Appingedam
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Appingedam
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- City
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- InZicht Appingedam 006.JPG
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- Nicholas Church (left) and renaissance town hall (right) in Appingedam
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- Flag of Appingedam.svg
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- 100x67px
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- Appingedam wapen.svg
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- 100x80px
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- Map - NL - Municipality code 0003 (2009).svg
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- Highlighted position of Appingedam in a municipal map of Groningen
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- Location in Groningen
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- Country
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- Netherlands
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- Province
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- Groningen
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- Municipality
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- Netherlands Groningen#Netherlands
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Article
19 sectionsContents
- History
- Medieval Appingedam
- Trade Centre
- The “Neighbour Letter”
- Further Developments
- Conflicts with the City of Groningen
- Traditional Industries
- "Brons" Engine Factory
- Post-War Appingedam: A Battered Town
- “The Face of the Town”: Appingedam Under Protection
- Damsterdiep
- Overdiep
- Population centres
- Transport
- Sport
- Cycling
- People from Appingedam
- References
- External links
260px|thumb|Topographic map of Appingedam, September 2014
Appingedam (; ) is a city and former municipality in the northeastern Netherlands. Although there is no certainty as to the exact age of Appingedam, historical research demonstrates that the place in which the city would eventually be built had been inhabited for over a millennium. Specifically, the area in which the earliest traces of human settlements have been reported is the Wierde, a quarter located in the northern part of the city centre. Today, a narrow, winding street by the same name runs along the waterfront as a living testimony to the times gone by. The characteristic landmarks of the old Wierde are still recognisable today: the historical East-West Canal, called “Diep,” dug to the south of the Wierde, diked on both sides, still defines the unique layout of the downtown Appingedam.