Hasselt; a Belgian town, capital of the province of Limburg, 47 m. NE. of Brussels; distilling, and the manufacture of lace, linen, and tobacco are the staple industries.
Population (circa 1900) given as 13,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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