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