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MAASSLUIS

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 188 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MAASSLUIS , a

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RIVER

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PORT

port of

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Holland, in the

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South Holland, on the New Waterway, 10 m. by

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RAIL

rail W. of

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ROTTERDAM

Rotterdam . Pop . (1903), 8o11 . It

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rose into importance as a fishing

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HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour towards the end of the 16th

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CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, and its prosperity rapidly increased after the opening of the New Waterway (the

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MAAS, JOSEPH (1847-1886)

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SHIP

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canal) from Rotterdam to the

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sea . The fort ,erected here in 1572 by

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Philip of Marnix,

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lord of St Aldegonde, was captured by the

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SPANISH

Spanish in 1573 .

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