Flines-lez-Raches (, literally ''Flines

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Raches Raches ( el, Ράχες) is a village and a former Communities and Municipalities of Greece, municipality on the island of Ikaria, North Aegean, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Ikaria, of which it is ...

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in the Nord department in northern

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Flines Abbey Flines Abbey (french: Abbaye de Flines; also ''L'Honneur Notre-Dame de Flines'') was a Cistercian nunnery in Flines-lez-Raches near Douai, in the Nord department of France. It was founded in about 1234 by Countess Margaret of Flanders, and se ...

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