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	Amersfoort travel guide - Wikitravel
		Amersfoort [1] is an originally mediaeval city to the east of Amsterdam and Utrecht.
		Amersfoort is located in the province of Utrecht in the Netherlands, bordering on the province of Gelderland.
		Amersfoort's mediaeval industries were cloth and beer: in the 18th century it prospered due to the locally-grown tobacco.
	wikitravel.org /en/Amersfoort (1464 words)

	Amersfoort - Wikipedia
		Amersfoort werd een belangrijk knooppunt en is dat tot op heden gebleven.
		Amersfoort heeft geen universiteit maar verder wel vrijwel alles.
		Het spoorwegemplacement van het spoorwegknooppunt Amersfoort is een van de grootste in Nederland, oorspronkelijk bestaand uit reizigersstation, rangeerterrein en hoofdwerkplaats.
	nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amersfoort (1576 words)

	Amersfoort - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Amersfoort, city in the central Netherlands, in Utrecht Province, on the Eem River near Utrecht.
		He was born in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, on March 7, 1872, and originally named Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan.
		Barneveldt, Jan van Olden (1547-1619), Dutch statesman, born in Amersfoort, and educated as a lawyer.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Amersfoort.html (72 words)

	Joods leven in Amersfoort
		Het jodendom draagt sociale zorg hoog in het vaandel.
		Maar arm of rijk; De joodse Amersfoorters liggen naast elkaar in dezelfde doodskleren en dezelfde eenvoudige houten kist in eeuwige rust op de Bloemendalse Poort en na 1873 achter het karakteristieke kleine huisje aan de Soesterweg dat nu vanaf het voorjaar tot in de herfst een grote bloemenweelde toont.
		Amersfoort was vanaf 1813 hoofdsynagoge en zou dit ruim honderd jaar blijven tot 24 juni 1917, waarna Utrecht deze functie overnam.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Oracle/9784/amersfoort.html (6990 words)

	IMES Staff - Hans van Amersfoort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Hans van Amersfoort (1937) is professor emeritus of Cultural Geography and Population Geography at the University of Amsterdam.
		Amersfoort, H. van, ‘The waxing and waning of a diaspora.
		Amersfoort, H. van, 'The ostrich factor in Dutch demography', in: A. Kuijsten, H. de Gans and H. de Feijter (eds), The joy of demography...
	www2.fmg.uva.nl /imes/AMERSFOORT.HTM (926 words)

	Amersfoort Netherlands - Amersfoort, a Medieval City
		This part of Amersfoort used to be the artisan and merchant quarter and in the old days the inland harbour and thus an important place, because in those days most transport was by water.
		Amersfoort’s city wall was demolished in the 15th century, the bricks were used to build new houses, which follow the contours of the old wall.
		In den Grooten Slock is the oldest pub in Amersfoort.
	www.globosapiens.net /travel-information/Amersfoort-887.html (654 words)

	Amersfoort - Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The go-ahead little settlement of Amersfoort originally founded as a "kerkplaats" by the Reverend Lion Cachet (whose name betrays his Huguenot extraction), is dependant for its prosperity on the wool trade, which is carried on in a brisk and bustling fashion.
		Amersfoort was first proclaimed a township by the Republican Government, and the Urban Board was established in 1897, which in 1904 was constituted a municipality, with Council of five members, Mr Albert Kuit being elected chairman.
		Amersfoort has a Government school and an independent school, a Dutch Reformed Church occupying the centre of the won square (after the recognised traditions of the Dutch settlers); and a stream mill.
	www.amersfoort.org.za /background.asp (3698 words)

	Amersfoort, Netherlands News - Topix
		Amersfoort /Lausanne, Golden Tulip Hospitality is proud to announce the opening of its 5th hotel in Oman: The Golden Tulip Resort Dibba.
		Amersfoort /Lausanne, Golden Tulip is proud to announce its first hotel in China; the Golden Tulip Shanghai Riverside.
		Amersfoort / Lausanne Golden Tulip Hospitality is proud to announce the signing of a franchise agreement for the Tulip Inn Sunny Hill in Cluj Napoca, Romania.
	www.topix.net /nl/amersfoort (755 words)

