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Brussels (French: Bruxelles,
pronounced [bʁysɛl] or [bʁyksɛl] ; Dutch:
Brussel [ˈbrʏsəl] ),
officially the Brussels-Capital
Region (French: Région de Bruxelles-Capitale;...
- to 2.1 m)
beneath the
modern street.
Breuers Straet (renamed
Straet van de
Graft in 1655 and
Brouwer Straet by 1668) was
named after the
breweries along...
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Johannes Strad**** (Dutch Jan van der
Straet or
Italian Giovanni Stradano; 1523 – 2
November 1605) was a
Flemish artist active mainly in 16th-century Florence...
- Stratton, Stretton, Stratford, and Stretford,
derived from Old
English strǣt / strēt (ultimately from
Latin strata,
meaning 'paved road'). The route...
- 2nd-century list. The
modern name
instead derives from the Old
English Wæcelinga
Stræt, from a time when "street" (Latin: via strata)
referred to any
paved road...
- (Lindum Colonia) and York (Ebora****). The Old
English name was
Earninga Strǣt (1012),
named after a
tribe called the Earningas, who
inhabited a district...
-
paved by the
Romans and used by the Anglo-Saxons who
named it Wæcelinga
Stræt (Watling Street). It is now part of the A2, a
major road from
London to...
- 1633 map of
Strait of Magellan,
showing Strait Le
Maire at the right,
marked Fretum le
Maire (Latin) and
Straet Le
Maire (Dutch)...
-
already planned this road in 1653, and
wrote about it in his work the Zee-
straet. The road was made
according to Huygens' design. In 1676 the
second edition...
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published by
Philips Galle after a
design by the
Flemish artist Jan van der
Straet,
depicts four
servants preparing a
concoction of gum guia**** for
their wealthy...
