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APELDOORN

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 160 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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APELDOORN  , a

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town in the province of Gelderland, Holland, and a junction station 261 m. by
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rail W. of
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Amersfoort . It is connected by canal north and south with
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Zwolle and Zutphen respectively . Pop . (1900) 25,834 . The. neighbourhood of Apeldoorn is very picturesque and well wooded . The
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Protestant church was restored after a fire in s89o . Close by is the favourite country-seat of the royal
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family of Holland called the Loo . It was originally a hunting-lodge of the dukes of Gelderland, but in its
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present form
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dates chiefly from the time of the Stadtholder William III., king of England . Apeldoorn possesses large paper-mills .

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