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| | Noord-Brabant -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
 | | English North Brabant provincie (province), second largest of The Netherlands, extending northward from the Belgium border, between the provinces of Zeeland (west) and Limburg (east), to the Maas (Meuse) and Merwede rivers. |
 | | Under the dukes of Brabant the city prospered as a center of the cloth trade. |
 | | Centred in Louvain (now Leuven) and Brussels, it was a division of the former duchy of Lower Lorraine, which was split up into Brabant, Luxembourg, Hainaut, Namur, and other small feudal states in the 11th century. |
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