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VILLERS LA VILLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 86 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VILLERS LA VILLE  , a

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town of
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Belgium in the
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province of
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Brabant, 2 M . E. of Quatre
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Bras, with a station on the
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direct
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line from
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Louvain to
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Charleroi . Pop . (1904) 1166 . It is chiefly interesting on
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account of the
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fine ruins of the Cistercian
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abbey of Villers founded in 1147 and destroyed by the
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French republicans in 1795 . In the ruined
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church attached to the abbey are still to be seen the tombstones of several
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dukes of Brabant of the 13th and 14th centuries .

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