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| | Articles - Antwerp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | The Bourse or exchange, which claims to be the first distinguished by the former name in Europe, is a fine new building finished in 1872, on the site of the old Bourse erected in 1531 and destroyed by fire in 1858. |
 | | A curious museum is the Plantin-Moretus Museum, the house of the great printer Christoffel Plantijn and his successor Jan Moretus, which stands exactly as it did in the time of the latter. |
 | | the Spaniards, the Danes and the Hansa together, the Italians, the English, the Portuguese and the Germans, were named at Antwerp, and over 1000 foreign merchants were resident in the city. |
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