Compagnie des Installations Maritimes de Bruges - Gorgeous Canal and Shipping St for Sale

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Compagnie des Installations Maritimes de Bruges - Gorgeous Canal and Shipping St:
$264.00

Issued from Bruges. Printer-Societe St Augustin-Bruges, Belgium. One of the prettiest stocks ever!!! Choice Condition!!! A must for any serious collection. Many Coupons attached. Depicts three scenes of the city of Bruges. Beautiful angel with large anchor at right with enormous port scene at bottom. Bear at top right. Bearer Share for 500 Belgian Francs. Formed under the act dated November 26, 1895 for the construction of ports and a canal on the northern side of Belgium. The company was a major contributor to the development of Bruges-Zeebrugge as a major cargo port of Belgium. Bruges is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country, and the seventh-largest city of the country by population. Along with a few other canal-based northern cities, such as Amsterdam and St Petersburg, it is sometimes referred to as the Venice of the North. Bruges has a significant economic importance, thanks to its port, and was once one of the world\'s chief commercial cities. Bruges is well known as the seat of the College of Europe, a university institute for European studies. Bruges was a location of coastal settlement during prehistory. This Bronze Age and Iron Age settlement is unrelated to medieval city development. In the Bruges area, the first fortifications were built after Julius Caesar\'s conquest of the Menapii in the first century BC, to protect the coastal area against pirates. The Franks took over the whole region from the Gallo-Romans around the 4th century and administered it as the Pagus Flandrensis. The Viking incursions of the ninth century prompted Count Baldwin I of Flanders to reinforce the Roman fortifications; trade soon resumed with England and Scandinavia. Early medieval habitation starts in the 9th and 10th century on the Burgh terrain, probably with a fortified settlement and church. Bruges was a location of coastal settlement during prehistory. This Bronze Age and Iron Age settlement is unrelated to medieval city development. In the Bruges area, the first fortifications were built after Julius Caesar\'s conquest of the Menapii in the first century BC, to protect the coastal area against pirates. The Franks took over the whole region from the Gallo-Romans around the 4th century and administered it as the Pagus Flandrensis. The Viking incursions of the ninth century prompted Count Baldwin I of Flanders to reinforce the Roman Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.