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Amsterdam (/ ˈ æ m s t ər d æ m /) is a city in Montgomery County, New York, United States.As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 18,219. The city is named after Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Amsterdam is a town in Montgomery County, New York, United States. The population was 5,566 at the 2010 census. [2] The town is named after Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. The town is adjacent to and borders the city of Amsterdam on three sides. The town is on the county's northeastern border.
Counties of New York Location State of New York Number 62 Populations 5,082 (Hamilton) – 2,561,225 (Kings) Areas 33.77 square miles (87.5 km 2) (New York) – 2,821 square miles (7,310 km 2) (St. Lawrence) Government County government Subdivisions Cities, Towns, Indian Reservations Part of a series on Regions of New York Downstate New York New York City Long Island Hudson Valley (Lower ...
Regions of New York states as defined by the Empire State Development Corporation Regions of New York. The ten regions of New York, as defined by the Empire State Development Corporation: Capital District – counties : Albany, Columbia, Greene, Warren, Washington, Saratoga, Schenectady, Rensselaer
Map of New York. There are and have been several movements regarding secession from the U.S. state of New York.Only one of them – the state of Vermont – succeeded. Among the unsuccessful ones, the most prominent included the proposed state of Long Island, consisting of everything on the island outside New York City; a state called Niagara, the western counties of New York state; the ...
In 1617, officials of the Dutch West India Company in New Netherland created a settlement at present-day Albany, and in 1624 founded New Amsterdam, on Manhattan Island.The Dutch colony included claims to an area comprising all of the present U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Vermont, along with inland portions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Maine in addition to eastern ...
This is a list of US places named after non-US places.In the case of this list, place means any named location that's smaller than a county or equivalent: cities, towns, villages, hamlets, neighborhoods, municipalities, boroughs, townships, civil parishes, localities, census-designated places, and some districts.
On August 29, 1664, The Duke of York’s forces captured New Amsterdam from the Dutch, as part of their conquest of New Netherland. They renamed New Netherland as the Province of New York, which included modern New York, New Jersey, Vermont, southeast Pennsylvania, and Delaware. [1] Yorkshire was created soon afterward in 1664.