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ZEEHAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 965 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ZEEHAN , a See also:

town of See also:Montagu See also:county, See also:Tasmania, 225 M. See also:direct N.W. of See also:Hobart, on the Little See also:Henty See also:river. Pop. (1901) 5014. It is an important railway centre, and from it radiate lines to Strahan, its See also:port on the See also:Macquarie See also:Harbour, to Dundas, to Williamsford; Ind to Burnie, where connexion is made to 4 Hadrach, i.e the See also:Assyrian Hatarika, apparently denotes a See also:district S. of Hamath (between See also:Palmyra and the Mediterranean). F See also:Wellhausen, See also:Sketch of the See also:History of See also:Israel and See also:Judah, pp. 137, 139: See also:Launceston and Hobart. The town is lighted by See also:electricity having received civic rights in the 13th See also:century, :and from See also:time and has an See also:academy of See also:music and a See also:state-aided school of mines. to time See also:Roman remains and other antiquities have been See also:dog out of the sands. Between Domburg and the See also:village of Westkapelle there stretches the famous Westkapelle See also:sea-See also:dike. The mainland of See also:Zeeland—See also:Flanders was formerly also composed of numerous islands which were gradually See also:united by the See also:accumulation of mud and See also:sand, and in this way many once flourishing commercial towns, such as Sluis and Aardenburg, were reduced in importance. The famous See also:castle of Sluis, built in 1385, was partly blown up by the See also:French in 1794, and totally demolished in 1818. Yzendyke represents a Hanse town which flourished in the 13th century and was gradually engulfed by the sea. Similarly the See also:original port of Breskens was destroyed by inundations in the 15th and 16th centuries.

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modern town See also:rose into importance in the 19th century on See also:account of its See also:good harbour. The old towns of Axel and Halst were formerly important fortresses, and as, such were frequently besieged in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Ter Neuzen was strongly fortified in 1833—39, and has a flourishing transit See also:trade, as the port of See also:Ghent, by the See also:canal constructed in 1825—27.

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