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LIMBURG, or LIMEOURG

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 692 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LIMBURG, or LIMEOURG  , the smallest of the nine provinces of Belgium, occupying the north-east corner of the
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kingdom . It represents only a portion of the ancient duchy of Limburg (see above) . The
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part east of the Meuse was transferred to Holland by the
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London
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conference, and a further portion was attached to the province of Liege including the old capital now called
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Dolhain . Much of the province is represented by the wild heath
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district called the Campine, recently discovered to form an extensive
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coal-field . The operations for working it were only begun in 1906 . North-west of Hasselt is Beverloo, where all the Belgian troops go through a course of instruction annually . Among the towns are Hasselt, the capital, St Trond and Looz . From the last named is derived the title of the
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family known as the dukes of Looz, whose antiquity equals that of the
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extinct reigning family of Limburg itself . The title of duc de Looz is one of the four existing ducal titles in the
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Netherlands, the other three being d'Arenberg, Croy and d'Ursel . Limburg contains 603,085 acres or 942 sq. m . In 1904 the population was 255,359, giving an
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average of 271 per sq. m .

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