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New Amsterdam. The dutch named it.
New Amsterdam
New York
In history when the Dutch settled in Manhattan, they called it New Amsterdam.
New Amsterdam is the original Dutch name for the modern New York City. The town was founded in 1625. The Dutch name was Nieuw Amsterdam. It was part of the Dutch settlement of what became the state of New York, in the subsequent United States of America.
The Dutch first called New York City, New Amsterdam. Then the English took it away from the Dutch and renamed it New York.
The Dutch called this colony New Amsterdam.
"New Amsterdam" was the name given to Manhattan by Dutch settlers, as Amsterdam was the name of their big city in 1614-1664
The Dutch. The city was named after their own capital Amsterdam: New Amsterdam.
The New Amsterdam name came from the dutch. It was named after a city in the Netherlands named Amsterdam. it was in houner for thier king
New York (originally New Amsterdam)
The Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam became New York when the English took control in 1664.