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The 36 pages that link to Amsterdam, each with the reason it gives.

• Dutch RepublicBroader topic: Its institutions and publishing market formed part of the setting for Descartes's work.

• Dutch Golden AgeBroader topic: The city became the Republic’s leading commercial and cultural hub.

• OvertourismBroader topic: The city has used restrictions and campaigns to address disruptive visitor behavior.

• Baruch SpinozaRelated: Its commercial and religious diversity formed the setting of his Portuguese-Jewish community.

• AntwerpRelated: Many merchants and skilled workers who left Antwerp helped strengthen Amsterdam’s economy.

• NetherlandsBroader topic: The constitutional capital contrasts with The Hague, where the government sits.

• RembrandtRelated: The city’s patrons and institutions sustained most of Rembrandt’s mature career.

• The HagueCompared with: Amsterdam is the constitutional capital, while the government sits in The Hague.

• 1928 Summer OlympicsRelated: The city hosted the Games after a long campaign to bring the Olympics to the Netherlands.

• BrugesCompared with: Amsterdam’s commercial ascent followed the era when Bruges dominated northern European trade.

• RotterdamCompared with: Amsterdam’s preserved historic core contrasts with Rotterdam’s largely postwar center.

• Anne FrankRelated: The city is the setting for the diary’s accounts of concealment and daily life.

• Batavian RevolutionBroader topic: Its revolutionary committee helped establish new authority in the republic’s most influential city.

• The FallRelated: Its canals and bridges provide the setting for Clamence’s conversations and remembered failure.

• County of HollandBroader topic: Its growth made Holland the Republic’s leading center of trade and finance.

• Ruud GullitRelated: Gullit was born and raised in Amsterdam.

• University of AmsterdamRelated: The university’s development has been shaped by its home city.

• Jacques BrelBroader topic: Its crowded, physical scene shows how Brel turned observation into theatrical song.

• Tulip maniaRelated: The city’s trading wealth and financial networks shaped the boom’s wider context.

• Bicycle-sharing systemRelated: Its 1960s white-bicycle proposal became a well-known early sharing experiment.

• Jan SwammerdamRelated: Swammerdam was born and trained in Amsterdam’s active community of physicians and naturalists.

• Fanny Blankers-KoenRelated: Her Dutch upbringing and early sporting life began in this city.

• Joost van den VondelRelated: The city’s theatre and civic life shaped Vondel’s career and literary world.

• North HollandBroader topic: The provincial capital and its largest urban center.

• Abbé PrévostRelated: Prévost’s life and publishing career included time in this Dutch city.

• Amsterdam Airport SchipholRelated: The airport supports the city’s tourism and business links while affecting surrounding communities.

• John SmythRelated: Smyth’s congregation settled here, where its beliefs and practices changed.

• Peter ArtediRelated: Artedi’s death by drowning in an Amsterdam canal ended his work at age 30.

• The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes TulpNarrower topic: The city’s surgeons’ guild commissioned the work amid its seventeenth-century civic expansion.

• Amsterdam–Rhine CanalRelated: The canal begins in Amsterdam, linking its port to inland shipping routes.

• André HazesRelated: Hazes’s working-class Amsterdam identity became central to his public image and many of his songs.

• Architecture of the NetherlandsBroader topic: Its canals, narrow plots, and layered building history provide a concentrated architectural record.

• FlixBusRelated: FlixBus routes connect Amsterdam with cities in the Netherlands and abroad.

• Freddy HeinekenRelated: The Heineken brewery began there, grounding the company in its Dutch identity.

• William II of OrangeBroader topic: William’s 1650 attempt to pressure this powerful city became the crisis’s defining episode.

• Xaviera HollanderRelated: Hollander was born in the Netherlands before building her career in the United States.