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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Grieve, Alexander James (1911). "Nicholas of Basel". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 655.
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