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BLANKENBERGHE

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 41 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BLANKENBERGHE  , a seaside watering-

place on the North Sea in the province of West Flanders, Belgium, 12 M . N.E. of Ostend, and about 9 M . N.W. of Bruges, with which it is connected by railway . It is more bracing than Ostend, and has a
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fine parade over a mile in length . During the season, which extends from
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June to September, it receives a large number of visitors, probably over 6o,000 altogether, from Germany as well as from Belgium . There is a small fishing
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port as well as a considerable fishing-
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fleet . Two miles north of this place along the
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dunes is Zeebrugge, the point at which the new
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ship-canal from Bruges enters the North Sea . Fixed population (19o4) 5925 .

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