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rotterdam
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Housing Units (2000): 8825
Land area (2000): 6.930121 sq. miles (17.948929 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.930121 sq. miles (17.948929 sq. km)
FIPS code: 63924
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 42.782776 N, 73.957261 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 12303
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Rotterdam
Wikipedia
Rotterdam ( or ; ) is a city in the Netherlands, located in South Holland, within the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt river delta at the North Sea. Its history goes back to 1270 when a dam was constructed in the Rotte river by people settled around it for safety. In 1340 Rotterdam was granted city rights by the Count of Holland and slowly grew into a major logistic and economic centre. Nowadays it is home to Europe's largest port and has a population of 630,383 (, city proper), ranking second in the Netherlands. The Greater Rijnmond area is home to approximately 1.4 million people and the Rotterdam The Hague urban area makes for the 168th most populous urban area in the world. Rotterdam is part of the yet larger Randstad conurbation with a total population of 7,100,000.
The city of Rotterdam is known for the Erasmus University, riverside setting, lively cultural life and its maritime heritage. The near-complete destruction of Rotterdam's city centre during World War II (known as the Rotterdam Blitz) has resulted in a varied architectural landscape including sky-scrapers, which are an uncommon sight in other Dutch cities. Rotterdam is home to some world-famous architecture from renowned architects like Rem Koolhaas, Piet Blom, Ben van Berkel and others. Recently Rotterdam was listed 8th in The Rough Guide Top 10 Cities to Visit and was voted 2015 European City of the Year by the Academy of Urbanism.
The port of Rotterdam is the largest cargo port in Europe and the 10th largest in the world. Rotterdam's logistic success is based on its strategic location on the North Sea, directly at the mouth of the Nieuwe Maas (New Meuse) channel leading into the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta. The rivers Rhine, Meuse, and Scheldt give waterway access into the heart of Western Europe, including the highly industrialized Ruhr region. The extensive distribution system including rail, roads and waterways have earned Rotterdam the nickname "Gateway to Europe", and, conversely; "Gateway to the World" in Europe.
Rotterdam may refer to:
Places- Rotterdam, a city in the Netherlands
- Rotterdam (town), New York, a town in New York state
- Rotterdam (CDP), New York, a hamlet in New York state
- Nomuka, an island in Tonga, was named Rotterdam by Abel Tasman
- " Rotterdam (or Anywhere)", a song by The Beautiful South
- Gabber music, also known as "Rotterdam Hardcore Techno"
- SS Rotterdam (1872)
- Two ships built for the Holland America Line:
- The SS Rotterdam, an ocean liner built in 1959, now a hotel and museum in Rotterdam
- The MS Rotterdam, a cruise ship built in 1997
- HNLMS Rotterdam (L800), an amphibious warfare ship
- Ahoy Rotterdam, an indoor sporting arena in Rotterdam
"Rotterdam (or Anywhere)" is a song by The Beautiful South, taken from their fifth studio album Blue Is the Colour (1996). It features Jacqui Abbott on lead vocals and reached number five on the UK Singles Chart, where it stayed for nine weeks.
Usage examples of "rotterdam".
Aldus himself was the first president of the organization, and the members included readers and correctors of the Aldine Press, priests and doctors, the cultured nobility of Venice, Padua, Rome, Bologna, and Lucca, Greek scholars from Candia, and even the great Erasmus from Rotterdam.
Our committee have received through it a report that a French freighter out of Le Havre for Rotterdam has disappeared at sea.
Seine estuary and had set course north for Rotterdam sixteen miles off the Le Havre light when Morel on the bridge had seen the navigation lights of a motor yacht appearing out of the mist.
I thought I had to become Anatole Bloomberg, an importerexporter from Rotterdam with a hook nose and flat feet, or an Antwerp diamond merchant wearing a skullcap, or a hunchbacked Talmudic scholar in a woolly black coat and shoes without shoelaces.
Jake had driven the car out of Goes and on to the main road to Rotterdam and then pulled into a lay by and told Annis to fake the wheel, and when she protested he contrived to make her feel that his leg was being troublesome.
I reached Anvers in two days, and finding a yacht ready to start I got on board and arrived at Rotterdam the next day.
I told her to go on to Rotterdam the next day and wait for me there with her son, as I had no wish to give scandal at the Hague.
On the 3rd of August all was ready, and the prince himself superintended the breaking down of the dykes in sixteen places, while at the same time the sluices at Schiedam and Rotterdam were opened and the water began to pour over the land.
The demand is for one hundred million guilders from the government, twenty million from Mr David Joseph Karlmann Meijer, the Rotterdam industrialist.
It was, in fact, why I was on my way to Rotterdam, but this particular episode was the reason I turned around in midflight on the way there.
Therese told me that the wine did not cost her anything, as the son of the Rotterdam burgomaster furnished her with it, and that he would sup with us the next day if I would allow him to be present.
I did not return to the hotel till after the play, and I then heard that the Frenchman, after having the surgeon with him for an hour, had set out for Rotterdam with his friend.
The day after tomorrow she will go to the Hague, then to Rotterdam, then back here again.
All the bombs dropped on all the cities in World War II amounted to some two million tons, two megatons, of TNT - Coventry and Rotterdam, Dresden and Tokyo, all the death that rained from the skies between 1939 and 1945: a hundred thousand blockbusters, two megatons.
But, chancing to meet with an old acquaintance, whom I did not at all desire to see, I found it convenient to withdraw softly to Rotterdam.