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DOLHAIN , the most eastern See also:town of See also:Belgium, situated on the Vesdre, N. E. of See also:Verviers and See also:close to the Prussian frontier. Pop. (1904) 4757• It is quite a See also:modern town, occupying the site of the See also:lower town of the See also:ancient See also:city of See also:Limburg, which was destroyed by See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV. in 1675. On a rocky See also:eminence above Dolhain are still to be seen the See also:fine ruins of the old See also:castle of Limburg, the See also:cradle of the ancient See also:family of that name from which sprang the See also:Luxemburg family and several emperors of See also:Germany. The See also:Gothic See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:George of the 13th See also:century has been restored. At a See also:short distance from Dolhain is the"famous See also:dam of the Gileppe, the vast See also:reservoir constructed to See also:supply Verviers with See also:water See also:free from See also:lime for its See also:cloth manufactures. The See also:aqueduct from Gileppe to Verviers is nearly 51 m. in length.
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