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  Municipalities of Belgium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Belgium is divided into 589 municipalities (Dutch: gemeenten, French: communes, German: Gemeinde) grouped into three regions and 10 provinces, except the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital region which do not belong to any of the 10 provinces.
The municipalities are the smallest administrative subdivisions of Belgium.
After municipalities were merged in 1977 (major merging) and 1983 (merging of the municipalities of Antwerp), the number came down to 589.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Belgian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This is a list of Prime Ministers of Belgium, known regionally as: Premier Ministre in French, Eerste Minister in Dutch, and Premierminister in German.
The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south.
List of countries/dependencies by population density in inhabitants/km².
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 ipedia.com: Regions and provinces of Belgium Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Although many believe that the capital of Belgium is the City of Brussels municipality, the Belgian Constitution makes it clear that the capital of Belgium is Brussels in the broad meaning of the term (cf.
The official language is Dutch but French may be used for administrative purpose in the so-called "municipalities with linguistic facilities" around the Brussels Capital Region and on the border with Wallonia.
The official languages are French and German (only used in nine eastern municipalities near the German border, which were "given" to Belgium after WWI), though Dutch may be used for administrative purpose in the so-called municipalities with linguistic facilities on the border with Flanders.
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 Municipality (municipality info)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A municipality or "general-purpose district" (compare with: "special-purpose district") is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government.
Municipalities are not necessarily the same as townships.
- In Portugal, a municipality (município) is subdivision of a district (distritos).
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 Everything about Communities, Regions And Provinces Of Belgium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Wallonia (French: Wallonie) or the Walloon Region (French: Région Wallonne) is the predominantly French-speaking region that constitutes one of the three federal regions of Belgium, with its capital at Namur.
Walloon and Picard dialects used to be the predominant languages of the Walloon people until the beginning of the 20th century; French was the language of the upper class.
The Walloon Region is one of the three regions (southern region, mainly French-speaking, with a population of 3,360,000), the two other regions being the Flemish Region (northern region, mainly Dutch-speaking, with a population of 5,900,000) and the Brussels-Capital Region (officially bilingual French/Dutch but mainly French-speaking, with a population of 980,000).
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 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Charleroi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Charleroi (Walloon: Tchålerwè) is the first city and municipality of Wallonia in population.
She is located in the Belgian province of Hainaut.
The municipality features an industrial area, iron and steel industry, glassworks, chemicals, and electrical engineering.
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 Everything about Municipality   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
List of Austrian companies]] Austria's capital Vienna is one of Europe's major cities with a population exceeding 1.6 million (2 million with suburbs) and constitutes a melting pot of citizens from all over Central and Eastern Europe.
List of cities in Austria] While northern and central Germany was the origin of the Reformation, Austria (and Bavaria) were the heart of the Counter-Reformation in the 16th and 17th century, when the absolute monarchy of Habsburg imposed a strict regime to maintain Catholicism's power and influence among Austrians.
The following ranked lists of Austrian states cites population figures from the 2001 census: The population figures cited are generally assumed to be accurate to within five percent and to remain so until the next census, scheduled for 2011.
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All Communities thus have a precise and legally established area where they can exert their competencies: the Flemish Community is competent in the Flemish and Brussels regions; the French-speaking Community in the Walloon and Brussels regions, and the German Community only in a small part of the province of Liège (Wallonia), bordering with Germany.
The three regions are the Brussels-Capital Region, the Flemish Region and the Walloon Region.
French may be used for certain administrative purposes in a limited number of the so-called "municipalities with linguistic facilities" around the Brussels Capital Region and on the border with Wallonia.
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 Communities, regions and provinces of Belgium
French may be used for administrative purpose in a limited number of the so-called "municipalities with linguistic facilities" around the Brussels Capital Region and on the border with Wallonia.
Brussels is part of Flanders, but only for all its Flemish inhabitants and local institutions (which indeed live in both the Flemish region and the Brussels region).
The official languages are French and German (only in nine eastern municipalities near the German border, which were "given" to Belgium after WWI), though Dutch may be used for administrative purpose in the so-called municipalities with linguistic facilities on the border with Wallonia.
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 Home - Municipality   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In some states, a town is an incorporated municipality, that is, one with a charter received from the state, similar to a city.
Typically, municipalities are classed as cities, towns or boroughs, or villages in decreasing order of size, although not all states have all three levels.
In the six New England states, a town is a municipality, and in these states, in practice a more important unit than the county.
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 Municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Brussels-Capital Region is divided into 19 municipalities: Seven municipalities have only one official name; the other twelve officially have both a Dutch and a French name.
They are listed by the French name, with the Dutch name to the right of the French name, except for The City of Brussels which is in English.
Municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region : Anderlecht
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 Articles - Belgium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Flemish and Walloon regions are furthermore subdivided in administrative entities, the provinces.
At the highest level of this three-tiered setup is the federal government which manages foreign affairs, development aid, defence, military, police, economic management, social welfare, social security transport, energy, telecommunications, and scientific research, limited competencies in education and culture, and the supervision of taxation by regional authorities.
Examples are the Carnival of Binche, the Ducasse of Ath, the procession of the Holy Blood in Bruges, the 15th-of-August festival in Liège, and the Walloon festival in Namur.
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 User:Dhum Dhum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Delete list of municipalities and link to List of municipalities of the Brussels Capital Region (done)
List of municipalities of the Brussels Capital Region (done)
List of Belgian municipalities - including the municipalities of:
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 Municipalities of Belgium - Gurupedia
German: Gemeinde) grouped into three regions and 10 provinces, except the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital region which do not belong to any of the 10 provinces.
After municipalities were merged in 1977 (major merging) and
1983 (merging of the municipalities of Antwerp), the number came down to 589.
www.gurupedia.com /l/li/list_of_belgian_municipalities.htm   (109 words)

  
 WikiMiki.net - Brussels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This municipality inside Brussels is correctly named The City of Brussels (French: Bruxelles-Ville or Ville de Bruxelles, Dutch: Stad Brussel), which is one of 19 municipalities that make up the Brussels-Capital Region (see also: Municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region).
The names of all other municipalities in the Brussels-Capital Region are also of Dutch origin, except for Evere, which is of Celtic origin.
A curiosity is "Marollien", a Brussels dialect heavily influenced by Walloon which was spoken in a central section of the city.
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 Lalleud, - Belgium > Walloon Brabant > Braine-L'Alleud in the Yahoo! Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
List of Walloon municipalities: Facts and details from
Braine-lalleud is a municipality located in the belgian province of walloon brabant.
List of Belgian municipalities by population: Facts and details
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 List of Belgian municipalities
Belgium has a total of 589 municipalities divided over its three regions.
The following links take you to the lists of each region's municipalities:
List of municipalities of the Brussels Capital Region
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 Learn more about List of subnational entities in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Learn more about List of subnational entities in the online encyclopedia.
Hint: Play with putting spaces before and after your words to see the different results you get.
See also: ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes based on ISO 3166-1 country codes.
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 List of subnational entities - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
List of subnational entities - Questionz.net, answers to all your questions
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