Amsterdam: A brief life of the city

Amsterdam participated in this, but only with one ship: “the peace cog of Amsterdam

Amsterdam is now situated appeared at the end of the twelfth century, set on a layer of clay formed by the great floods of 1170 and 1173.

This tendency in the coastal areas to deal with problems privately, to tend towards decentralization and a rough kind of democracy, was to form the basis of the administrative tradition which, in the end, would determine Dutch political culture for centuries to come.

1300 Amsterdam c. 1575 Amsterdam c. 1650 Amsterdam c. 1980