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KEMPEN , a See also:

town in the Prussian See also:Rhine See also:Province, 40 M. N. of See also:Cologne by the railway to Zevenaar. Pop. (I goo), 6319. It has a See also:monument to See also:Thomas a Kempis, who was See also:born there. The See also:industries are considerable, and include See also:silk-See also:weaving, See also:glass-making and the manufacture of See also:electrical plant. Kempen belonged in the See also:middle ages to the archbishopric of Cologne and received civic rights in 1294. It is memorable as the See also:scene of a victory gained, on the 17th of See also:January 1642, by the See also:French and Hessians over the Imperialists. See Terwelp, See also:Die Stadt Kempen (Kempen, 1894), and Niessen, Heimatkunde See also:des Kreises Kempen (See also:Crefeld, 1895).

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