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Apart from the contemporary Armenian community spread out over the Netherlands , there was an independent Armenian community concentrated in Amsterdam during the 17th and 18th centuries. The Napoleonic wars put an end to the Armenian life in the Netherlands. The city of Amsterdam was almost depopulated after its occupation by the French. A Dutch writer has said in De Amsterdammer, a magazine of the date of August 14th, 1887 that "The story of the Armenian community is a golden page in the history of the city of Amsterdam." In 1713 the city of Amsterdam permitted the Armenians to erect a church of their own. After serving its purpose for about a century and a half, this edifice was closed because of the dwindling of its congregation. In 1874, by order of the Katholikos of Etchmiadzin, the building was sold for 10,000 florins, which was transmitted to him ('A History of Armenia', by Vahan M. Kurkjian, pp. 471). Armenians arrived from Indonesia (the former Dutch Indies in the 1950s), Turkey (1970s), Lebanon (1970s), Iran (1980s), Iraq (early 1990s), Russia and Armenia (1990s). The largest group of Armenians arrived from Turkey (, Dordrecht , The Hague , Leiden and Rotterdam . Armenian church services are held in Amsterdam and Almelo. NOTABLE DUTCH ARMENIANS
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