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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 789 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAMME , a decayed See also:

city of See also:Belgium, 5 M. N.E. of See also:Bruges, once among the most important commercial ports of See also:Europe. It is situated on the See also:canal from Bruges to See also:Sluys (Ecluse), but in the See also:middle ages a navigable channel or See also:river called the Zwyn gave See also:ships See also:access to it from the See also:North See also:Sea. The See also:great See also:naval See also:battle of Sluys, in which See also:Edward III. destroyed the See also:French See also:fleet and secured the command of the channel, was fought in the See also:year 1340 at the mouth of the Zwyn. About 1395 this channel began to show signs of silting up, and during the next See also:hundred years the See also:process proved rapid. In 1490 a treaty was signed at Damme between the See also:people of Bruges and the See also:archduke See also:Maximilian, and very soon after this event the channel became completely closed up, and the See also:foreign See also:merchant See also:gilds or " nations" See also:left the See also:place for See also:Antwerp. This signified the See also:death of the See also:port and was indirectly fatal to Bruges as well. The See also:marriage of See also:Charles the Bold and See also:Margaret of See also:York, See also:sister of Edward IV., was celebrated at Damme on the and of See also:July 1468. It will give some See also:idea of the importance of the See also:town to mention that it had its own maritime See also:law, known as See also:Droit maritime de Damme. The new See also:ship canal from Zeebrugge will not revive the See also:ancient port, as it follows a different route, leaving Damme and Ecluse quite untouched. Damme, although See also:long neglected, preserves some remains of its former prosperity, thanks to its remoteness from the See also:area of See also:international strife in the See also:Low Countries. The See also:tower of Notre See also:Dame, dating from 118o, is a landmark across the See also:dunes, and the See also:church behind it, although a See also:shell, merits inspection.

Out of a portion of the ancient markets a hotel- de-See also:

vine of modest dimensions has been constructed, and in the See also:hospital of St See also:Jean are a few pictures. Camille See also:Lemonnier has given in one of his Causeries a striking picture of this faded See also:scene of former greatness, now a solitude in which the few residents seem spectres rather than living figures.

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