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  • Dimitrij Rupel, the Foreign Minister, said that France and Slovenia were co-operating well.

    Archive 2008-01-01 2008

  • Dimitrij Rupel, the Foreign Minister, said that France and Slovenia were co-operating well:

    France Proposes, France Disposes 2008

  • Dimitrij Rupel, the Foreign Minister, said that France and Slovenia were co-operating well:

    Archive 2007-12-30 2007

  • Any armies approaching from the south must cross the rivers Rupel and Nethe, which practically, in the shape of a semicircle, swing around the city to the south at a distance varying from about six to twelve miles.

    The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 12) The War Begins, Invasion of Belgium, Battle of the Marne Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902

  • Outside of this circle and in the south, outside of the Nethe-Rupel line, there is another complete circle of nineteen even stronger forts, at a distance from the city varying between five and ten miles.

    The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 12) The War Begins, Invasion of Belgium, Battle of the Marne Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902

  • The wind served us well up the Scheldt and thereafter up the Rupel; and we were running pretty free when we began to sight the brickyards of Boom, lying for a long way on the right bank of the river.

    An Inland Voyage 1878

  • The wind served us well up the Scheldt and thereafter up the Rupel, and we were running pretty free when we began to sight the brickyards of Boom, lying for a long way on the right bank of the river.

    The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • The wind served us well up the Scheldt and thereafter up the Rupel; and we were running pretty free when we began to sight the brickyards of Boom, lying for a long way on the right bank of the river.

    An Inland Voyage Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • They traversed two leagues in three hours, which brought the adventurous band to the banks of the Rupel, along which a stony road ran; but here danger succeeded to difficulty, and two or three horses lost their footing on the slimy stones, and rolled with their riders into the still rapid waters of the river.

    The Forty-Five Guardsmen Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • Berti, and the young Count Mansfeld, were also present, was the last that the two friends ever held, and took place in Villebroeck, a village on the Rupel, between Brussels and Antwerp.

    History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 04 Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

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