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- proper noun A region to the east of the city of
Antwerp ,Belgium (in the provinces of Antwerp andLimburg ), and southwest ofEindhoven , theNetherlands (in the province ofNorth Brabant ).
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This we find is the line of the principal coal deposits of Belgium which are located in Liege, Huy, Mons and Charleroi and the newly-discovered deposits to the north of Liege, known as the Campine field.
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From very small beginnings the abbey grew to be in time one of the most important in Belgium, making its spiritual and social influence felt in a large district called Campine, now in north-east Belgium and south Holland, then a wild district in which but scanty provision was found for the spiritual and social needs of its scattered inhabitants.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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In 1906 his was sent to the country, to a little village in Campine near Holland.
Henri Michaux greenintegerblog 2008
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The rising, begun in the Pays de Waes, spread to Brabant, and especially to the Campine.
Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day Emile Cammaerts 1915
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On October 23rd he occupied Hoogstraeten, in the Campine, and issued a manifesto in which Joseph II was declared to have forfeited his rights.
Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day Emile Cammaerts 1915
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Friar Minor, lector in theology and exegete; b. at Rethy, in Campine
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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In 1849, the unimproved portion of the Campine was estimated at little less than three hundred and fifty thousand acres.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 05 (historical) 1874
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The quantity of land annually reclaimed on the Campine is stated at about 4,000 acres.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 05 (historical) 1874
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Canals for navigation and irrigation have been constructed through the Campine, and it is said that its barren sands, improved at an expense of one hundred dollars per acre, yield, from the second year, a return of twenty-five dollars to the acre.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 05 (historical) 1874
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In the northern part of Belgium, and extending across the confines of Holland, is another very similar heath plain, called the Campine.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 05 (historical) 1874
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