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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 692 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LIMBURG  , the

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south-easternmost and smallest
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province of
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Holland, bounded N. by
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Gelderland, N.W. by
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North
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Brabant, S.W. by the Belgian province of Limburg, and S. by that of
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Liege, and E. by
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Germany . Its
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area is 85o sq. m., and its
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population in 1900 was 281,934 . It is watered by the
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Meuse (
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Maas) which forms
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part of its south-western boundary (with
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Belgium) and then flows through its
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northern portion, and by such tributaries as the Geul and Roer (
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Ruhr) . Its
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capital is
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Maastricht, which gives name to one of the two administrative districts into which it is divided, the other being
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Roermond .

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