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    Vlooienburg or Vloonburg was a filled-in island in the Amstel river on the site of the Stopera in Amsterdam. In the seventeenth century, a lively migrant...
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    [ˈɦʌutˌxrɑxt]; Wood Canal) was a canal in Amsterdam that defined one side of Vlooienburg island. Houtgracht and the connected Leprozengracht canal were filled...
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    artificial island on the south side of the River Amstel, known as the Vlooienburg, at the fifth house along the Houtgracht canal. The Jewish quarter was...
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    Waterlooplein Square and the Zwanenburgwal Canal, on a plot of land called Vlooienburg, which was reclaimed in the early 17th century. The opera house building...
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    with a view of the river Amstel. In 1637, Rembrandt moved upriver to Vlooienburg, in a building on the previous site of the current Stopera. In May 1639...
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    Leprozengracht was a canal in Amsterdam that defined one side of the Vlooienburg island. Leprozengracht and the connected Houtgracht canal were filled...
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    form two new neighborhoods, Zwanenburg (west of the Zwanenburgwal) and Vlooienburg (east of the canal). With the arrival in Amsterdam of large numbers of...
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  • Museum Venserpolder Verzetsmuseum Victoria Hotel, Amsterdam Vliegenbos Vlooienburg Vondelpark Vondelparkbuurt Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Waag, Amsterdam...
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    through a diktat from the States of Holland. Soon many Jews settled at Vlooienburg. There were three struggling congregations which merged to Talmud Torah...
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    and because of that settled in Amsterdam. Soon many Jews settled at Vlooienburg. There were three struggling congregations. In 1638 a reconciliation...
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  • at the outskirts of the eastern side of the Centrum — the island of Vlooienburg, surrounded by the Amstel River and the canals — so they settled along...
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