Dendermonde

Dendermonde (Fr. Termonde), a town of Belgium, in the province of East Flanders, situated at the confluence of the Dender and the Scheldt, 18 miles E. of Ghent by rail. The principal buildings are the town-house and the church of Notre Dame, containing two pictures by Van Dyck. The manufactures are linens, cottons, and beer. Louis XIV. besieged it in vain in 1667, but Marlborough succeeded in taking it in 1706. Its fortifications, destroyed in 1784, were restored in 1822. Pop. 8883.