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Campine
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Campine (Dutch: Kempen) is a moor of swamp and sandy peat, encompassing the east of Antwerp province (with Turnhout as the most important city), part of Limburg province in Belgium (a former coal-producing region) as well as part of Noord-Brabant, a Dutch province.
The region, described as a desolate flat land often appears in the books of the prominent Flemish writer Hendrik Conscience (1812-1883), who spent much of his childhood there. Another author who has written many novels playing in the Campine was Georges Eekhoud (1854-1927). The painter Frans Van Giel (1892-1975) has painted many Campine landscapes.
The Campine gave its name to a 19th-century breed of ornamental chickens, the Campines, now rare, but sufficiently popular in the UK to have its own breeder's club established in 1899. They are a fairly small, closely feathered breed in Silver and Gold varieties, with solid white or golden hackles and iridescent black-green barred bodies. They will lay a fair number of white-shelled eggs.
SS. La Campine was a steamship with auxiliary sails, an early oil tanker that was launched in 1892, sunk by a U-boat in North Sea waters March 13, 1917.
Nowadays, the Campine is becoming a popular destination for tourists searching for a quiet and relaxed weekend. Old farms were transformed into bed and breakfast-hotels, the restaurant and café business is very active and an ingenious network for bicycle tours has come to life the past few years.
- Poultry Breeds: Campine Chickens
- Sheila Holligon, "The Campine: Silver and Gold"
- Steamship La Campine
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