a town of Dutch Flanders, eight miles north-east of Ostend, in $3^\circ$ E. long. and $51^\circ 20'$ N. lat.

**BLANKENBURG** is also the name of a town in lower Saxony, about forty-five miles south-east of Wolfenbüttel, in $11^\circ 15'$ E. long. and $51^\circ 50'$ N. lat.