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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 397 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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HERSTAL, or HERISTAL

HERSTAL, or HERISTAL , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Belgium, less than 2 M. N. of See also:

Liege and practically one of its suburbs. The name is supposed to be derived from Heerstelle, i.e. " Permanent See also:

CAMP (from Lat. campus, field)

Camp." The second See also:

PIPPIN, or PEPIN

Pippin was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born here, and this See also:

mayor of the See also:

PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace acquired the See also:

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control of the See also:

KINGDOM

kingdom of the See also:

Franks. His See also:

GRAND

grand-son, Pippin the See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

Short, died at Herstal in A.D. 768, and it disputes with See also:

AIX

Aix la Chapelle the See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of being the birthplace of See also:

Charlemagne. It is now a very active centre of See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron and See also:

STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

steel manufactures. The Belgian See also:

NATIONAL

national small arms factory and See also:

CANNON (a word common to Romance languages, from the Lat. canna, a reed, tube, with the addition of the augmentative termination -on, -one)

cannon foundry are fixed here. Pop. (1904) 20,114.

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