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