Pieter's in Nieuw Amsteldam

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Nieuw Amsterdam: Original Dutch name for New York The name Amsterdam is itself from Amsteldam, the Dam on the river Amstel.

Pieter may be Pieter Stuyvesant, an early director general of Nieuw Amsterdam

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