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GRAVELINES (Flem. Gravelinghe) , a fortified seaport town of northern France, in the department of Nord and arrondissement of Dunkirk, 15 m. S.W. of Dunkirk on the railway to Calais. Pop. (1906) town, 1858; commune, 6284. Gravelines is situated on the Aa, ri m. from its mouth in the North Sea. It is surrounded by a double
trade
paper -manufactories, sugar
chicory
quarter of Petit-Fort-Philippe at the mouth of the Aa, and in the village
east
The canalization of the Aa by a count of Flanders about the middle of the 12th century led to the foundation of Gravelines (grave-linghe, meaning " count 's canal."). In 1558 it was the scene of the signal
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