Population Of Antwerp 2018

Antwerp Population. Question: What is the population of Antwerp? Answer: Antwerp (Antwerpen, Anvers; Antwerp), Belgium (Administrative unit: Antwerp) - last known population is ≈ 513 600 (year 2015). This was 4.545% of total Belgium population. Population per sq. Km 478 *situation on 1 January 2018 (source: www.ibz.rrn.fgov.be). Major cities*. Aalst population of 85,615. Antwerp population of 521,680. Area of Antwerp village is 1.0 mi² (=2.7 km²) [6], in this year population density was 678.29 p/mi². If population growth rate would be same as in period 2010-2014 (+0.51%/yr), Antwerp village population in 2018 would be 714*.

See also: Origin of the name According to, notably celebrated by a statue in front of the, the city got its name from a legend about a called who lived near the river. He extracted a toll from passing boatmen, and for those who refused, he severed one of their hands and threw it into the river. Eventually the giant was killed by a young hero named, who cut off the giant's own hand and flung it into the river. Hence the name Antwerpen, from hand werpen, akin to Old English hand and wearpan (to throw), which has evolved to today's warp.

A longstanding theory is that the name originated in the Gallo-Roman period and comes from the Latin antverpia. Antverpia would come from Ante (before) Verpia (deposition, sedimentation), indicating land that forms by deposition in the inside curve of a river (which is in fact the same origin as Germanic waerpen). Note that the river Scheldt, before a transition period between 600 and 750, followed a different track. This must have coincided roughly with the current ringway south of the city, situating the city within a former curve of the river. However, many historians think it unlikely that there was a large settlement which would be named 'Antverpia', but more something like an outpost with a river crossing.

However, argues, and so do a lot of Dutch etymologists and historians, that Antwerp's name derives from ' anda' (at) and 'werpum' (wharf) to give an 't werf (on the wharf, in the same meaning as the current English ). Aan 't werp (at the warp) is also possible. This 'warp' (thrown ground) is a man-made hill or a river deposit, high enough to remain dry at high tide, whereupon a construction could be built that would remain dry.

Another word for werp is pol (dyke) hence (the dry land behind a dyke, that was no longer flooded by the tide). Has suggested that derivations based on hand werpen, Antverpia, 'on the wharf', or 'at the warp' lack historical backing in the form of recorded past spellings of the placename. He points instead to 's Life of ( Vita Eligii) from the 7th century, which records the form Andoverpis. He sees in it a Celtic origin indicating 'those who live on both banks'.

Pre-1500 Historical Antwerp allegedly had its origins in a Gallo-Roman. Excavations carried out in the oldest section near the Scheldt, 1952–1961 (ref.

Princeton), produced pottery shards and fragments of glass from mid-2nd century to the end of the 3rd century. The earliest mention of Antwerp dates from the 4th century. In the 4th century, Antwerp was first named, having been settled by the. The Antwerp was evangelized by in the 7th century.

At the end of the 10th century, the Scheldt became the boundary of the. Antwerp became a in 980, by the German emperor, a border province facing the. In the 11th century, the best-known leader of the (1096-1099), was originally, from 1076 until his death in 1100, though he was later also Duke of (1087-1100) and (1099-1100). In the 12th century, established a community of his at at Caloes.

Antwerp was also the headquarters of during his early negotiations with, and his son, the, was born there in 1338. 16th century. The Elder, from Antwerp.

Dishes with Oysters, Fruit, and Wine, c. 1620/1625 After the silting-up of the and the consequent decline of, the city of Antwerp, then part of the, grew in importance. At the end of the 15th century the foreign trading houses were transferred from Bruges to Antwerp, and the building assigned to the English nation is specifically mentioned in 1510. Antwerp became the sugar capital of Europe, importing the raw commodity from Portuguese and Spanish plantations. The city attracted Italian and German sugar refiners by 1550, and shipped their refined product to Germany, especially Cologne. Moneylenders and financiers developed a large business lending money all over Europe including the English government in 1544–1574.

London bankers were too small to operate on that scale, and Antwerp had a highly efficient that itself attracted rich bankers from around Europe. After the 1570s, the city's banking business declined: England ended its borrowing in Antwerp in 1574. States that Antwerp became 'the centre of the entire international economy, something Bruges had never been even at its height.' Antwerp was the richest city in Europe at this time.

