Boats on the Rokin in Amsterdam in the evening
The oldest mentions of the name Rokin date from 1559 (as Ruck-in), 1563 (Rock Inne) and 1564 ('t Rockin). The name indicated the quay that had just been built on the west side of the then Amstel River, just south of Dam Square. For this, the buildings that had previously stood right up to the water of the Amstel had to 'move in'. There is no historical evidence for the well-known story that Rokin is a corruption of Rak-in.
Rak is the name for a straight stretch of canal, but that word has never been changed to skirt anywhere in the Netherlands and there is never a preposition or adverb pasted behind it. The water is only sometimes called Rokin since the seventeenth century.
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