	Jewish Historical Museum \| Amersfoort
		Benjamin Cohen, an heir of a leading dynasty of Amersfoort tobacco merchants, was a fervent Dutch patriot and twice during riots in 1787 offered his house on the Zuidsingel as a refuge to Stadtholder Willem V and his wife.
		From 1814 to 1917 Amersfoort was the seat of the Chief Rabbinate of the province of Utrecht.
		Between August, 1942 and April, 1943 the Jews of Amersfoort were deported to the concentration camp at Westerbork in the north of the Netherlands.
	www.jhm.nl /netherlands.aspx?ID=6 (600 words)

	History of the city Amersfoort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Amersfoort is called 'Keistad' (lit.:Rocktown or Bouldercity), a name we 'earned' in the 17th century, not because we invented RockandRoll as a dance, but because of a wager a crazy country squire ('Jonkheer') named Everard Meyster because he wanted to celibrate his new house.
		He made a bet with some friends that he could talk the people of Amersfoort into dragging a large boulder, a stone that was deposited on Soester Moor by a glacier, weighting 9 tons, to the city.
		The occasion for building the tower was the legendof a wooden figurine of the Holy Mary, that in the early Middle Ages was thrown into one of the canals of Amersfoort.
	home.planet.nl /~muije000/Amersfoort/index.htm (1207 words)

	Legendes
		In 1661 Everard Meijster convinced the Amersfoort natives to pull the 'Kei' into the city, and place it on a pedestal on the Varkensmarket.
		Since then the Amersfoort natives are known as 'Keien trekkers', which was not something they appreciated.
		That night, another Amersfoort woman, dreamt about the Maria statue, and when she went to get water from the canal, she found it.
	www.home.zonnet.nl /amersfoort/engels/enlegends.html (261 words)

	Amersfoort travel guide
		Amersfoort has a nice historic centre, where the network of streets and canals is much like it was in the Middle Ages.
		Amersfoort is actually one of the few Dutch cities that has nice squares.
		These are best enjoyed during the Amersfoort Jazz festival when there are bands playing in all of the medieval centre.
	www.world66.com /europe/netherlands/amersfoort (296 words)

	19 Hotels in Amersfoort » Hotels.nl.
		You can explore the surroundings by bike car or public transportation, after a relaxing walk in the woods you can have a drink or something to eat in o...
		Situated on the outskirts of Amersfoort, in wooded surroundings, we are only a short distance from the historic city centre.
		The Golden Tulip Berghotel is located very centrally in the Netherlands: in the residential South of Amersfoort and the beautiful hilly area called the Utrechtse Heuvelrug.
	www.hotels.nl /amersfoort (803 words)

	Amersfoort (Holland)
		The camp of Amersfoort was located along the highway Utrecht - Amersfoort, in the province of Utrecht.
		Amersfoort was with Vught and Westerbork one of the three concentration camps operated by the Nazis in Holland.
		As a Polizeiliches Durchgangslager, concentration camp Amersfoort became an establishment to imprison and torture prominent Dutch and Belgian citizens.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/Amersfoort.html (319 words)

	Amersfoort Police Camp (Holland) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		For the German administration, Amersfoort was a Police Camp (Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort).
		In the early stages of Nazi measures against the Jewish people camp Amersfoort also was used to confine and then deport the Jews of Amersfoort.
		By 22 April 1943 most of the Jewish population in camp Amersfoort was transferred to concentration camp Vught, another of the Nazi camps in the Netherlands.
	www.jewishgen.org /ForgottenCamps/Camps/AmersEng.html (319 words)

	Polizeiliches Durchgangslager - Concentration Camp Amersfoort
		During the second stage Camp Amersfoort began to function as a Polizeiliches Durchgangslager for the SS because more than 20,000 inmates passed through Camp Amersfoort on their way to concentration camps located in Nazi Germany.
		Kotälla was responsible for the cruel regime waged in Camp Amersfoort.
		When they arrived in Amersfoort they were paraded through town in an attempt to show the population of Amersfoort how primitive and barbaric Russians (communists!!) were, but the town people recognized the diabolic Nazi plan.
	www.cympm.com /amersfoort.html (1923 words)

