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	Wallonia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Wallonia (French: Wallonie, German: Wallonien, Walloon: Walonreye) 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).
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Wallonia (756 words)

	Municipalities with linguistic facilities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For instance, in those municipalities, French-speakers in Flanders and Dutch-and German-speakers in Wallonia, and French-speakers in the German language area may obtain administrative documents from local public authorities or from certain federal authorities in their mother tongue.
		The German-speaking minority was mostly settled in the 'Eastern Cantons', several Prussian municipalities ceded to Belgium by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles and administered from 1920 to 1925 by a Belgian military High Commissionner.
		Municipalities in Wallonia belonging to the German language region with French-language facilities
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Municipalities_with_linguistic_facilities (1595 words)

	Walloon Lake Rentals
		Walloon Brabant is a province of Wallonia and of Belgium.
		Walloon is spoken in Wallonia (in Southern Belgium).
		The Walloon Parliament, or Walloon Regional Council (French: ''Parlement wallon'' or ''Conseil régional wallon''), is the parliament of Wallonia, the southern region of Belgium.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/220/walloon-lake-rentals.html (879 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Wallonia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Wallonia (French: Wallonie, German: Wallonien, Walloon: Walonreye, Dutch: WalloniÃ«) or the Walloon Region (French: RÃ©gion Wallonne, Dutch: Waals Gewest) is the predominantly French-speaking region that constitutes one of the three federal regions of Belgium, with its capital at Namur.
		The Walloon economy experienced a strong development in the 19th century, essentially in the regions of LiÃ¨ge and Charleroi.
		Walloon films are often characterized by social realism, like like those by the Dardenne brothers or Benoit Mariage, and the social documentaries by Patric Jean.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Wallonia (988 words)

	Municipalities of Belgium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		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.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Belgian_municipalities.htm (158 words)

	Communities, regions and provinces of Belgium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Belgium also comprises 589 municipalities, which in general consist of several sub-municipalities (which were independent municipalities before the municipal merger operation of 1977).
		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.
		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 Flanders.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Regions_and_provinces_of_Belgium (1060 words)

	Eurostat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		The Walloon Region, which has 20 districts and 262 municipalities, comprises the provinces of Hainaut, Liège, Luxembourg and Namur, and the province of Walloon/Brabant (district of Nivelles).
		After 243 municipalities were ceded to the Netherlands and G. Luxembourg in 1839, the figure increased to 2 675 in 1928, gradually declining thereafter until 1976.
		The last changes were caused by the division of the Brussels district into the districts of the capital city of Brussels, Halle-Vilvoorde and Leuven (Province of Brabant) and the formation of the district of Mouscron (Province of Hainaut) from municipalities in the Province of West Flanders.
	forum.europa.eu.int /irc/dsis/regportraits/info/data/en/be.htm (269 words)

	Regions and provinces of Belgium - InformationBlast
		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.
		And, as the Flemings from Brussels are just as well Flemings as the others, it became a purely internal choice of the Flemish Community in Belgium to establish its capital in Brussels.
		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.
	www.informationblast.com /Provinces_of_Belgium.html (803 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Rebecq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Rebecq is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant.
		On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 10,241 inhabitants.
		The total area is 39.08 km², giving a population density of 262 inhabitants per km².
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Rebecq (73 words)

	Municipalities of belgium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/municipalities_of_belgium (188 words)

	Politics of Belgium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The next municipal and provincial elections in 2006 and the next general election will be in 2007, the next community and regional elections are expected in 2009.
		Walloon and Flemish regional legislative assemblies and governments competent for regional economic matters.
		The bilingual Brabant province was split into separate Flemish Brabant and Walloon Brabant provinces, whereas the brussels area is a distinctive provincial area, but without most of the standard provincial institutions.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Belgium (4701 words)

	Regions and provinces of Belgium - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
		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.
		Hainaut ::Hainaut has a surface area of 3800 km² (22.56% of Wallonia; 12.44% of Belgium), and is divided into seven administrative districts which contain 69 municipalities.
	www.indexsuche.com /Regions_and_provinces_of_Belgium.html (708 words)