Antwerp's is tightly linked to the '. During the first half of the 16th century Antwerp grew to become the second-largest European city north of the Alps. Many foreign merchants were resident in the city., the Florentine envoy, stated that hundreds of ships would pass in a day, and 2,000 carts entered the city each week. Portuguese ships laden with and would unload their cargo. According to Luc-Normand Tellier 'It is estimated that the port of Antwerp was earning the Spanish crown seven times more revenues than the.'

The in 1576, in which about 7,000 people died. Without a long-distance merchant fleet, and governed by an oligarchy of banker-aristocrats forbidden to engage in trade, the economy of Antwerp was foreigner-controlled, which made the city very cosmopolitan, with merchants and traders from, Spain and Portugal. Antwerp had a policy of toleration, which attracted a large crypto- community composed of migrants from Spain and Portugal. By 1504, the Portuguese had established Antwerp as one of their main shipping bases, bringing in spices from Asia and trading them for textiles and metal goods. The city's trade expanded to include cloth from England, Italy and Germany, wines from Germany, France and Spain, salt from France, and wheat from the Baltic.

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The city's skilled workers processed soap, fish, sugar, and especially cloth. Banks helped finance the trade, the merchants, and the manufacturers. The city was a cosmopolitan center; its bourse opened in 1531, 'To the merchants of all nations.'

Antwerp experienced three booms during its golden age: the first based on the pepper market, a second launched by American silver coming from (ending with the bankruptcy of Spain in 1557), and a third boom, after the stabilising in 1559, based on the textiles industry. At the beginning of the 16th century Antwerp accounted for 40% of world trade. The boom-and-bust cycles and inflationary cost-of-living squeezed less-skilled workers. In the century after 1541, the city's economy and population declined dramatically The Portuguese merchants left in 1549, and there was much less trade in English cloth.

Numerous financial bankruptcies began around 1557. Amsterdam replaced Antwerp as the major trading center for the region. Reformation era.

View of the Pier of Antwerp from the The religious revolution of the erupted in violent riots in August 1566, as in other parts of the. The regent, was swept aside when sent the at the head of an army the following summer. When the broke out in 1568, commercial trading between Antwerp and the Spanish port of collapsed and became impossible. On 4 November 1576, Spanish soldiers sacked the city during the so-called: 7,000 citizens were massacred, 800 houses were burnt down, and over £2 million sterling of damage was done. Dutch revolt Subsequently, the city joined the in 1579 and became the capital of the. In 1585, captured it after a and as part of the terms of surrender its citizens were given two years to settle their affairs before quitting the city.

Most went to the in the north, starting the. Antwerp's banking was controlled for a generation by, and became the new trading centre. 17th–19th centuries.

'View of Antwerp with the frozen Scheldt' (1590). The recognition of the independence of the by the in 1648 stipulated that the should be closed to navigation, which destroyed Antwerp's trading activities. This impediment remained in force until 1863, although the provisions were relaxed during French rule from 1795 to 1814, and also during the time Belgium formed part of the (1815 to 1830). Antwerp had reached the lowest point in its fortunes in 1800, and its population had sunk to under 40,000, when, realizing its strategic importance, assigned funds to enlarge the harbour by constructing a new dock (still named the Bonaparte Dock) and an access- and and deepening the Scheldt to allow for larger ships to approach Antwerp. Napoleon hoped that by making Antwerp's harbour the finest in Europe he would be able to counter the Port of London and hamper British growth. However, he was defeated at the before he could see the plan through.

Results of, October 1914 Antwerp was the first city to host the, in 1903. During, the city became the fallback point of the after the defeat at.

The lasted for 11 days, but the city was taken after heavy fighting by the German Army, and the Belgians were forced to retreat westwards. Antwerp remained under until the Armistice. Antwerp hosted the. During, the city was an important strategic target because of its port. It was in May 1940 and liberated by the on 4 September 1944. After this, the Germans attempted to destroy the, which was used by the Allies to bring new material ashore. Thousands of, and missiles were fired (more V-2s than used on all other targets during the entire war combined), causing severe damage to the city but failed to destroy the port due to poor accuracy.