	Amersfoort
		Situated in the centre of The Netherlands, Amersfoort was a geographically attractive spot on the way to the north and east of the country and, as such, became an important trading settlement.
		One entire floor of the museum concentrates on the history of Amersfoort between 1200-1815 and includes a large model of the old city centre with an explanation of how the city developed, part of the old city gallows, and silver implements.
		Once Amersfoort had managed to get over the shame of the whole history of the boulder, it was decided to make the best of a bad job.
	www.cassnet.net /nl/amerdesc.htm (1519 words)

	Kuiper's Amersfoort
		Amersfoort arose where the confluence of the Lunterse beek, de Barneveldse beek, and some smaller creeks forms the river Eem (pronounced "aim").
		The three lay priests and one Jesuit who were already in Amersfoort were not happy with this interloper, and bad reports regularly reached the Capucian prior and the apostolic vicar.
		As a result, in 1661, Amersfoorters were saddled with a useless rock, a damaged reputation, and the nickname "keietrekkers".
	www.magma.ca /~triplb/Tom-amersfoort-index.html (3204 words)

	Kamp Amersfoort of Polizeiliches Durchgangslager
		Kamp Amersfoort was in verhouding met andere concentratiekampen, een klein en provisorisch kamp dat in de periode 1941 - 1945 onder toezicht stond van de Duitse politie.
		Verwaarlozing, honger, mishandeling en moord drukten een stempel op het verblijf van meer dan 35.000 gevangenen die korte of langere tijd - in twee afzonderlijke periodes - gevangen waren in het kamp.
		Monument Kamp Amersfoort verschaft informatie en draagt zorg voor de instandhouding van de herinnering aan het beruchte Kamp Amersfoort.
	www.kampamersfoort.nl (536 words)

	Gemeente Amersfoort
		The historic inner city of Amersfoort has a Medieval pattern of streets and squares, where you will find over 380 monuments, from remarkable churches and museums to city walls and gates.
		Amersfoort is expanding to about 160,000 citizens in 2016.
		Amersfoort is versatile and exuberant, a city with a heart.
	www.amersfoort.nl /smartsite.shtml?id=51831 (417 words)

	KERKPLEIN AMERSFOORT
		Tussen Hemelvaart en Pinksteren zal er weer op verschillende plaatsen in Amersfoort gebeden worden, deze keer rond het thema Smeekbeden voor Amersfoort.
		In Amersfoort biedt de initiatiefgroep 'Pelgrimage naar een duurzame kwaliteit van leven' al drie jaar een- en tweedaagse wandeltochten aan.
		AMERSFOORT - Vanavond, vrijdag 20 april, wordt een orgel- en samenzangavond gehouden in de Christelijke Gereformeerde Ichthuskerk van Amersfoort aan de Grote Haag 154.
	www.kerkpleinamersfoort.nl (1365 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Amersfoort
		Utrecht (the capital) and Amersfoort are the chief cities.
		It largely comprises low-lying land and is drained by the Lower Rhine (Neder Rijn) River.
		Ger J. van Amersfoort to the Board of Directors.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Amersfoort (232 words)

	joHNKNee's World Famous Amersfoort Tour
		Amersfoort is a 30 minute high speed train ride southeast of Amsterdam and Schiphol Airport and a 10 minute train ride northeast of Utrecht (the oldest city in The Netherlands).
		Amersfoort is the geographic center of The Netherlands.
		Some interesting history about Nieuw Amersfoort (now known as the Flatlands in Brooklyn, New York [usa]) can be found here, here, here and here.
	www.xs4all.nl /~jcarella/amersfoort (1076 words)

