Diksmuide (West-Vlaanderen, Belgium)
Diksmuide (Dixmuiden; French, Dixmude) is a city in West Flanders in Belgium (coodinates: 51° 2′ 0″ N, 2° 52′ 0″ E) with about 15,500 inhabitants (2008), where there was a small Anabaptist church in the 16th century. On 4 March 1581 a conference of Dutch Mennonite Waterlanders, meeting at Amsterdam, decided to elect a preacher at Diksmuide.
Bibliography
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1877): 80.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: I, 456.
Maps
Map:Diksmuide (West-Vlaanderen, Belgium)
| Author(s) | Christian Neff |
|---|---|
| Date Published | 1956 |
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Neff, Christian. "Diksmuide (West-Vlaanderen, Belgium)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 21 Nov 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Diksmuide_(West-Vlaanderen,_Belgium)&oldid=146404.
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Neff, Christian. (1956). Diksmuide (West-Vlaanderen, Belgium). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 21 November 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Diksmuide_(West-Vlaanderen,_Belgium)&oldid=146404.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 76. All rights reserved.
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