BERGEN. a province in s.w. Norway, on the Atlantic; area, including, a part of Romsdal, 18,540 sq.m.; pop. '75, 356,561. The coast is indented by ninny fjords or gulfs. the largest being Hardangar Fjord. There are high mountains all over the province, but in the valleys around the fjords and streams, good pasturage is found. Cattle breed ing and the hcrriug fisheries are the main occupations. There are marble, and ores of copper and iron, but none are worked owing to want of file]. Capital, Bergen.
a t., formerlystrongly fortified, in the province of North Brabant, Netherlands, about 20 m. n. of Antwerp, stands on the little river Zoom, at its entrance into the e. branch of the Scheldt. Lat. 51° 29' n., long. 4° 17' east. The importance of Its position rendered it the object of many a contest. The Netherlanders made it one of their strongholds in their struggles witb Spain. The prince of Parma besieged it in vain in 1598; three assaults by the Spaniards in 1605 also failed, as did the siege by the mar quis of Spinola, in 1622, which, after a duration of 78 days and a loss of 10,000 men.
was raised on the arrival of prince Maurice of Orange. The fortifications were after wards strengthened by the engineer Coehorn, so as to give it the reputation of being impregnable. Yet the French, under count Lowendal, in 1747, after a siege of two months, and the springing of 41 mines by the assailants, and 38 by the defenders, took the place by storm. In the winter of 1704,.it capitulated to Pichegru. Being incorpo rated with France in 1810. it was blockaded by the English in 1914, who. under sir Thomas Graham, attempted to surprise the fortress on the night of the 9th of Mar., with a force of 4000, but after carrying the greater part of the works, they were, through remissness in sending support, overpowered by the brave garrison, and either slain or forced to surrender. The French gave up the fortress under the treaty of Paris. B. has manufactures of earthenwares, and a large trade in anchovies. Pop. '75, 9599.