	USATODAY.com - Roundup: Coria advances, Moya upset in Amersfoort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		AMERSFOORT, Netherlands (AP) — Top-seeded Guillermo Coria beat fellow Argentine Agustin Calleri 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) in the Priority Telecom Open on Friday, reaching the semifinal of a tournament for the first time in nine months.
		Massu ousted fifth-seeded Carlos Moya 7-5, 6-4, avenging a February loss in Buenos Aires, and ending the Spaniard's first appearance in Amersfoort since he was runner-up in 1997.
		Massu won the 2003 Amersfoort, and already has a title this year in Costa do Sauipe, to go along with runner-up finishes in Casablanca and Vina del Mar. He has a 26-11 record on clay this year, two more wins than Rafael Nadal (24-0).
	www.usatoday.com /sports/tennis/2006-07-21-roundup_x.htm?csp=34 (980 words)

	Sisters of Notre Dame—Legacy
		In 1850 the Bishop of Münster invited the congregation in Amersfoort to send several sisters to teach their religious spirit and way of life to the young women in Coesfeld, Germany.
		The Coesfeld sisters later discovered that Amersfoort congregation had learned their spirit and way of life from the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, the community founded by Saint Julie Billiart in 1804.
		When the Amersfoort sisters returned to their homeland in 1855, the new religious institute of the Sisters of Notre Dame in Coesfeld was a growing community with flourishing ministries in schools and parishes of the diocese of Münster.
	www.snd1.org /legacy_namur_amersfoort.html (181 words)

	Amersfoort Jazz - Rabobank amersfoort jazz festival
		Van vrijdag 11 tot en met zondag 13 mei staat Amersfoort weer in het teken van het jaarlijkse festival Rabobank Amersfoort Jazz.
		Een andere hoofdact is Jazzorchestra of the Concertgebouw met als speciale gast Trijntje Oosterhuis.
		De Amersfoort Jazz Talent Award is bedoeld als stimulans voor jong jazztalent in Nederland.
	www.keistadjazz.nl (421 words)

	Tulip Inn Amersfoort Hotel - Cheap Online Hotel Reservations
		Tulip Inn Amersfoort is located near the A-28 and A-1 highways and is surrounded by forested area.
		You leave the A28 at the turnoff for 'Amersfoort- Zuid/Maarn'.
		You leave the A28 at the turnoff for 'Amersfoort- Zuid /Maarn'.
	www.hotstays.com /Tulip-Inn-Amersfoort-Amersfoort--2-10202397.html (808 words)

	Golden Tulip Berghotel, Amersfoort :: Hotel Details :: Jake.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Amersfoort, NL 3818 EG Add to Favorite Hotels
		The Berghotel Amersfoort is situated on the top of the 'Amersfoortse Berg', one of the foothills of the 'Utrechtse Heuvelrug' (a range of hills in the Province of Utrecht).
		This characteristic and exclusive hotel combines functional efficiency with the distinctive character and luxury of a four star hotel.
	www.jake.com /detail.php?hotelId=10193516 (249 words)

	Golden Tulip Berghotel Amersfoort
		The characteristic 4 star Golden Tulip Berghotel Amersfoort is famous for over 100 years of personal hospitality, extreme good service in a home like atmosphere, where the employees are known for their kindness and living up to all demands and expectations of our guests.
		Located on the hill area "Berg" in the residential South of Amersfoort.
		The team of Golden Tulip Berghotel wishes you are warm welcome during your stay in one of our luxurious rooms, multifunctional meeting rooms or during a visit in our restaurant "De Brasserie" for a light lunch or culinary diner.
	www.goldentulipberghotelamersfoort.nl (161 words)

	Compare Amersfoort Hotels & Read-Up Guest Reviews.
		The Berghotel Amersfoort is situated on top of the Amersfoortse Berg, one of the foothills of the Utrechtse Heuvelrug.
		Tulip Inn Amersfoort is well located in central Holland, bordering the urban Randstad area and the Veluwe, famous for its natural beauty and woodlands.
		Bilderberg Hotel De Klepperman is situated in three authentic farmhouses in the rural village of Hoevelaken and is the leading hotel from Amersfoort and surroundings.
	www.amersfoorthotels.com /index.htm (382 words)

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