After the war, Antwerp, which had already had a sizeable Jewish population before the war, once again became a major European centre of (and particularly ). A Ten-Year Plan for the port of Antwerp (1956–1965) expanded and modernized the port's infrastructure with national funding to build a set of canal docks. The broader aim was to facilitate the growth of the north-eastern Antwerp metropolitan region, which attracted new industry based on a flexible and strategic implementation of the project as a co-production between various authorities and private parties. The plan succeeded in extending the linear layout along the Scheldt river by connecting new satellite communities to the main strip. Starting in the 1990s, Antwerp rebranded itself as a world-class fashion centre. Emphasizing the avant-garde, it tried to compete with London, Milan, New York and Paris.

It emerged from organized tourism and mega-cultural events. Municipality. Main article: The municipality comprises the city of Antwerp proper and several towns.

It is divided into nine entities (districts):. In 1958, in preparation of the 10-year development plan for the, the municipalities of were integrated into the city territory and lost their administrative independence. During the 1983 merger of municipalities, conducted by the Belgian government as an administrative simplification, the municipalities of, and were merged into the city. At that time the city was also divided into the districts mentioned above.

Simultaneously, districts received an appointed district council; later district councils became elected bodies. Buildings and landmarks. Het Steen (literally: 'The Stone'). Although Antwerp was formerly a fortified city, hardly anything remains of the former, only some remains of the city wall can be seen near the museum at the corner of Bloedberg and Burchtgracht. A replica of a castle named has been partly rebuilt near the Scheldt-quais in the 19th century. Antwerp's development as a fortified city is documented between the 10th and the 20th century. The fortifications were developed in different phases:.

10th century: fortification of the wharf with a wall and a ditch. 12th and 13th century: canals (so called 'vlieten' and 'ruien') were made. 16th century: Spanish fortifications. 19th century: double ring of Brialmont forts around the city, dismantling of the Spanish fortifications. 20th century: 1960 dismantling of the inner ring of forts, decommissioning of the outer ring of forts Demographics Historical population. Population time-line of Antwerp. This is the population of the city of Antwerp only, not of the larger current municipality of the same name.

1374: 18,000. 1486: 40,000. 1500: around 44/49,000 inhabitants. 1526: 50,000. 1567: 105,000 (90,000 permanent residents and 15,000 'floating population', including foreign merchants and soldiers. At the time only 10 cities in Europe reached this size.).

1584: 84,000 (after the, the and the Calvinist republic). 1586 (May): 60,000 (after ). 1586 (October): 50,000. 1591: 46,000. 1612: 54,000. 1620: 66,000. 1640: 54,000 (after the epidemics).

1700: 66,000. 1765: 40,000.

1784: 51,000. 1800: 45,500. 1815: 54,000. 1830: 73,500. 1856: 111,700. 1880: 179,000.

1900: 275,100. 1925: 308,000. 1959: 260,000 Minorities. After the and the destruction of its many Jews, Antwerp became a major centre for Orthodox Jews. At present, about 15,000 Jews, many of them, live in Antwerp.

The city has three official Jewish Congregations: Shomrei Hadass, headed by Rabbi Dovid Moishe Lieberman, Machsike Hadass, headed by Rabbi Aron Schiff (formerly by Chief Rabbi ) and the Portuguese Community Ben Moshe. Antwerp has an extensive network of synagogues, shops, schools and organizations. Significant Hasidic movements in Antwerp include, based in Antwerp, as well as branches of, and several others. Rabbi, chief rabbi of the Machsike Hadas community, who died in 2003, was arguably one of the better known personalities to have been based in Antwerp. An attempt to have a street named after him has received the support of the Town Hall and is in the process of being implemented. Jain community.

In Antwerp The Jains in Belgium are estimated to be around about 1,500 people. The majority live in Antwerp, mostly involved in the very lucrative diamond business. Belgian Indian Jains control two-thirds of the rough diamonds trade and supplied India with roughly 36% of their rough diamonds. A major temple, with a cultural centre, has been built in Antwerp (Wilrijk).

Mr Ramesh Mehta, a Jain, is a full-fledged member of the Belgian Council of Religious Leaders, put up on 17 December 2009. Armenian community. Main article: There are significant that reside in Antwerp, many of them are descendants of traders who settled during the 19th century. Most Armenian Belgians are adherents of the, with a smaller numbers are adherents of the.

