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Antwerp (Flemish Antwerpen) is a city in northern Belgium. It is notable as a centre of the diamond industry, both for trading and for cutting and polishing. Antwerp is also famous for its seaport with a lot of cargo shipping. It's the heart of the Flemish part of Belgium.

Antwerp is nicknamed The Jerusalem of the West because of it's large orthodox Jewish (hasidic?) community.


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