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Furnes (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 51 04 20 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 51.0723 decimal degrees |
| Long: 002 39 45 E degrees minutes |
Long: 2.6624 decimal degrees |
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Note: The town lies at the junction of four canals, northeast of Dunkerque in the Belgian province of West-Vlaanderen. Founded by Baldwin I of Flanders around 870, it was a strategic town of the Spanish Netherlands. During the First World War it was the chief town of unoccupied Belgium. It is famous for its annual processions of the Holy Cross in May, and of the Penitents in July, both dating from medieval times. It was a significant amount of surviving historic architecture, including the 15th-century Gothic-style Spanish Pavilion, the Meat Market built1615 and now a theatre, the 15th-century St. Nicholas Church with its massive tower, the Spanish Guard House of1636, the Gothic Belfry, built 1628, burned 1940, since restored, and St. Walburga's Church, begun 1230-8. The 2003 estimated population was 11,800. |
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| Veurne (preferred,C,V,German-P,U,N)
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| Veurne (Dutch-P,U,N)
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| Furnes (C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Furnes (French-P,U,N)
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| Furnae (H,O,Latin,U,N)
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Furnes (inhabited place) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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founded ca. 870 |
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