Dunkirk
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- Names
Dunkerque
Dunkirk
Dunkirchen
Dunquerque
Dunkerk
Dunkerkia
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Formerly ruled by Burgundians and Spanish as part of Flanders; taken by British and French who defeated Spanish 1658; awarded to England 1659; sold to France 1662; piracy center 17th century; its fortifications demolished 1713 and later rebuilt 18th century.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Baedekers: France (1991); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Concise Description of Flanders [web site] (2002); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984); Times Atlas of the World (1990); Times Atlas of the World (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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