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Mechelen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmɛxələ(n)] ⓘ; French: Malines ⓘ; historically known as Mechlin in English [n 1]) is a city and municipality in the province of Antwerp in the Flemish Region of Belgium.
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For most of its history, what is now Belgium was either a part of a larger territory, such as the Carolingian Empire, or divided into a number of smaller states, prominent among them being the Duchy of Lower Lorraine, the Duchy of Brabant, the County of Flanders, the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, the County of Namur, the County of Hainaut and the County of Luxembourg.
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The Arrondissement of Mechelen (Dutch: Arrondissement Mechelen; French: Arrondissement de Malines) is one of the three administrative arrondissements in the Province of Antwerp, Belgium. It is both an administrative and a judicial arrondissement , as the territory for both coincides.
By the time of the liberation and the end of the Holocaust in Belgium, only 1,395 of them had survived. After the war, the former infantry barracks was partially renovated as civil housing; the Flemish Government , Province of Antwerp and the City of Mechelen financing the purchase of the ground floor and the basement of the right wing.
The Mechelen transit camp, officially SS-Sammellager Mecheln (lit. ' SS Assembly Camp Mechelen ' ) in German , also known as the Dossin barracks , was a detention and deportation camp established in a former army barracks at Mechelen in German-occupied Belgium .
The Brusselpoort (English: Brussels Gate) is the sole remaining city gate of the original twelve gates of Mechelen, Belgium. This imposing structure dates from the 13th century. Because of its exceptional height, towering above the other gates, it was also called the Overste Poort ("Superior Gate"). In the 16th century, the towers were lowered ...