Antwerp

Antwerp, a large fortified trading city in Belgium, on the Scheldt, 50 m. from the sea, with a beautiful Gothic cathedral, the spire 402 ft. high; the burial-place of Rubens; has a large picture-gallery full of the works of the Dutch and Flemish artists.

Population (circa 1900) given as 240,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)