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TERMONDE (Flemish Dendermonde)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 645 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TERMONDE (Flemish Dendermonde)  , a
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town of Belgium in the province of East Flanders, situated 25 m . S.W. of Antwerp at the junction of the Dender and the Scheldt . Pop . (1904) Io,141 . It is still one of the five fortified places in Belgium, although its defences are not modernized . It was before Termonde that Louis XIV. in 1667 was compelled to beat an ignominious retreat through its defenders opening the dikes and flooding the country . The church of Notre Dame contains two
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fine pictures by
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Van Dyck, and one masterpiece of Crayer's . The fonts are of the 12th century .

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