |
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| Since Amsterdam expanded rapidly during this period, new buildings adjacent to the city centre were also built in this style. |
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| The last style that was popular in Amsterdam before the modern era was Art Deco. |
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| Amsterdam had its own version of the style, which was called the Amsterdamse School. |
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| Amsterdam is currently one of the best European cities in which to locate an international business. |
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| The first is the area surrounding Amsterdam Sloterdijk railway station, where several newspapers like De Telegraaf have their offices. |
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| The tallest building in Amsterdam, the Rembrandt Tower, is situated there, as is the headquarters of Philips. |
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| Amsterdam has the biggest cruise port in the Netherlands with more than 150 cruise ships every year. |
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| Shops in Amsterdam range from large high end department stores such as De Bijenkorf founded in 1870 to small specialty shops. |
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| Negen Straatjes are nine narrow streets within the Grachtengordel, the concentric canal system of Amsterdam. |
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| Modelling agencies Elite Models, Touche models and Tony Jones have opened branches in Amsterdam. |
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| Fashion models like Yfke Sturm, Doutzen Kroes and Kim Noorda started their careers in Amsterdam. |
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| The southwestern border of the Museum Square is the Van Baerlestraat, which is a major thoroughfare in this part of Amsterdam. |
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| The square itself is the most prominent site in Amsterdam for festivals and outdoor concerts, especially in the summer. |
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| Plans were made in 2008 to remodel the square again, because many inhabitants of Amsterdam are not happy with its current appearance. |
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| The artist most associated with Amsterdam is Rembrandt, whose work, and the work of his pupils, is displayed in the Rijksmuseum. |
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| Van Gogh lived in Amsterdam for a short while and there is a museum dedicated to his work. |
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| The museum is housed in one of the few modern buildings in this area of Amsterdam. |
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| Jazz has a strong following in Amsterdam, with the Bimhuis being the premier venue. |
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| Armin van Buuren and Tiesto, some of the world's leading Trance DJ's hail from the Netherlands and perform frequently in Amsterdam. |
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| The Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam at the Leidseplein is the home base of Toneelgroep Amsterdam. |
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| Also a new theatre has moved into Amsterdam scene in 2014, joining other established venues. |
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| Since Amsterdam is a multicultural city, a lot of different ethnic restaurants can be found. |
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| Amsterdam Gay Pride is a yearly local LGBT parade of boats in Amsterdam's canals, held on the first Saturday in August. |
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| The basketball team MyGuide Amsterdam competes in the Dutch premier division and play their games in the Sporthallen Zuid. |
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| Since 1999 the city of Amsterdam honours the best sportsmen and women at the Amsterdam Sports Awards. |
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| The city of Amsterdam is a municipality under the Dutch Municipalities Act. |
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| The fifteenth, Westpoort, covers the harbour of Amsterdam and had very few residents. |
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| Colloquially, some areas within the municipality, such as the town of Durgerdam, may not be considered part of Amsterdam. |
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| The city region is similar to Greater Amsterdam but includes the municipalities of Zaanstad and Wormerland. |
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| It includes the municipalities of Zaanstad, Wormerland, Oostzaan, Diemen and Amstelveen only, as well as the municipality of Amsterdam. |
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| Amsterdam is part of the conglomerate metropolitan area Randstad, with a total population of 6,659,300 inhabitants. |
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| In 1489, out of gratitude for services and loans, Maximilian I awarded Amsterdam the right to adorn its coat of arms with the king's crown. |
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| Besides the A1, A2, A4 and A8, several freeways, such as the A7 and A6, carry traffic mainly bound for Amsterdam. |
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| The A10 ringroad surrounding the city connects Amsterdam with the Dutch national network of freeways. |
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| In 2013, there were about 1,200,000 bicycles in Amsterdam outnumbering the amount of citizens in the city. |
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| The biggest Montessori high school in Amsterdam is the Montessori Lyceum Amsterdam. |
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| Most secondary schools in Amsterdam offer a variety of different levels of education in the same school. |
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| In 2012, the music video of Far East Movement, 'Live My Life', was filmed in various parts of Amsterdam. |
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| Squat properties are common throughout Amsterdam, due to property law strongly favouring tenants. |
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