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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Etymology" 2009.06.13 (05) [EN]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" id=":yi" class="ii gt">
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<div><em>> From:
<span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">M.-L. Lessing</span> <span><<a href="mailto:marless@gmx.de" target="_blank">marless@gmx.de</a>></span><br>> Subject: LL-L "Etymology"
2009.06.13 (03) [EN]<br></em>
<div><em>> ...
 The name seemed so like Mecklen(burg), but the explanation
is quite different!</em></div></div>
<div>Â </div>
<div>I would like to add that there are several (former) municipalities with a
name "<strong>Mechelen</strong>" or alike in the Benelux.</div>
<div>There may have different etymologies,</div>
<div>there also may be occurences for smaller sites (parts of former
municpalities)</div>
<div>Â </div>
<div>A - For Belgium:</div>
<div>In the "Gemeenten van België", Ed. Gemeentekrediet, 1980, 4 vol.:</div>
<div>Â 5 (former) municipalities with a Mechelen-like name are
listed.<br>Unfortunately, the old forms are not always listed.</div>
<div>Â </div>
<div>1 - <strong>Machelen</strong> (NE of Brussels, has absorbed Diegem)</div>
<div>Â </div>
<div>2 - <strong>Machelen</strong> (now absorbed in "Zulte", East
Flanders)<br><strong>Mahlinum</strong> (821-823), <strong>Mageleno</strong>
(847), <strong>Maglina</strong> (966)</div>
<div>Â </div>
<div>3Â <strong>Mechelen</strong> (prov. Antwerp)<br>was an enclave of the
pricipality of Liege, that got somehow independent<br>Important postion in the
Burgondian Netherlands:<br>1473 installation of the Parliament of
Mechelen<br>15th century, after the death of Charles, the court of Margareth of
York moved to Mechelen<br>1504 installation of the "Grote Raad" (High Court) of
the Netherlands<br>1530 after the death of Margareth of Austria, the government
relocated to Brussels<br>1559 capital of the new archbishopric</div>
<div>Â </div>
<div>4 - <strong>Mechelen-aan-de-Maas</strong> (prov. Limburg, now part of
"Maasmechelen", a new name)</div>
<div>Â </div>
<div>5 - <strong>Mechelen-Bovelingen</strong> (prov. Limburg, now part of
"Heers")<br>old names in Dutch: <strong>Mecheln</strong>,
<strong>Quaedmechelen</strong><br>in French: <strong>Ma(r)lines</strong></div>
<div>Â </div>
<div>B - On the web:</div>
<div>Â </div>
<div>1 - <a href="http://www.machelen.be/" target="_blank">http://www.machelen.be/</a><br>2 - <a href="http://www.zulte.be/WWW/gemeente/g3/35.html" target="_blank">http://www.zulte.be/WWW/gemeente/g3/35.html</a><br>3
- <a href="http://www.mechelen.be/" target="_blank">http://www.mechelen.be/</a><br>4 - <a href="http://www.maasmechelen.be/" target="_blank">http://www.maasmechelen.be/</a><br>5 - <a href="http://www.heers.be/" target="_blank">http://www.heers.be</a></div>
<div>Â </div>
<div>C - For the Netherlands (Van Berkel, Nederlandse plaatsnamen);</div>
<div>Â </div>
<div>6 - <strong>Mechelen </strong>(Limburg, now part of
"Gulpen-Wittem"):<br>1133 <strong>de Mechlum;</strong> 14th c.
<strong>Mechlen,</strong> supposed etym. <strong>*magalunas</strong></div>
<div>Â </div>
<div>7 - <strong>Megchelen</strong> (Gelderland, now part of"Oude
IJsselstreek")<br>1138, <strong>Mehla</strong>, 1218 <strong>in silva
Mehtlo</strong>, 1218 <strong>Mehtlo, Mechtlo</strong>, 1357-1365
<strong>Meggele</strong></div>
<div>Â </div>
<div>D - On the web:</div>
<div>Â </div>
<div>6 - <a href="http://www.gulpen-wittem.nl/" target="_blank">http://www.gulpen-wittem.nl</a><br>7 - <a href="http://www.oude-ijsselstreek.nl/" target="_blank">http://www.oude-ijsselstreek.nl/</a></div>
<div>Â </div>
<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Roger<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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