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In 1300, Amsterdam's population was around 1,000 people. [91] While many towns in Holland experienced population decline during the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam's population grew, [92] mainly due to the rise of the profitable Baltic maritime trade especially in grain after the Burgundian victory in the Dutch–Hanseatic War in 1441. [93]
This is a list of place names in the United States that either are Dutch, were translated from Dutch, or were heavily inspired by a Dutch name or term. Many originate from the Dutch colony of New Netherland.
Germans, for example, are one of the largest immigrant groups and places named after German cities are widespread across the United States. However, there is still a general concentration of them in the Midwestern United States, especially in Missouri. Other sources of foreign names transferred to the U.S. are the Bible and ancient history ...
Amsterdam Island, Spitsbergen; Amsterdam Island, Southern Indian Ocean; Bear Island, Norway; Bedloe's Island, now Liberty Island, New York-NJ, USA; Block Island ...
Amsterdam is the country's most populous city and the nominal capital, though the primary national political institutions are located in the Hague. [ 24 ] The Netherlands has been a parliamentary constitutional monarchy with a unitary structure since 1848.
U.S. Census Bureau regions and divisions. Since 1950, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. [1] [2] The Census Bureau region definition is "widely used... for data collection and analysis", [3] and is the most commonly used classification system.
This is an alphabetical list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Americas.It comprises three regions, Northern America (Canada and the United States), the Caribbean (cultural region of the English, French, Dutch, and Creole speaking countries located on the Caribbean Sea) and Latin America (nations that speak Spanish and Portuguese).
The final report estimated about 3.1% of the U.S. population in 1790 was of Dutch origin, heavily concentrated in the Middle Colonies of historic New Netherland which became the British American Colonial Province of New York, Province of New Jersey, Province of Pennsylvania, and Delaware Colony—ultimately forming the U.S. states of New York ...