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Historian Sanderus mockingly called Ninove "the oldest, the naughtiest and the wisest of cities". In his " Flandria Illustrata " from 1644 this sounds like: " Nineveh quattor habet portas. Hae portae, quamvis possint, vix umquam clauduntur: unde vulgari loco ninove dicitur antiquissima, audaccissima, sapientissima ". The oldest, because her name differs only one letter from "Nineveh", at the time the capital of Assyria from the Old Testament. The naughtiest, since, according to legend, she dared to await the enemy with open gates ... The wisest, because her associations had no jester. If necessary, a neighboring town supplied the jester ...

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Source: Geeente Ninove

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Author: Dromos

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Ninove, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium

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