Stepping into the Netherlands again, Ye Chao made a miracle and went to Amsterdam unconsciously......

This city, the capital of the Netherlands, was the first city in Europe he had ever visited. At that time, he was caught here by the Tang family with a hidden gun.

Therefore, Ye Chao was extremely impressed by this.

Probably, his subconscious wanted to come here, so he came......

Came to this open city.

Here, there are people from the Tang family, but they only dare to look at him secretly, and no one dares to touch Ye Chao's hair.

Amsterdam is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands.

The urban area has a population of about 1.1 million. Located in the western province of the country, North Holland. Its name derives from the Amstel dam, which indicates the origin of the city: a dam on the Amstel River, the site of today's Dam Square.

A small fishing village was built here in the late 12th century, and Amsterdam became one of the world's most important ports during the Dutch Golden Age.

In those days, the city was a center of finance and diamonds. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the city expanded, with many new neighborhoods and suburban settlements formed. It is now the fourth largest airport in Europe (the first three are London, Paris, and Frankfurt).

Amsterdam has a lot to offer, including the historic canal network, the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum, the Anne Frank House, the Red Light District, and many cannabis cafes. Approximately 4.2 million tourists visit the area every year.

As the current largest city in the Netherlands, Amsterdam has gone through the process of development from a fishing village to a metropolis, through the glory and destruction, and the baptism of world wars, and to a certain extent, its history is also a microcosm of Dutch history.

The history of Amsterdam can be traced back to the fishing village in the 13th century. Dams were built on the nearby Amstel River, from which Amsterdam got its name. The original name "Amstelredam", which means "Amstelredam".

The 17th century was the "Golden Age" in Amsterdam's history. Amsterdam was the most important port and banking center in the world at the time.

At the beginning of the last millennium, adventurers sailed down the Amstel River in boats made of hollowed-out logs and built dikes beyond the swampy wetlands around the river. The word "Amsterdam" was first recorded on October 27, 1275.

That year, Count Flores V of the Netherlands exempted the cost of passing through the dam. Historical sources refer to the earliest inhabitants who lived around the dam as "homines manentes apud Amestelledamme".

By 1327, the name had evolved to "Aemsterdam". Compared to older Dutch cities such as Nijmegen, Rotterdam and Utrecht, Amsterdam has a relatively short history. In October 2008, the historical geographer Chris de Bont claimed that there were traces of land reclamation around Amsterdam as early as the 10th century.

Of course, this does not mean that the area was already reclaimed at that time. Fertile land may not have been cultivated yet, which may be a vestige of peat production.

Amsterdam was officially granted city status in 1300 (1306).

From the 14th century onwards, Amsterdam began to flourish, mainly thanks to trade with the Hanseatic League. In 1345, Culver Street became a place of pilgrimage for citizens until Protestantism became the state religion of the Netherlands.

These pilgrimage rites no longer exist today, and only the sumptuous costumes of the time are left for posterity to admire.

In the 16th century, the Dutch rebelled against King Philip II of Spain and his successors as the Spanish crown that ruled the Netherlands at the time began to introduce new tax policies and establish the Spanish Inquisition, which persecuted Protestants.

The emergence of a large number of Protestants in the new capital, coupled with the revolt of the Calvinists, soon escalated into the "War of 80 Years" and eventually led to the independence of the Netherlands. The leader of the uprising, William of Orange and Nassau, who deserved to be praised, declared the independence of the eight northern Dutch provinces (including Amsterdam) as the Dutch Republic, and he became the first member of the Dutch royal family.

He pursued a series of more liberal religious policies, which allowed Jews from the Iberian Peninsula, Huguenots in France, wealthy merchants and printers in Flanders, and economic and religious refugees from the Spanish-controlled Low Countries to find safe havens in Amsterdam.

The influx of Flemish printers and the tolerance of ideas made Amsterdam a centre for free publishing in Europe.

The 17th century is considered the golden age of Amsterdam.

Dutch merchant ships sailed from Amsterdam to the Baltic Sea, North America and Africa, as well as to present-day Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and Brazil, thus forming the basis of the world trade network. A large number of shares issued by the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company were owned by Amsterdam merchants.

The overseas possessions acquired by these two companies later evolved into Dutch colonies. Amsterdam also became the center of European shipping and world financing at this time.

In 1602, the Amsterdam office of the Dutch East India Company began selling its own shares and became the world's first stock exchange.

However, from the 18th century onwards, Amsterdam's prosperity began to fade. The war between the Netherlands and England and France hit Amsterdam at its peak. Later, the Netherlands was occupied by French troops led by Napoleon.

It was not until 1815, when the Netherlands, freed from French rule, formed the Kingdom of the Netherlands with Belgium and Luxembourg that the city saw a second spring of development.

The end of the 19th century is also known as Amsterdam's second golden age. The city has built a number of new museums, a central station and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. At the same time, she also ushered in the Industrial Revolution.

The successful excavation of the Amsterdam-Rhine C**** also connected the city directly to the Rhine, while the North Sea Canal shortened the distance between the city and the North Sea.

The two projects greatly facilitated business exchanges with Europe and the rest of the world. In 1906, the writer Joseph Conrad used the "Sea Mirror" to brilliantly look at Amsterdam from the seaside. Before the First World War, the city began to expand in size, with a number of new suburbs being established.

Despite the neutrality of the Netherlands in World War I, Amsterdam suffered from food and fuel shortages, and even minor riots that resulted in casualties.

This riot became known as the "potato riot" (Aardappeloproer). People began to loot shops and warehouses in order to obtain the necessities of life, mainly food.

On May 10, 1940, Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands. The Germans established the Nazi regime in Amsterdam and began persecuting the Jews. Some citizens took great risks to shelter Jews, but more than 100,000 Dutch Jews were eventually imprisoned in concentration camps.

The most famous victim was Anne Frank, who died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Only about 5,000 Dutch Jews survived.