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When the Dutch arrived in the area it was inhabited by various groups of native Americans speaking Algonquian languages. A Dutch colony on Manhattan was established in 1624 by the Dutch West India Company, possibly when its trading post at Albany was experiencing difficulties. In 1625 or 1626 Peter Minuit, a Walloon, arrived in the colony and as governor was credited with the purchase of the island from the natives in 1626—maybe from a Metoac tribe known as the Canarsees —in exchange for trade goods valued at 60 guilders. This figure is from a letter by Peter Schagen to the board of the Dutch West India Company: a traditional conversion to $24US using 19th century exchange rates is not particularly meaningful. The trade goods are sometimes identified as beads and trinkets, but that may also have been an embellishment by 19th century writers.
New Amsterdam was incorporated on February 2, 1653.
In a war between England and the United Netherlands, the New Netherlands were seized by the English, with director general Peter Stuyvesant surrendering New Amsterdam on September 24, 1664. The colony was subsequently renamed New York, after the duke of York—brother of the English king Charles II—who had been granted the lands.
In 1667, the Dutch withdrew their claims on the colony in the Treaty of Breda, as they were granted the rights to Suriname. However, in a subsequent war between the English and the Dutch, the Dutch recaptured the colony briefly in 1673 before handing it over for good after the signing of the Treaty of Westminster on February 19, 1674.
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Crosswords: NEW AMSTERDAM |
| English words defined with "NEW AMSTERDAM": Bowling Green. (references) |
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Lyrics | Even old New York was once New Amsterdam (Istanbul (Not Constantinople); performing artist: They Might Be Giants) | |
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 | Southern Fur Seal -- Arctocephalus gazella Peters and Arctocephalus elegans Peters. As seen at New Amsterdam Island. In: "Die Forschungsreise S. M. S. "Gazelle" in den Jahren 1874 bis 1876." P. 322. Plate 3. Library Call Number C/L G373 H. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | Winter days in New Amsterdam. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Wm. H. Crane as Peter Stuyvesant, Governor of New Amsterdam by Brander Matthews & Bronson Howard. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Economic History | Guyana | Ferry facilities in some areas have been upgraded, and the government has announced plans to build a bridge over the Berbice River and a deep-water harbor in New Amsterdam, Berbice. (references) |
Human Rights | Guyana | Shamshudeen and the others were taken to a New Amsterdam hospital, where Shamshudeen later died. (references) |
Guyana | Conditions were generally adequate in the only women's prison, which is at New Amsterdam, in a facility that holds men and women in separate dormitory-type buildings. (references) | |
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1. New Amsterdam, IN (town, FIPS 52398) 2. New Amsterdam , Guyana |
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| Language | Translations for "NEW AMSTERDAM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | Novjorko (New York, New York City). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Irish | Nua-Eabhrac (New York City). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ewnay amsterdamay Нью‐Йорк (New York, New York City), Нью‐Йо, Нь�. (various references) Nueva York (New York, New York City, Ny). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-m-m-n-r-s-t-w" | |
-3 letters: armaments, smartened, smartweed, stammered, tradesman, tradesmen. | |
-4 letters: amenders, ammeters, amreetas, answered, armament, arsenate, awardees, dewaters, eastward, emanated, emanates, maenades, manatees, mandates, manwards, mastered, meanders, menswear, metamers, radwaste, sarmenta, seawater, serenata, stemware, streamed, tarweeds, teawares, waterman, watermen. | |
-5 letters: aerated, aerates, amender, ammeter, amreeta, anadems, aneared, ansated, awardee, dammars, dammers, damners, dearest, deewans, demeans, dements. | |
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