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Bocholt

Bocholt is a town in the Borken district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, near the Dutch border. A town of the Prince-Bishopric of Münster, it was one of the two districts given to the Principality of Salm in 1803 and served as one of its seats of government until France annexed the area in 1810. In the 19th and 20th centuries it was a centre of the textile industry.

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