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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAL-MAR |
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MALINES (Flemish, Mechelen, called in the middle ages by the Latin name Mechlinia, whence the spelling Mechlin) , an ancient and important city of Belgium, and the seat since 1559 of the only archbishopric in that country. Pop. (1904), 58,Io1. The name is supposed to be derived from maris Linea, and to indicate that originally the sea came up to it. It is now situated on the Dyle, and is in the province of Antwerp, lying about half-way between Antwerp and Brussels. The chief
capital of Belgiumthe archbishop being the primate of the Catholic Church in that country. The archbishop's palace is in a picturesque situation, and dates
Gothic
original
fools ," because one of the citizens on seeing the moon through the dormer
Ghent
The lordship of Malines was conferred as a separate fief by Pippin the Short on his kinsman Count Adon in 754. In the 9th century Charles the Bald bestowed the fief on the bishop of Liege, and after being shared between Brabant and Flanders it passed into the hands of Philip the Bold, founder of the house
Burgundy
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