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During the 17th century, Amsterdam experienced what is considered its Golden Age, during which it became the wealthiest city in the Western world. [54] Ships sailed from Amsterdam to the Baltic Sea, the Caribbean, North America, and Africa, as well as present-day Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, and Brazil, forming the basis of a worldwide trading ...
Amsterdam drawn from the IJ in 1538, by Cornelis Anthoniszoon. This is the oldest city map of Amsterdam. It shows the completed medieval city with defensive wall and gates. Amsterdam has a long and eventful history. The origins of the city lie around 1000 CE, [1] [2] when inhabitants settled at the mouth of the Amstel and began peatland ...
Arnhem Land, AUS; Baviaanskloof Mega Reserve, Eastern Cape, ZA; Bergen County, New Jersey, USA; Nassau County, New York, USA; Mount Wilhelmina, former name of Puncak ...
Amsterdam, New Jersey; Arthur Kill [a] Barnegat: Barnegat Bay, Barnegat Branch Trail, Barnegat Inlet, Barnegat Light, New Jersey, Barnegat Lighthouse State Park, Barnegat Peninsula, Barnegat Township, New Jersey, Barnegat (CDP), New Jersey
For the purposes of this list, place means any named location that is smaller than a county or equivalent: cities, towns, villages, hamlets, neighborhoods, municipalities, boroughs, townships, civil parishes, localities, census-designated places, and some districts. Also included are country homes, castles, palaces, and similar institutions.
Jacques Cortelyou (c. 1625 –1693) was an influential early citizen of New Amsterdam (later New York City) who was Surveyor General of the early Dutch colony. Cortelyou's main accomplishment was the so-called Cortelyou Survey, the first map of New York City, commonly called the Castello Plan after the location in a Tuscan palace where it was rediscovered centuries later.
World map of Waldseemüller (Germany, 1507), which first used the name America (in the lower-left section, over South America) [1]. The earliest known use of the name America dates to April 25, 1507, when it was applied to what is now known as South America. [1]
The continental part of the country bore the name Tanah Melayu (literally 'Malay Land') or Malaya until 1963, when Federation of Malaysia was formed together with the territories of Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore (the latter withdrew in 1965). The name change indicated the change of the country's boundaries beyond Malay Peninsula.