One of the important sectors that Armenian communities in Antwerp excel and involved in is the trade business, that based primarily in the. Some of the famous Armenian families involved in the diamond business in the city are the Artinians, Arslanians, Aslanians, Barsamians and the Osganians. terminal at the. According to the, the was the seventeenth largest (by tonnage) port in the world in 2005 and second only to in Europe.

Importantly it handles high volumes of economically attractive and, as well as. Antwerp's docklands, with five, are home to a massive concentration of industries, second only to the petrochemical cluster in,. is also an important activity, with four plants at, a in Kallo, as well as several smaller plants. There is a in the northern part of the port area. There are plans to extend this in the period 2014–2020. The old Belgian bordering the for a distance of 5.6 km (3.5 mi) to the north and south of the city centre have been retained for their sentimental value and are used mainly.

Antwerp's other great mainstay is the diamond trade that takes place largely within the. The city has four: the Diamond Club of Antwerp, the Beurs voor Diamanthandel, the and the Vrije Diamanthandel. Since World War II families of the large have dominated Antwerp's diamond trading industry, although the last two decades have seen and from and, traders become increasingly important., (AWDC) the successor to the Hoge Raad voor Diamant, plays an important role in setting standards, regulating professional ethics, training and promoting the interests of Antwerp as the capital of the diamond industry. The AWDC is a non-profit organisation to represent the important diamond community in a united front to various stake-holders. Transportation Road A six-lane motorway bypass encircles much of the city centre and runs through the urban residential area of Antwerp. Known locally as the 'Ring' it offers motorway connections to, and, and and and (Netherlands).

The banks of the Scheldt are linked by three road tunnels (in order of construction): the Waasland Tunnel (1934), the (1967) and the (1991). Daily congestion on the Ring led to a fourth high-volume highway link called the ' being proposed. It would have entailed the construction of a long viaduct and bridge (the Lange Wapper) over the docks on the north side of the city in combination with the widening of the existing motorway into a 14-lane motorway; these plans were eventually rejected in a 2009 public referendum. In September 2010 the decided to replace the bridge by a series of tunnels. There are ideas to cover the Ring in a similar way as happened around Paris, Hamburg, Madrid and other cities. This would reconnect the city with its suburbs and would provide development opportunities to accommodate part of the foreseen population growth in Antwerp which currently are not possible because of the pollution and noise generated by the traffic on the Ring.

An old plan to build an R2 outer ring road outside the built up urban area around the Antwerp agglomeration for port related traffic and transit traffic never materialized. Rail. Antwerp is the focus of lines to the north to Essen and the Netherlands, east to Turnhout, south to Mechelen, Brussels and Charleroi, and southwest to Ghent and Ostend. It is served by international trains to and Paris, and national trains to,. Is an architectural monument in itself, and is mentioned in 's haunting novel. Prior to the completion in 2007 of a tunnel that runs northwards under the city centre to emerge at the old Antwerp Dam station, Central was a terminus.

Trains from Brussels to the Netherlands had to either reverse at Central or call only at Berchem station, 2 kilometres (1 mile) to the south, and then describe a semicircle to the east, round the Singel. Now, they call at the new lower level of the station before continuing in the same direction.

Antwerp is also home to Antwerpen-Noord, the largest for freight in Belgium and second largest in Europe. The majority of freight trains in Belgium depart from or arrive here. It has two classification humps and over a hundred tracks. Public transportation The city has a web of tram and bus lines operated by and providing access to the city centre, suburbs and the Left Bank. The has 12 lines, of which the underground section is called the ' and includes a tunnel under the river. The functions as the city's main hub for local and regional bus lines.

A small airport, is located in the district of, with passenger service to various European destinations. A bus service connects the airport to the city centre. The now defunct had its head office on the grounds of Antwerp International Airport.

This office is also 's Antwerp office. When (Delsey Airlines) existed, its head office was located in the district of. Belgium's major, is about 45 kilometres (28 miles) from the city of Antwerp, and connects the city worldwide. It is connected to the city centre by bus, and also by train. The new Diabolo rail connection provides a direct fast train connection between Antwerp and Brussels Airport as of the summer of 2012. There is also a direct rail service between Antwerp (calling at Central and Berchem stations) and South station, with a connecting buslink to, which runs twice every hour on working days. The runway has increased in length, and there is now direct connectivity to Spain, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, and Greece from the city of Antwerp.

