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Antwerp ...name: literally, “to throw a hand.” Antwerp’s coat of
arms consists of a fortified castle with a hand on each side;
and in the Great Market, in front of the 16th-century Town Hall,
the Brabo Fountain (1887) depicts the legendary event. legend of
Druon Antigonus ...called Salvius Brabo, a cousin of Julius
Caesar. The two severed hands included in the coat of arms of
Antwerp have been connected with this legend, as has the
etymology of the city’s name. The Brabo Fountain (1887), in
front of the Hôtel de Ville, is surmounted by a statue of Brabo
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