Canals of Amsterdam

Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands, has more than of grachten (canals), about 90 islands and 1,500 bridges. ^[1]

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Aalsmeer

Aalsmeer is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neurone disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease in the United States, is a rare, terminal neurodegenerative disorder that results in the progressive loss of both upper and lower motor neurons that normally control voluntary muscle contraction.

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Amstel

The Amstel is a river in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.

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Amsterdam Centraal station

Amsterdam Centraal station (Station Amsterdam Centraal; abbreviation: Asd) is the largest railway station in Amsterdam, North Holland, the Netherlands.

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Anne Frank House

The Anne Frank House (Anne Frank Huis) is a writer's house and biographical museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank.

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Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

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Baruch Spinoza

Baruch (de) Spinoza (24 November 163221 February 1677), also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin.

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Bijlmermeer

The Bijlmermeer, or colloquially the Bijlmer, is one of the neighbourhoods that form the Amsterdam-Zuidoost borough (Dutch: stadsdeel) of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Brewery

A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer.

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Bridge

A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or railway) without blocking the path underneath.

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Canal

Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi).

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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit FRS (24 May 1686 – 16 September 1736) was a physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker, born in Poland to a family of German extraction.

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Dutch East India Company

The United East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, abbreviated as VOC), commonly known as the Dutch East India Company, was a chartered trading company and one of the first joint-stock companies in the world.

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Dutch Golden Age

The Dutch Golden Age (Gouden Eeuw) was a period in the history of the Netherlands which roughly lasted from 1588, when the Dutch Republic was established, to 1672, when the Rampjaar occurred.

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Dutch Republic

The United Provinces of the Netherlands, officially the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) and commonly referred to in historiography as the Dutch Republic, was a confederation that existed from 1579 until the Batavian Revolution in 1795.

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Earthworks (engineering)

Earthworks are engineering works created through the processing of parts of the earth's surface involving quantities of soil or unformed rock.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Escherichia coli

Escherichia coliWells, J. C. (2000) Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.

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Geert Mak

Geert Ludzer Mak (born 4 December 1946 in Vlaardingen) is a Dutch journalist and non-fiction writer.

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Gouden Bocht

The Gouden Bocht (English: "Golden Bend") is the most prestigious part of the Herengracht in Amsterdam, Netherlands, between Leidsestraat and Vijzelstraat. Canals of Amsterdam and Gouden Bocht are canals in Amsterdam.

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Gracht

Gracht (plural: grachten) is a Dutch word for a canal within a city.

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Grachtengordel

The Grachtengordel ("canal belt (girdle);" known in English as the Canal District) is a neighborhood in Amsterdam, Netherlands located in the Centrum district. Canals of Amsterdam and Grachtengordel are canals in Amsterdam and world Heritage Sites in the Netherlands.

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Haarlemmermeer

Haarlemmermeer is a municipality in the west of the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.

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Heinrich Schliemann

Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann (6 January 1822 – 26 December 1890) was a German businessman and an influential amateur archaeologist.

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Herengracht

The Herengracht is the second of four Amsterdam canals belonging to the canal belt and lies between the Singel and the Keizersgracht. Canals of Amsterdam and Herengracht are canals in Amsterdam.

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Het Parool

Het Parool is an Amsterdam-based daily newspaper.

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Homomonument

The Homomonument is a memorial in the centre of Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands.

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Hortus Botanicus (Amsterdam)

Hortus Botanicus is a botanical garden in the Plantage district of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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Hotel Pulitzer

Hotel Pulitzer is a five star luxury hotel in Amsterdam, located on the Prinsengracht and Keizersgracht.

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Houseboat

A houseboat is a boat that has been designed or modified to be used primarily for regular dwelling.

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IJ (Amsterdam)

The IJ (sometimes shown on old maps as Y or Ye) is a body of water, formerly a bay, in the Dutch province of North Holland.

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Immigration

Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not usual residents or where they do not possess nationality in order to settle as permanent residents.

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Isaak de Graaf

Isaak de Graaff (1668 – 5 September 1743) was a Dutch map maker.

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Island

An island or isle is a piece of subcontinental land completely surrounded by water.

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Jodenbreestraat

The Jodenbreestraat ("Jewish Broad Street") is a street in the centre of Amsterdam, which connects the Sint Antoniesluis sluice gates to the Mr.

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John Adams

John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801.

