Nampa
a city of Idaho, in Canyon co. It is on the Oregon Short Line and the Idaho Traction railroads. It is the center of important mining interests.
Agriculture has been promoted by irrigation projects. The public institutions include a State sanitarium and a public library. Pop. (1910) 4,205; (1920) 7,621.
NAMUR (nä-mür'), a city of Belgium, at the confluence of the Sambre with the Meuse, 35 miles S. E. of Brussels; is noted for its cutlery, and also manufactures firearms, leather, paper, and tobacco. With the exception of the pic- ing edifices. Here are statues of Stanislas Leszczynski (1677-1766), twice bacco. With the exception of the pic- ing edifices. Here are statues of Stanturesque citadel (1784), the old fortifications have been razed since 1866, their place being taken by a cordon of seven forts. The town itself has suffered so much by war that it offers little of interest-the cathedral, completed in 1772, with the grave of Don John of Austria; the Jesuit Church of St. Loup (1653), a large military school, an antiquarian museum, monuments of Leopold I. and the geologist Omalius d'Halloy (1783- 1875), etc. Namur was captured by Louis XIV. in 1692, but recaptured in 1695, after a 10 weeks' siege, by William III. It was captured, after a brief re- sistance, by the Germans in 1914, and with its fall began the Great Retreat to the Marne. Pop. about 35,000.