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  New Amsterdam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
New Amsterdam (Dutch: Nieuw Amsterdam) was the name of the 17th century fortified settlement in the New Netherland territory (1614-1674) of which legal possession as a North American province of the Dutch Republic was taken in 1624 through physical settlement by the Dutch West India Company under the auspices of the States General.
New Netherland was ceded permanently to the English in November 1674 in the Treaty of Westminster.
The New Amsterdam city was subsequently renamed New York, after the Duke of York (later King James II) — brother of the English King Charles II — who had been granted the lands with the kingly stroke of an armchair pen (similar to the Spanish claim to the entire western hemisphere).
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 Amsterdam (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nieuw Amsterdam, Netherlands in the municipality of Emmen, Netherlands
Amsterdam Island, one of the French Southern Territories in the Indian Ocean
Amsterdam Avenue (Manhattan), a thoroughfare on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.
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 New York - Psychology Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The southern tip of New York State—New York City, its suburbs, and the southern portion of the Hudson Valley—can be considered to form the central core of a "megalopolis," a super-city stretching from the northern suburbs of Boston to the southern suburbs of Washington and therefore occasionally called "BosWash".
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2005, New York was the third largest state in population after California and Texas, with an estimated population of 19,254,630 [1], which is a increase of 27,542, or 0.1%, from the prior year and an increase of 277,809, or 1.5%, since the year 2000.
New York City is one of the most densely populated cities in the world, allowing it to facilitate one of the most extensive subway and bus systems in the world.
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 Amsterdam Did You Mean amsterdam
Although Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands, it is neither the capital of the province in which it is located, North Holland (which is Haarlem), nor the seat of government (which is The Hague).
Amsterdam's International Institute of Social History is one of the world's largest documentary and research institutions concerning social history, and especially the history of the labour movement.
Amsterdam's Hortus Botanicus, founded in the early 1600s, is one of the oldest botanical gardens in the world, with many old and rare specimens, amongst which the coffee plant that served as the parent for the entire coffee culture in Central and South America.
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 New York City explained   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
New York City lies at the heart of the New York Metropolitan Area, which, with over 22 million people, is one of the largest urban conglomerations in the world.
Upper New York Bay is surrounded by Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the coast of New Jersey, and is connected by the Narrows between Brooklyn and Staten Island to Lower New York Bay, which is partially surrounded by Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the coast of New Jersey, and is open to the Atlantic Ocean.
New York City is served by the publicly-run City University of New York (CUNY), the largest urban university in the United States, which has a number of campuses throughout the five boroughs.
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 New Amsterdam - Psychology Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The 1625 date of the founding of New Amsterdam is now commemorated in the Official Seal of the City of New York (formerly, the year on the seal was 1664, the year of the provisional Articles of Transfer, guarantying freedom of religion, negotiated with the English by Petrus Stuyvesant and his council).
New Amsterdam granted freedom of religion to Jews; many Sephardic Jews arrived there fleeing from Portuguese reconquest of the Dutch possessions in Brazil.
New Netherland was provisionally ceded by director-general Peter Stuyvesant to the English in a surprise attack on September 24, 1664 when the two European nations were at peace.
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 Top20NewYorkCity.com - Your Top20 Guide to New York city!
New York City, officially named the City of New York, is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture.
New York City is also home to the nation's largest community of American Jews, with an estimate of 972,000 in 2002, and is the worldwide headquarters of the Hasidic Lubavitch sect and the Bobover and Satmar branches of Hasidism.
New York is a city of great museums with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's assemblage of historic art, the Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum's 20th century collection, and the American Museum of Natural History and its Hayden Planetarium focusing on the sciences.
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 City of New York - Gurupedia
New York — official name City of New York and often called New York City to distinguish it from New York state, in which it is located — is the most populous city in the United States, and the second most populous in North America, after
New York City is part of the New York metropolitan area with a population of around 20 million.
Prior to 1898, New York City consisted of Manhattan and the Bronx, which was annexed by the city from southern Westchester County in two separate actions: the western portion in 1874, and the remaining portion in 1895.
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 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
New York — officially named City of New York and often called New York City to distinguish it from New York state, in which it is located — is the most populous city in the United States, and the second most populous in North America after Mexico City.
New York City is governed pursuant to the New York City Charter, as amended.
New Yorkers are jaded and things that others would consider drawbacks to life in The City (crime, prostitution, pollution, noise...) are instead marks of pride, and the very lures that keep them from ever leaving.
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 ipedia.com: New Amsterdam Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
For alternate usages, see New Amsterdam New Amsterdam was the name of the 17th century fortified settlement in the New Netherland col...
New Amsterdam (Dutch: Nieuw Amsterdam) was the name of the 17th century fortified settlement in the New Netherland colony that would eventually become New York City.
Founded in 1625 by the Dutch West India Company, the city was located on the strategic, fortifiable southern tip of the island of Manhattan and intended to defend the company's fur trade opeartions in the Hudson Valley.
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 Amserdam FAQ - Information and Resources about amsterdam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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 new amsterdam - OneLook Dictionary Search
New Amsterdam : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
New Amsterdam : The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy [home, info]
Phrases that include new amsterdam: director-general of new amsterdam, new amsterdam theater, new amsterdam theatre
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 amsterdam - OneLook Dictionary Search
Amsterdam : The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy [home, info]
Phrases that include amsterdam: amsterdam syndrome, ajax amsterdam, amsterdam albatross, amsterdam cannabis ministry, amsterdam city netherlands, more...
Words similar to amsterdam: capital of the netherlands, dutch capital, more...
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 WordNet Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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 Computational Linguistics UvA
(Promotores: Simon Dik and Remko Scha.) Amsterdam: IFOTT, Studies in Language and Language Use 8.
Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, 1996.
Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, 2000.
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