Nivelles (Flem. Nyvel), a town in the Belgian province of Brabant, on the Thines, 19 miles by rail S. of Brussels. Its fine Romanesque church (1045) contains the relics of Pepin's daughter, St Gertrude. In 1381 the townsfolk of Ghent were defeated here by Count Louis of Flanders, and 6000 burned in a monastery. Nivelles has manufactures of cotton, paper, lace, &c. Pop. 10,788.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 511
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