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MENIN (Flemish Meenen)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 129 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MENIN (Flemish Meenen)  , a
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town of Belgium in the province of West Flanders situated on the Lys 7 M . S. of Courtrai . Pop . (1904), 19,377 . It manufactures
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linen and
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flannel, and in the neighbourhood are extensive
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tobacco plantations . It was first .1
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Hof Sakkara begins with the
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sixth king of the 1st Dynasty, a fact which may throw some doubt on the supposed foundation of
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Memphis by
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Menes . Until recently he was looked upon as semi-mythical, but the
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discovery of the tombs of many kings of the 1st Dynasty including probably that of Menes himself, as well as an abundance of remains of still earlier ages in
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Egypt has given him a personality . He was probably ruler of Upper Egypt and conquered the
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separate
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kingdom of
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Lower Egypt . See EGYPT; K . Sethe, " Menes and die Grundung von Memphis," in his Untersuchungen zur Geschichte and Alterthumskunde Aegyptens, iii . 121 . (F .

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