	Wallonia (Belgium) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		The French Community (Communauté Française) is competent in the Walloon provinces (excepted the German-speaking municipalities) and in Brussels.
		The 75 members of the Walloon Regional Council are also members of the Council of the French Community (Conseil de la Communauté Française), along with the 19 French-speaking members of the Council of the Region of Brussels-Capital.
		There are rattachistes Walloons, who promote the incorporation of Walloonia into France and campaign with a Tricolore French flag charged with the coq hardi in the middle.
	www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/be-wal.html (1195 words)

	U.S.ENGLISH Foundation Official Language Research - Belgium: Language issues
		The Walloon Region encompasses French-speaking territory and the German-speaking cantons.
		This entails that Walloon political parties can run for federal and European elections in the entire constituency, even though part of it lies in monolingual Flanders.
		Walloon parties, however, refuse to obey the constitution because dividing Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde would mean a loss of their electoral power and besides that the Flemish character of the municipalities around Brussels would have to be recognized.
	www.us-english.org /foundation/research/olp/viewResearch.asp?CID=8&TID=3 (1353 words)

	Parliament of the German-speaking Community in Belgium - The supervision and financing of municipalities
		On 1st June 2004 the communitarian Parliament approved the draft decree that foresees the transfer of the communal supervision and financing from the Walloon region to the German-speaking Community.
		The Walloon regional Parliament situated in Namur had already consented to it on 12th May 2004.
		The organisation and the exercise of the administrative supervision of the municipalities and the police areas.
	www.dgparlament.be /EN/DesktopDefault.aspx/tabid-1035 (208 words)

	Belgium - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		The Flemish and Walloon regions are furthermore subdivided in administrative entities, the provinces.
		Both the Dutch spoken in Belgium and the Belgian French have minor differences in vocabulary and semantic nuances from the varieties spoken in France and the Netherlands.
		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.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/b/e/l/Belgium.html (3919 words)

	Public intervenings - www.hr2hr.com
		As now the Flemish nation is gathered in only one state, partnerships between the French speaking states are rather common (the Brussels-Capital and the Walloon region generally have a common international representation for example; the Walloon region and the French community will soon share their IT structures).
		Moreover, the daily administration of some institutions and agencies is taken in charge by the "social partners" (employers and workers unions), as for the National Employment Agency for example.
		ForEm (Walloon region) and the VDAB (Flemish region).
	www.hr2hr.com /main.php?lng=en&page_id=007 (1396 words)

	Municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		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.
		This list is sometimes referred to as the list of the 19 municipalities of the agglomeration of Brussels, although the actual urban agglomeration around Brussels, as far as demographics is concerned, extends further than these 19 municipalities.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/m/u/n/Municipalities_of_the_Brussels-Capital_Region_b728.html (132 words)

	U.S.ENGLISH Foundation Official Language Research - Belgium: Language in everyday life
		These nine municipalities are part of the Walloon Region, which means that the German-speaking community has no autonomy in regional matters.
		Under certain circumstances, the child’s mother tongue or language of habitual use may also be the language of instruction in nursery or primary schools in the Montzen municipality (Articles 3 and 4 of the Education Act of July 30, 1963).
		In the Walloon Region, with the exception of those municipalities that are adjacent to the linguistic borderline, the modern language can be Dutch, English or German.
	www.us-english.org /foundation/research/olp/viewResearch.asp?CID=8&TID=6 (1681 words)

	Euromosaic - German in Belgium
		Under certain circumstances, the child's mother tongue or language of habitual use may also be the medium of instruction in nursery or primary schools in the Montzen municipality (Articles 3 and 4 of the Education Act of 30 July 1963).
		As a result, in certain municipalities teaching is permitted in one of the other national languages at the request of 16 parents (8 sets of parents).
		Local agencies covering only one municipality therefore use only German in their internal services, in dealings with higher authorities and in dealings with other agencies in the same language area and with Brussels but, if necessary, may attach a translation.
	www.uoc.edu /euromosaic/web/document/alemany/an/i1/i1.html (3919 words)

