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    The City of Brussels is the largest municipality and historical centre of the Brussels-Capital Region, as well as the capital of the Flemish Region (from...
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    is the largest population centre in the region with an estimated 8,040 residents in 2021. Incorporated in 1973, it comprises the former town of Happy Valley...
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  • Central Labrador (category Geography of Newfoundland and Labrador)
    Churchill River, the largest river in Labrador and one of the largest in Canada. The hydroelectric dam at Churchill Falls is the second largest underground power...
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    Mainz and other German cities. Responding to the order, the archbishop of Mainz, the city council of Frankfurt and various German princes tried to intervene...
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    Grenoble (redirect from History of Grenoble)
    prefecture and largest city of the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France. It was the capital of the Dauphiné historical...
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    Brussels (redirect from History of Brussels)
    Forest Brussels is twinned with the following cities: Atlanta, United States Beijing, China Berlin, Germany Breda, Netherlands Casablanca, Morocco Kinshasa...
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    of Bordeaux's international importance over the last 2000 years. Bordeaux is also ranked as a Sufficiency city by the Globalization and World Cities Research...
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    edifice is reputed to be the largest constructed in the 19th century and remains one of the largest of its kind. The total cost of the construction, land,...
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    visitors in all types of accommodation. The largest number of visitors came from the United States, followed by England, Germany and China. The top tourist...
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    Metz (redirect from Cuisine of Metz)
    the seat of the parliament of the Grand Est region. Located near the tripoint along the junction of France, Germany and Luxembourg, the city forms a central...
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    Arcachon (category Port cities and towns on the French Atlantic coast)
    (360 feet) in height, and moving inland at rate of 5 metres (16 feet) a year. Arcachon is one of the largest towns within the Landes forest, alongside Arcachon...
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    tradition of being "airdropped" in a red-leaning city: in 1973, he succeeds to Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier. Because of the emphasis communist cities placed...
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    Labrador (redirect from Coast of Labrador)
    Barbe on the island of Newfoundland, is based in Blanc Sablon, Quebec, near the Labrador border. L'Anse-au-Loup is the largest town on the Labrador Straits...
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    the city. 1686 – 3 September: The Palace of Thurn and Taxis on the Sablon hosts a grand banquet to celebrate the Holy League's victory in the siege of Buda...
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    Alley (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    usually runs between, behind, or within buildings in the older parts of towns and cities. It is also a rear access or service road (back lane), or a path...
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  • realizing that without cannons, the city could not be held. He ordered Joachim Murat to bring the guns from the Sablons artillery park; the Major and his...
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    Grand-Place (category City of Brussels)
    Brussels is the location of the city's Town Hall, and thus its political centre. It also housed the largest marketplace in the city (hence its official names...
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    the capital and largest city of Newfoundland and Labrador, is Canada's 22nd-largest census metropolitan area and home to about 40% of the province's population...
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    Tour & Taxis (category City of Brussels)
    the rest of Europe. The horse-based postal service would be based in Brussels for nearly two centuries before moving to Frankfurt, Germany, in 1704....
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    city, and is currently one of the European cities with the most roadside trees (150,000 units). In 2001 the Institute of Parks and Gardens received ISO...
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  • Georges Mora (category German people of Polish-Jewish descent)
    1913 in Leipzig, Germany, of Jewish Polish heritage. As a young medical student Mora became a member of a communist cell and fled Germany to Paris in 1930...
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    Pauillac (category Communes of Gironde)
    Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. The city is mid-way between Bordeaux and the Pointe de Grave, along the Gironde, the largest estuary in western Europe. The...
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  • Thumbnail for Brabantine Gothic
    Waghemakere families disseminated the style and techniques to cities and towns of the Duchy of Brabant and beyond. For churches and other major buildings...
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    the largest racehorse-training community in France. Chantilly is also home to the Living Museum of the Horse, with stables built by the Princes of Condé...
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    Fontaine, Isère (category Communes of Isère)
    in southeastern France. Part of the Grenoble urban unit (agglomeration), it is the third-largest suburb of the city of Grenoble, and is adjacent to it...
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    player and collector of traditional music and folklore, 79 February 22 – Papa John Creach, blues violinist, 76 February 24 Jean Sablon, French singer, 87...
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  • Thumbnail for Francization of Brussels
    For the arrondissement of Brussels, documents could be requested in Dutch. Nonetheless, by 1900 most large Flemish cities, cities along the language border...
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    Argentan (category Communes of Orne)
    and the seat of two cantons and of an arrondissement in the Orne department in northwestern France. As of 2019, Argentan is the third largest municipality...
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    Albert Gleizes (category School of Paris)
    l’histoire (Paris, 1932) and Homocentrisme (Sablons, 1937). Born Albert Léon Gleizes and raised in Paris, he was the son of a fabric designer who ran a large industrial...
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    Villenave-d'Ornon (category Communes of Gironde)
    France. It is the fourth-largest suburb of the city of Bordeaux, and is located to its south side. Thus, it is a member of the Bordeaux Métropole. Villenave-d'Ornon...
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