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    The port of Amsterdam (Dutch: Haven van Amsterdam) is an inland seaport in Amsterdam in North Holland, Netherlands. It is the 14th busiest port in Europe...
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  • AFC Ajax (redirect from AFC Ajax Amsterdam)
    [ˈaːjɑks]), also known as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam, or commonly Ajax, is a Dutch professional football club based in Amsterdam, that plays in the Eredivisie, the...
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    Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam...
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    in Almere Buiten). Although Almere Haven does not have its own railway station, it is well-connected to Amsterdam and the rest of Almere by a good bus...
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    moved to Amsterdam, by then a prosperous city which was likely to have offered a bigger market for his work. His fellow Haarlem painter Allaert van Everdingen...
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    throat cancer. Edward Lodewijk Van Halen was born in Amsterdam on January 26, 1955, the son of Jan van Halen and Eugenia (née van Beers). His father was a Dutch...
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    Gijsbrecht IV of Amstel and Johanna van der Lede), was brought into the newly with city rights recognized Amsterdam and admitted as their lord and was...
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    Jacob van Loo (1614 – 26 November 1670) was a painter of the Dutch Golden Age, chiefly active in Amsterdam and, after 1660, in Paris. Van Loo is known...
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    Today, van Gogh's works are among the world's most expensive paintings ever sold. His legacy is celebrated by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which...
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    Mokum (category Culture in Amsterdam)
    Hague: BZZTôH. p. 66. ISBN 90-6291-756-9. "700-jarig bestaan van Amsterdam 1275–1975", Amsterdam City Archives. Retrieved 2020-02-11. "Ramses '97", Discogs...
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    authorities in Amsterdam for unknown reasons. Van Twiller was born in Nijkerk, the son of Ryckaert and Maria van Rensselaer van Twiller. Kiliaen van Rensselaer...
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    skyscraper in the city, and the Leeuwenburg campus of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. The station was built under the direction of architects H.G.J. Schelling...
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    the second Dutch expedition to Indonesia from 1598 to 1599. Van Neck was from an Amsterdam family in good standing, and received a thorough education....
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    Fort Amsterdam was a fortification on the southern tip of Manhattan Island at the confluence of the Hudson and East rivers. The fort and the island were...
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    of the Amsterdam Metro network. The line starts in Amsterdam-Noord (Noord station next to the Buikslotermeerplein), continues under Amsterdam-Centrum...
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    van der Heyden (5 March 1637, Gorinchem – 28 March 1712, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Baroque-era painter, glass painter, draughtsman and printmaker. Van der...
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    until exceeded in 2004 by a Picasso painting. The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is dedicated to Van Gogh's work and that of his contemporaries. The Kröller-Müller...
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    decorating doorways, screens and vases." Van Huysum primarily lived and worked in the city of Amsterdam. Jan van Huysum and his wife Elisabeth Takens (1680–1751)...
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    Blonde Dolly (category People from Amsterdam)
    bleached it. In 1950 she purchased a house at 498 Nieuwe Haven. Later in 1950, Niemans married Botto van den Bergh, a violinist in Hague's Residentie Orchestra...
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    Vermeer". Van Ruijven's son-in-law Jacob Dissius owned 21 paintings by Vermeer, listed in his heritage in 1695. These paintings were sold in Amsterdam the following...
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    Andries Boelens (category Mayors of Amsterdam)
    de politiek in Amsterdam en op de familiegeschiedenis van het geslacht Boelens". Hfst. 3 "De monniken van St.Andries-ter-Zaliger-Haven en de familie Boelens:...
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  • Beschrijvinge van Amsterdam [Description of Amsterdam] (in Dutch). Amsterdam: Wolfgang, Waasberge, Boom, van Someren en Goethals. in English "Amsterdam". A Geographical...
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    2022, the ticket also included the journey after arrival at Hoek van Holland Haven to any station in the Netherlands (or in the reverse direction): since...
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    Hoek van Holland Haven (Hook of Holland Harbour) is a metro station on Line B of the Rotterdam Metro, in Hook of Holland (Hoek van Holland), Rotterdam...
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  • Gant store opened in Europe in Amsterdam; it is currently the oldest operating Gant store in the world. In 1995, Phillips-Van Heusen acquired the Gant brand...
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    Film director Theo van Gogh achieved international notoriety in 2004 when he was murdered by Mohammed Bouyeri in the streets of Amsterdam after directing...
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    Battle of Gibraltar, where he ultimately lost his life. Jacob van Heemskerck was born in Amsterdam in 1567. He is described as having delicate feature, large...
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    of van der Beeck. Johannes van der Beeck was born and died in Amsterdam, where he married in 1612. Relations between himself and wife Neeltgen van Camp...
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    van Aelst. In 1651 de Witte settled in Amsterdam where his first wife, Geerje Arents, died in 1655. He then married a 23-year-old orphan, Lysbeth van...
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  • Ghetto, Israel Zangwill, 1898. In Europe, Amsterdam was commonly associated with the term and was called Jeruzalem van het Westen in Dutch. Portuguese and Spanish...
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