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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 332 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GRAMMONT (the Flemish name Gheeraardsbergen more clearly reveals its • etymology . Gerardi-mons)  , a
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town in East Flanders, Belgium, near the meeting point with the provinces of Brabant and Hainaut . It is on the Dender almost due south of Alost, and is chiefly famous because the charter of Grammont given by Baldwin VI., count of Flanders, in A.D . Io68 was the first of its kind . This charter has been styled " the most ancient written monument of
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civil and criminal
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laws in Flanders." The
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modern town is a busy
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industrial centre . Pop . (1904) 12,835 .

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