Politics City council The current city council was elected in the. October 2018 elections have resulted in a deadlock where the current Mayor Mr Bart De Wever has an option of leading a coalition with only the Groen party, or with a multi party coalition with the Open-Vld, CD&V and Sp.a parties. The current majority consists of N-VA, CD&V and Open Vld, led by mayor (N-VA). Party Seats (N-VA) 23 (sp.a) 12 (CD&V) 5 5 (PVDA) 4 4 (Open Vld) 2 Total 55 Former mayors. Official poster of the in Antwerp. Antwerp held the, which were the first games after the and also the only ones to be held in Belgium. The events took place in the streets of the city., currently playing in the, were founded in 1880 and is known as 'The Great Old' for being the first club registered to the in 1895.

Since 1998, the club has taken players on loan in an official partnership. Another club in the city was, founded in 1899 by former Royal Antwerp players. They played at the, the main venue of the 1920 Olympics. Nowadays plays at the Olympisch Stadion in the. The play in and play in the. For the year 2013, Antwerp was awarded the title of.

Antwerp hosted the. Antwerp hosted the start of stage 3 of the on 6 July 2015. Higher education. Main building of the Middelheim campus at the. Antwerp has a university and several colleges.

The ( Universiteit Antwerpen) was established in 2003, following the merger of the RUCA, UFSIA and UIA institutes. Their roots go back to 1852. The University has approximately 13,000 registered students, making it the third-largest university in Flanders, as well as 1,800 foreign students. It has 7 faculties, spread over four campus locations in the city centre and in the south of the city. The city has several colleges, including Charlemagne University College ( Karel de Grote Hogeschool), Plantin University College ( Plantijn Hogeschool), and Artesis University College ( Artesis Hogeschool). Artesis University College has about 8,600 students and 1,600 staff, and Charlemagne University College has about 10,000 students and 1,300 staff.

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Beth HaKnesset Portugeese Hoveniersstraat 32 2018 Antwerp, Belgium Jewish quarter of Antwerp The last real shtetl in western Europe, Antwerp is known for its Orthodox Jews and its diamonds industry. Approximately 80% of Antwerp’s Jewish population makes a living from the diamond industry. More than half the world production of diamonds passes through these few streets near Centraal Station. The diamond centers, which can be visited, also serve as meeting places where ongoing debate takes place over the social, cultural, and political issues affecting the Jewish community. The synagogues There are six Ashkenazic rite synagogues in Antwerp. The biggest is, whose world-famous cantor is Benjamin Muller.

The Shromei ha-Das (Guardians of the Law) Synagogue, with over 6000 members, and the Israelitische Gemeente van Antwerpen, founded in 1904, represent the city’s Jewish community. Next come the more Orthodox communities, united under the. This includes all the current in the Hasidic movement, such as the Satmaer, the Gourer, and the Sanzer.

In Europe, only London’s Stamford Hill can offer comparable diversity. The Sephardim meet in their synagogue opposite the Diamond Exchange.

Antwerp’s (Beth HaKnesset Portugeese) includes some 300 families and has been swollen by the arrival of numerous Israelis. A plaque on an outside wall commemorates the victims of the 1987 terrorist attack, which was claimed by a Palestinian group. The Kosher pleasures of Yiddish Town Yiddish Town, also known as “Pelikan”, from the name of one of its main streets, is located around Centraal Station. Here, at the back of the houses or in arcades, you can find various restaurants and delicatessens usually bearing the name of the family owners.

Apart from USA Pizza on the Isabellalei, none of them have views onto the street, but all offer prayer books., located in the Diamond Exchange, is exclusively for employees and clients of the Diamantkring (Diamond Circle). The cooking is glat kosher -dairy products only. Breakfast is served until 10.30 AM. Throughout the day, you can enjoy drinks and pastries in the diamond merchants’ hall outside the restaurant.

Walking around here, one would not guess that access to the is through the butcher shop. This leads to a galleried yard at the back of which stands a small modern restaurant. The cloakroom, where long traditional coats, black hats, and prayer books are left by the tables, gives an idea of the place’s great orthodoxy. Also worth noting is the excellent.

Located in the Diamond District, this is Benelux’s one and only kosher Chinese restaurant. Antwerp has a large number of butcher shops, bakeries, and stores specializing in typical Jewish products. Be sure to stock up some cakes and pastries at.