. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. ed itto his younger brother, Francis ofAnjou. After his death it was reunitedto the crown. Henry IV. transferred theduchy in 1595 to the Duke of Wiirttem-berg, who willed it in 1608 to his son,from whom, in 1612, Marie de Medici pur-chased it back for the crown. The titleis now borne by a grandson of DukePhilippe de Nemours. See Bourbon. ALENCON, a city of France, and cap-ital of tfie department of Orne, on theSarthe. Its Cathedral of Notre Dame,built between 1553 and 16
. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. ed itto his younger brother, Francis ofAnjou. After his death it was reunitedto the crown. Henry IV. transferred theduchy in 1595 to the Duke of Wiirttem-berg, who willed it in 1608 to his son,from whom, in 1612, Marie de Medici pur-chased it back for the crown. The titleis now borne by a grandson of DukePhilippe de Nemours. See Bourbon. ALENCON, a city of France, and cap-ital of tfie department of Orne, on theSarthe. Its Cathedral of Notre Dame,built between 1553 and 1617, is in theGothic style. The Hotel de Ville wasbuilt in 1783 on the site of the ancientcastle of the dukes of Alen^on, two ofthe towers of which are still preservedand used as prisons. There are manu-factories of muslin, linen, leather, anda lace called point dAlen^on. It has alsoa lively trade in horses. During theFianco-Prussian War the city was cap-tured by the Grand-Duke of Mecklen-burg. Pop. about 17,500. ALEPPO, a city of Turkey in Asia,in northern Syria, on the Koeik river,71 miles E. of the Mediterranean. The. ALEPPO Twice he was condemned to death on foundation of Aleppo dates back to about account of supposed intrigues in favorof England against Charles VIII. andLouis XL, but was pardoned, and diedin 1476. Ren^, son of Jean IV., arousedsuspicion, and Louis XL, in 1481, hadhim confined three months in an ironcage. After the death of Louis XI. he 2,000 years B. c. Its first name wasKhaieb, which the Greeks called the fall of Palmyra, it became ofgreat importance. Seleucos Nikatorbeautified the city and called it Beroyia,which name it bore till its conquest bythe Arabs; then the name was Haleb, ALESSANDKIA 105 ALEXANDER which the Italians called Aleppo. It wasconquered by the Saracens in 636; wasthe seat of a Seljuk sultanate in the11th and 12th centuries; was plunderedby Timur in 1402; in the 15th centurybecame the great emporium of trade be-tween Europe
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