	Brussels-Capital Region peee.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		3) was inserted, stating that "Belgium is made up of three regions: The Flemish region, the Walloon region and the Brussels region." However, only after the adoption the special (constitutional) law of 12 January 1989, the Region came into existence, nine years later than the Flemish and the Walloon region.
		This is a decentralised administrative public body, assuming competences which elsewhere in Belgium are exercised by municipalities or provinces (fire brigade, waste disposal).
		the centra for social welfare of the 19 municipalities).
	www.peee.org /en/Brussels-Capital+Region (1224 words)

	translate.eipcp.net - Weird translations
		Flanders as the ‘milch cow of the Walloon Provinces’ is a phrase which spontaneously invokes the European looting of Africa or the so-called ‘scramble for Africa’[18].
		In some twenty municipalities on the linguistic boundaries within Belgium a special policy with regard to the language of the other is applicable, a language which – however illicit according to language nationalists – has nevertheless crossed the border shamelessly.
		Moreover, they argue, in the time of their coming into effect in the early sixties the facilities for foreign speakers were meant, as a provisional favour, not as a right obtained once and for all by foreign speakers.
	translate.eipcp.net /strands/04/lesage-strands01 (11016 words)

	Municipalities with linguistic facilities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Association of cities and towns in the state which represents municipalities at the General Assembly, before the State executive branch and regulatory agencies, and in the courts.
		SUMA is the provincial voice of urban municipalities in Saskatchewan.
		The Federation of Canadian Municipalities is the national voice of municipal governments, dedicated to improving the quality of life in all communities by promoting strong, effective, and accountable government.
	www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Taalfaciliteiten (2854 words)

	ipedia.com: Politics of Belgium Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Each district is given a number of seats proportional to its population (not number of voters) ranging from 4 for the Luxembourg district to 22 for Brussels.
		The districts are divided along linguistic lines: 10 Flemish, 9 Walloon, and the bilingual district of Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde.
		All districts have an electoral threshold of 5%, except for Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde, Walloon Brabant and Leuven; all districts are monolingual, except for Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde which encompasses both the 19 bilingual municipalities from the Brussels-Capital region as some 35 Dutch-speaking municipalities in Flemish Brabant, incl.
	www.ipedia.com /politics_of_belgium.html (4379 words)

	Wadsworth
		The Walloon region has selected a number of major projects to be funded by the EU, including the development of the Port of Liège, the refurbishment of the conference center, the upgrading of the Meuse riverbank, museum project and the new TGV station which will mean EUR 50m flowing into the cities coffers.
		The Walloon municipalities are not hurrying with the liberalization, which only starts in the Walloon region in 2005.
		The Walloon Region and the European Fund for Regional Development (EFRD) have just released the means to enable the University of Liège to develop a cluster of laboratories and companies for GIGA (the interdisciplinary applied genome-proteomics cluster) at the city's hospital center CHU.
	www.webcontentnow.com /Issue41.htm (7240 words)

	UCL - Research topics
		The objective is better to know the history of the population of Wallonia and Brussels, mainly within the framework of the demographic and urban transitions.
		The 19th and 20th centuries are privileged and the behaviors of fecondity, nuptiality, mortality and of mobility, as well as the study of dynamic of settlement, of the components of the demographic structure and shift in population, are generally approached within a very precise spatial framework (municipalities, cities, campaigns, industrial areas).
		A demographic and socio-economic database is developed by GéDAP at the municipal level (CYTISE) at the request of the Walloon Region.
	www.uclouvain.be /en-2833.html (886 words)

	Mont brabant, - Mont-Saint-Jean - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education
		The village of Mont St Andre is situated to the north-west of
		Mont-Saint-Jean, village, Walloon Brabant prov., central Belgium, on a height S of Waterloo.
		Mont-Saint-Jean - Mont-Saint-Jean, village, Walloon Brabant prov., central Belgium, on a height S of Waterloo.
	findoutwebsite.com /fows/mont-brabant.htm (319 words)

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