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VILVORDE

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 89 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VILVORDE , a See also:

town of See also:Belgium in the See also:province of See also:Brabant, 9 m. N. of See also:Brussels and on the Senne. Pop. (1904) 14,418. The old See also:castle of Vilvorde, which often gave shelter to the See also:dukes of Brabant in their days of trouble, is now used as a See also:prison. The younger See also:Teniers lived and died at a See also:farm outside Vilvorde, and is buried in the See also:parish See also:church of Dry Toren.

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