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Blen·heim [ blénnəm ]
1. site of the Battle of Blenheim in 1704, where an English army, led by the 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeated French and Bavarian troops in the War of the Spanish Succession. It is near the present-day village of Blindheim, southwestern Germany.
2. wine-producing borough in the Wairau Valley in the South Island of New Zealand.
Population: 28,400 (2005 estimate).
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