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The West Side of Rokin, Part 1
A short history of Amsterdam's Rokin was already outlined in the blog post "The east side of Rokin", which holds the uneven numbers. The west…
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The East Side of Rokin
The Rokin, between Dam and Muntplein, is part of the original Amstel river bank, first simply called Amstel. Near Dam square a dam had been built…