Rowing at the 1928 Summer Olympics

Sloten (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈsloːtə(n)]; 52.342°N 4.797°E / 52.342; 4.797) is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Amsterdam, and lies about 6 km west of the city centre.Sloten became a separate municipality in 1816. Absorbed into Amsterdam in January 1921, Sloten (founded in the year 990) became the oldest part of Amsterdam (itself founded in 1254). Sloten is one of the few remnants of various places that have marks of Osdorp before the 1950s and Sloterdijk as well, Sloten was threatened by urbanisation on many occasions between the 1950s and the 1970s, as thousands of houses rose between the wide polderland of the Osdorp region. Sloten remained untouched by suburban growth until in the 1980s, when the Netherlands campaigned to host the 1992 Summer Olympics. Officials proposed that the area around Sloten will become an Olympic Village. When Barcelona was chosen to be the host, they changed plans and built to create Nieuw Sloten, which rose in the 1990s. During the 1928 Summer Olympics, Sloten hosted the rowing events. Now it is best known for the working windmill, transformed into the Rembrandt Sloten Windmill/Coopery Museum.

Tyndale Theological Seminary is an interdenominational Evangelical Christian seminary in Badhoevedorp, The Netherlands.

Badhoevedorp is a town in the municipality of Haarlemmermeer in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. It lies next to the Ringvaart around Haarlemmermeer, the canal around the former Lake Haarlem, at the side of the polder bordering Amsterdam and Amstelveen. Badhoevedorp has a population of around 11,370.Notable residents include Björn Ottenheim of the band zZz, former Dutch national team footballer Marco van Basten, Jack van Gelder, Tonny Eyk and Toon van Driel. The Rijksweg 9 passes next to the town, from 8 August 1967 to 10 April 2017, the motorway passed through the town, however it was diverted, with the original section being closed and demolished to make place for new development in the area.

FC Blauw-Wit Amsterdam (English: Blue-White) was a Dutch football club from Amsterdam. The name referred to the colours of their uniform, blue and white.

Established in 1956, the Sportpark Sloten is a large sports complex located on the Riekerpolder at Sloterweg in Amsterdam - Sloten. Surrounding the stadium is an asphalt cycling circuit, 2,5 km in length.Stadia: The Velodrome Amsterdam, is one of only three covered Velodromes in the Netherlands, and played host to the annual Zesdaagse van Amsterdam (2001-2016) The gymnastics-hall Turnace.Several sport clubs are tenants of the complex, such as: FC Blauw-Wit (since 1965), ZRC/Herenmarkt (since 1967, resp. 1994), Beursbengels and Nieuw Sloten (since 2004 each), American football-club Amsterdam Crusaders The Golf course Sloten.

The Dutch Open is an annual golf tournament played in the Netherlands, and has been part of the European Tour's schedule since the Tour was inaugurated in 1972.

The Dijkgraafplein is a square in Amsterdam-Osdorp in the Netherlands, lying at the end of Tussen Meer. The square is named after the office of dijkgraaf (the chairman of a water board) in 1962. The Dijkgraafplein lies in the neighborhood that is now known as 'De Punt' and where many streets are named after waterways. Since 1962 tram line 17 terminates on this square. From 1971 tram line 1 also began here. In 2001, line 1 began running via a new tram track to De Aker and line 17 was again extended to the Dijkgraafplein, just as between 1962 and 1971.

De Aker (Dutch pronunciation: [də ˈʔaːkər]) is a neighborhood of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Nieuw Sloten is a neighborhood of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Nieuw Sloten was created in the 1990s because the Netherlands failed to become the host of the 1992 Summer Olympics, losing to Barcelona, an agreement was made with local farmers and construction would then begin, Nieuw Sloten would almost overwhelm the older counterpart Sloten, but thanks to local disagreement and defence of the village by the locals, the village was kept untouched along with a small part of the former polders in which the buildings of Nieuw-West currently stand on today.

De Bunker is a high security courtroom in Amsterdam Nieuw-West.

Nieuwe Meer is a hamlet in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Haarlemmermeer, and lies about 8 km southwest of Amsterdam. Nieuwe Meer has a population of around 410.Nieuwe Meer is originally the name of the adjacent small lake which lies within Amsterdam city borders.

Osdorp (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɔzˌdɔr(ə)p]) is neighbourhood of Amsterdam, Netherlands. A larger area was, from 1981 until 2010, a stadsdeel (borough) of Amsterdam and in 2010 was merged into the new borough of Amsterdam Nieuw-West.