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Bible Encyclopedias
Menin
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(Flemish Meenen), a town of Belgium in the province of West Flanders situated on the Lys 7 m. S. of Courtrai. Pop. (1904), 1 9,377. It manufactures linen and flannel, and in the neighbourhood are extensive tobacco plantations. It was first xviii. 5 fortified in 1578, and in 1685 Vauban made it one of the strongest places on the French frontier, but the fortifications were razed in 1748 by the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Menin'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/m/menin.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Menin'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/m/menin.html. 1910.
