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.
The Population of Belgium (1950 - 2019) chart plots the total population count as of July 1 of each year, from 1950 to 2019. The Yearly Population Growth Rate chart plots the annual percentage changes in population registered on July 1 of each year, from 1951 to 2019. Aug 12, 2018. City in Belgium and the capital of the Antwerp province with a population of. Place to be is Zomerfabriek, Minkelersstraat, 2018 Antwerpen.
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.
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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.