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MENIN (Flemish Meenen)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 129 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MENIN (Flemish Meenen) , a See also:town of See also:Belgium in the See also:province of See also:West See also:Flanders situated on the Lys 7 M. S. of Courtrai. Pop. (1904), 19,377. It manufactures See also:linen and See also:flannel, and in the neighbourhood are extensive See also:tobacco plantations. It was first .1 See also:Hof Sakkara begins with the See also:sixth See also:king of the 1st See also:Dynasty, a fact which may throw some doubt on the supposed See also:foundation of See also:Memphis by See also:Menes. Until recently he was looked upon as semi-mythical, but the See also:discovery of the tombs of many See also:kings of the 1st Dynasty including probably that of Menes himself, as well as an abundance of remains of still earlier ages in See also:Egypt has given him a See also:personality. He was probably ruler of Upper Egypt and conquered the See also:separate See also:kingdom of See also:Lower Egypt. See EGYPT; K. Sethe, " Menes and See also:die Grundung von Memphis," in his Untersuchungen zur Geschichte and Alterthumskunde Aegyptens, iii. 121. (F.

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