Amsterdam

Maps on our site:

• 1550, Sebastian Munster, Cosmographiae Universalis, 129
  
  
• 1572, Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, map I-20

Find more maps:

• Amsterdam Heritage. Topographical development of Amsterdam
  Municipal Department for Preservation and Restoration of Historic Buldings and Sites,
  City of Amsterdam
  
  
• Amsterdam maps, XVI - XX (Dutch)
  on the site of the Bibliotheek van de Universiteit van Amsterdam
  
  
• From the website of Biblioteca Nationale Marciana:
  
  Amsterdam Georg Braun, Frans Hogenberg 1618
  
  Amsterdam Valegio Francesco, 1625 ?
  
  
• Amsterdam, Dutch City maps from Blaeu's Toonneel der Steden
  Scanned by George M. Welling
  
  
• Amsterdam town scape 1650-1700
  on the site of the Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden
  
  
• Amsterdam 1727
  from the Map collections: 1500-2002, The Library of Congress
  
  
• Amsterdam stad 1865-1870
  from J. Kuyper's Gemeente Atlas van Nederland
  
  

Located on over 90 islands in the IJ arm of the IJsselmeer; early inhabitants built dikes on both sides of the Amstel river to prevent flooding, & a dam was built between the dikes in 1270; chartered in 1306; was financial center of the world by 17th cen.

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