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What do Amsterdam mean?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Amsterdam gets its name from a "dam" in the river "amstel" (this river runs right true Amsterdam.) At frist (700+ years ago) they called the city "amsteldam" that became Amsterdam. Ur welcome.

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