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HALLUIN

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 863 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HALLUIN  , a frontier

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town of
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northern France, in the department of
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Nord, near the right
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bank of the Lys, 14 M . N. by E. of
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Lille by
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rail . Pop . (1906) town, 11,670; commune, 16,158 . Its church is of
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Gothic architecture . The manufactures comprise
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linen and cotton goods, chairs and rubber goods, and
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brewing and tanning are carried on; there is a board of trade arbitration . The
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family of Halluin is mentioned as early as the 13th century . In 1587 the title of duke and peer of the
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realm was granted to it, but in the succeeding century it became
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extinct .

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