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Amsterdam old map
Amsterdam old town map. Amsterdam old map (Netherlands) to print. Amsterdam old map (Netherlands) to download. The earliest recorded use of the name "Amsterdam" is from a certificate dated 27 October 1275, when the inhabitants of Amsterdam old map, who had built a bridge with a dam across the Amstel, were exempted from paying a bridge toll by Count Floris V. The certificate describes the inhabitants of old Amsterdam as homines manentes apud Amestelledamme (people living near Amestelledamme). By 1327, the name had developed into Aemsterdam. Amsterdam founding is relatively recent compared with much older Dutch cities such as Nijmegen, Rotterdam, and Utrecht. In October 2008, historical geographer Chris de Bont suggested that the land around Amsterdam was being reclaimed as early as the late 10th century.
Although modern historians do not exclude the possibility that during the Roman period some form of settlement in Amsterdam old map existed at the mouth of the Amstel River, no evidence of one has ever been found. So far as is known, old Amsterdam originated as a small fishing village in the 13th century AD. To protect themselves from floods, the early inhabitants had to build dikes on both sides of the river, and about 1270 they built a dam between these dikes.
During the twelfth century, the fishermen living on the shore of River Amstel built a dam to prevent the settlement from flooding and this led Amsterdam old to be called Amsteldam (see Amsterdam old map). The town joined the Hanseatic League in 1358 and it began to stand out as a trading center in the north of Europe. Charles V of Spain inherited the “Spanish Netherlands” from his grandmother Mary of Burgundy after her death in 1482. Spain dependency and the discovery of the New World contributed to Amsterdam becoming the most important port in the world after Lisbon.