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Nieuw-Amsterdam (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌniu.ɑmstərˈdɑm]) is a village in the northeast Netherlands, in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It borders the village of Veenoord, the twin village of Nieuw-Amsterdam. Since 1998 Nieuw-Amsterdam and Veenoord are part of the municipality of Emmen.
New Amsterdam (Dutch: Nieuw Amsterdam, pronounced [ˌniu.ɑmstərˈdɑm]) was a 17th-century Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island that served as the seat of the colonial government in New Netherland.
SS Nieuw Amsterdam was a Dutch transatlantic ocean liner that was built in 1938 and scrapped in 1974. She was the second Holland America Line (Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij, or NASM) ship to be named after the former Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, now New York.
In the contemporary borough of Brooklyn, Bergen Street was named for the family of one of the earliest settlers of Nieuw Amsterdam, Hans Hansen Bergen, who arrived in the province of New Netherland in 1633 as a ship's carpenter. [23] He came from Bergen, Norway, and was one of the few Scandinavian settlers of Nieuw Amsterdam (New York City).
Image of Nieuw Amsterdam made in 1664, the year that it was surrendered to English forces under Richard Nicolls The Garrison Windmill , which succeeded the Old Fort Windmill at the Battery, was constructed by Jan De Witt during Peter Stuyvesant's time as Director-General of New Netherland, incorporating materials from the old windmill.
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New Netherland (Dutch: Nieuw Nederland) was a 17th-century colonial province [5] of the Dutch Republic located on the East Coast of what is now the United States.The claimed territories extended from the Delmarva Peninsula to Cape Cod.
Nieuw Amsterdam was laid down on 15 July 2008, launched on 30 October 2009 and completed on 30 June 2010. [2] The ship was christened by Princess Maxima of the Netherlands in Venice, Italy on 4 July 2010 before embarking on its maiden voyage from Venice on 5 July 2010. [3] On 10 October 2017, Nieuw Amsterdam was driven ashore at Santa Cruz ...