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Antwerp
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Definition:Belgium's second most populous metropolis, after Brussels. A strategic port city at the center of Europe and once the wealthiest city in Europe.
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"[...] Only ask Portugal, Barcelona, and Valencia, where they have been printed, and moreover there is a report that it is being printed at Antwerp, and I am persuaded there will not be a country or language in which there will not be a translation of it."
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sometimes they followed one another like the old riddecks of the Canal-aux-Harengs, at Antwerp, each of which revealed a front, the counterpart of its neighbour.
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours
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It had seemed to me, in the many anxious considerations I had given the point, almost indifferent what port we made for,—Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp,—the place signified little, so that he was out of England.
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Ambroise Paré. The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey (published: Latin in 1579, English in 1649), p.664, https://archive.org/stream/workesofthatfamo00par#page/664/mode/1up
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