Buiksloot
Sign in to saveBuiksloot is a former village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is now a neighbourhood of Amsterdam-Noord. Buiksloot was a separate municipality from 1811 until 1921, when it was merged with Amsterdam.
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- Settlement.name
- Buiksloot
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Buiksloot.gif
- Settlement.caption
- Map of Buiksloot
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Netherlands
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- North Holland
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Amsterdam
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of the Netherlands
- Country
- Netherlands
- Located in
- North Holland
- Population
- 563
- Location
- Amsterdam-Noord
- Image
- Buiksloot.gif
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- Buiksloot
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Location
- History
- Waterland
- Polders of Buiksloot
- Settlement
- Accessibility of Amsterdam
- Eighty Years' War
- Merger with Amsterdam
- New housing estates
- Notable people from Buiksloot
- References
Buiksloot is a former village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is now a neighbourhood of Amsterdam-Noord. Buiksloot was a separate municipality from 1811 until 1921, when it was merged with Amsterdam.
From 1888 to 1956, Buiksloot had a tram connection with Amsterdam-Noord and Waterland. The Waterland tram had a stop in Buiksloot, near today's Nieuwe Leeuwarderweg. Since 2018, Buiksloot has been cut in half by the Noord/Zuidlijn metro.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Buiksloot” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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