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Charleroi

(Encyclopedia) Charleroi Charleroi shärlərwäˈ [key], city, Hainaut prov., S Belgium, on the Sambre River and on the…

Devolution, War of

(Encyclopedia) Devolution, War of, 1667–68, undertaken by Louis XIV for the conquest of the Spanish Netherlands. On her marriage to Louis, Marie Thérèse, daughter of Philip IV of Spain, had renounced…