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    Ghent (Dutch: Gent [ɣɛnt] ; French: Gand [ɡɑ̃] ; historically known as Gaunt in English) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium...
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    Ghent University (Dutch: Universiteit Gent, abbreviated as UGent) is a public research university located in Ghent, Belgium. Located in Flanders, Ghent...
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    The Ghent Altarpiece, also called the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (Dutch: De aanbidding van het Lam Gods), is a very large and complex 15th-century polyptych...
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    Willem Joseph van Ghent (14 May 1626 – 7 June 1672) was a Dutch States Navy officer and nobleman. His surname is also sometimes rendered Gendt or Gent;...
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    Justus van Gent or Joos van Wassenhove (c. 1410 – c. 1480) was an Early Netherlandish painter, perhaps from Ghent, who after training and working in Flanders...
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    HNLMS Van Ghent (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Van Ghent) (originally named De Ruyter) was an Admiralen-class destroyer built for the Royal Netherlands Navy in the 1920s...
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    Catholic Church in Ghent, Belgium. The 89-meter-tall Gothic building is the seat of the Diocese of Ghent and is named for Saint Bavo of Ghent. It contains the...
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    and Willem Joseph van Ghent. The Dutch had hoped to repeat the success of the Raid on the Medway and a frigate squadron under Van Ghent sailed up the Thames...
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    the English ships. The Dutch, under nominal command of Willem Joseph van Ghent and Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter, over several days bombarded...
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    The Wise Man and the Brewer of Ghent, was a Flemish statesman and political leader. Jacob Van Artevelde was born in Ghent of a wealthy commercial family...
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    The Belfry of Ghent (Dutch: Belfort van Gent) is one of three medieval towers that overlook the old city centre of Ghent, Belgium; the other two belonging...
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    place (e.g. Willem van Oranje "William of [the] Orange [family]"; Jan van Ghent "John [who hails] from Ghent"). The preposition "van" is the most widely...
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    more luxurious house in the Korte Nieuwstraat called the Stadt van Ghent (City of Ghent). His artistic talent was evident very early. When he was 10 years...
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    Commodore Richard Beach and the Dutch States Navy under Willem Joseph van Ghent destroyed six ships of the Barbary pirates near Cape Spartel. During the...
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  • Van Gent is a Dutch toponymic surname indicating an origin in the city Ghent, East Flanders. A variant spelling is Van Ghent. People with this name include:...
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    were not, "in spite of their apparent opposition", in conflict. Dorothy van Ghent, however, refers to "a tension between two kinds of reality" in the novel:...
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    Regiment de Marine. The first commander of the corps was Willem Joseph van Ghent. The Dutch had successfully used conventional troops embarked on ships...
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    of colour in Italian Renaissance art. Hugo van der Goes was likely born in Ghent or in the vicinity of Ghent around the year 1440. Nothing is known with...
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    had invented oil painting. His brother Hubert van Eyck collaborated on Jan's most famous works, the Ghent Altarpiece, generally art historians believe...
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    The Ghent–Terneuzen Canal (Dutch: Kanaal van Gent naar Terneuzen), also known as the "Sea Canal" (Zeekanaal) is a canal linking Ghent in Belgium to the...
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    The Ghent International Exposition of 1913 (Dutch: Wereldtentoonstelling van 1913 Gent, French: Exposition universelle et internationale de 1913 Gand)...
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    Lode Van Hecke who was appointed by pope Francis in 2019. The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels. Pharaildis Bavo of Ghent Livinus...
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    the Oultreman of Ghent (or Woutreman van Ghent, in Dutch) – the family origins in Ghent are well documented. Born Woutre van Ghent (1214–1261), he was...
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    representing the "Communion of the Apostles" was commissioned to Justus van Ghent and finished in 1474). Uccello's predella is composed of six meticulous...
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    marble instead of the black rubber Van de Velde originally intended. He was also involved in the construction of the Ghent University Hospital. He died, aged...
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    casket above the portal of Saint Bavo of Ghent. Van Vaernewijck also records the local tradition that Jan van Eyck was trained by his brother, though when...
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    a Dutch fleet was assembled in the Texel under the command of Willem van Ghent. One of the motives was to destroy the Scottish privateering fleet in...
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    Fort Amsterdam, in Willemstad, on 8 June. In 1940, she and her sister Van Ghent guarded five German cargo ships. The ships were relieved by the cruiser...
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  • Lynx Vos Panter Admiralen class Van Ghent (ex-De Ruyter) Evertsen Kortenaer Piet Hein Van Galen Witte de With Banckert Van Nes Gerard Callenburgh class Gerard...
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    Belgium. The Ghent–Terneuzen Canal passes through Sas van Gent, and at that point there was a lock in the canal. The name of the village, Sas van Gent, means...
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