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Jordaan

The Jordaan is a neighbourhood of the city of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Lauriergracht

The Lauriergracht (literally "Laurel Canal") is one of the canals of Amsterdam, located in the Jordaan, west of the Grachtengordel. Canals of Amsterdam and Lauriergracht are canals in Amsterdam.

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Martelaarsgracht

Martelaarsgracht (Martyr's Canal) is a street and former canal in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor

Maximilian I (22 March 1459 – 12 January 1519) was King of the Romans from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death in 1519.

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Moat

A moat is a deep, broad ditch dug around a castle, fortification, building, or town, historically to provide it with a preliminary line of defence.

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Monument

A monument is a type of structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, historical, political, technical or architectural importance.

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Muntplein, Amsterdam

The Muntplein (Mint Square) is a square in the centre of Amsterdam.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal

The Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal is a street in the centre of Amsterdam.

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Nieuwmarkt

Nieuwmarkt (New Market) is a square in the centre of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Noorderkerk

The Noorderkerk (Dutch for "northern church") is a 17th-century Protestant church in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Noordermarkt

The Noordermarkt (Northern Market) is a square in the Jordaan neighborhood of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

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North Holland

North Holland (Noord-Holland) is a province of the Netherlands in the northwestern part of the country.

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Oudezijds Voorburgwal

The Oudezijds Voorburgwal, often abbreviated to OZ Voorburgwal, is a street and canal in De Wallen in the center of Amsterdam. Canals of Amsterdam and Oudezijds Voorburgwal are canals in Amsterdam.

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Peter the Great

Peter I (–), was Tsar of all Russia from 1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia, known as Peter the Great, from 1721 until his death in 1725.

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Polder

A polder is a low-lying tract of land that forms an artificial hydrological entity, enclosed by embankments known as dikes.

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Prinsengrachtconcert

The Prinsengrachtconcert is an annual open-air classical music concert held annually in August since 1981.

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Regenten

The regenten (Dutch plural for regent) were the rulers of the Dutch Republic from the 16th through the 18th century, the leaders of the Dutch cities or the heads of organisations (e.g. "regent of an orphanage").

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Rembrandt

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman.

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Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands.

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Samuel Sarphati

Samuel Sarphati (31 January 1813 – 23 June 1866) was a Dutch physician and Amsterdam city planner.

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Singelgracht

The Singelgracht is a semi-circular waterway that borders the entire city centre of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Canals of Amsterdam and Singelgracht are canals in Amsterdam.

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Sint Antoniesbreestraat

The Sint Antoniesbreestraat ("St. Anthony's Broad Street") is a street in the centre of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

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Sluice

A sluice is a water channel containing a sluice gate, a type of lock to manage the water flow and water level.

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Spiegelgracht

The Spiegelgracht is a canal in the centre of Amsterdam, located near the Prinsengracht. Canals of Amsterdam and Spiegelgracht are canals in Amsterdam.

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Suffix

In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.

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Superstructure

A superstructure is an upward extension of an existing structure above a baseline.

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Trippenhuis

The Trippenhuis is a neoclassical canal mansion in the centre of Amsterdam.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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Urban area

An urban area is a human settlement with a high population density and an infrastructure of built environment.

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Urban planning

Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning in specific contexts, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks, and their accessibility.

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Venice of the North

The following is a list of settlements nicknamed Venice of the North.

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Watergraafsmeer

The Watergraafsmeer is a polder in the Netherlands, North Holland.

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Westerkerk

The Westerkerk (Western Church) is a Reformed church within Dutch Protestant Calvinism in central Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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William the Silent

William the Silent or William the Taciturn (Willem de Zwijger; 24 April 153310 July 1584), more commonly known in the Netherlands as William of Orange (Willem van Oranje), was the leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs that set off the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) and resulted in the formal independence of the United Provinces in 1648.

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World Heritage Site

World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.

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Zuiderzee

The Zuiderzee or Zuider Zee (old spelling Zuyderzee or Zuyder Zee), historically called Lake Almere and Lake Flevo, was a shallow bay of the North Sea in the northwest of the Netherlands.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canals_of_Amsterdam

Also known as Herengracht (Amsterdam), Schinkel (river).

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Canals in the Netherlands

History of Amsterdam

Lists of canals

Lists of landforms of the Netherlands

Tourist attractions in Amsterdam

Transport in Amsterdam

World Heritage Sites in the Netherlands

References