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Tournai, known as Tornacum, was a place of minor importance in Roman times, a stopping place where the Roman road from Cologne on the Rhine to Boulogne on the coast crossed the river Scheldt. It was fortified under Emperor Maximiam in the 3rd century AD, [6] when the Roman limes was withdrawn to the string of outposts along the road.
This is a list of hospitals and hospital networks in Belgium as of August 2019, sorted per region and per province.For each hospital or hospital network, the list includes if applicable their specialisation, the municipalities where they are located, any international hospital accreditation they have obtained as well as their number of hospital beds (an indicator of the overall size and ...
The great gilt -copper and enamel Reliquary Shrine of Saint Eleutherius in the cathedral of Tournai ( Belgium ), one of the masterpieces of Gothic metalwork, [1] was commissioned by Bishop Walter de Marvis of Tournai, and completed in 1247, [2] on the occasion of the retranslation of relics of Saint Eleutherius of Tournai, traditionally the ...
Tournaisis. The Tournaisis, or Tournai (Flemish: Doornik ), a territory in the Low Countries in present-day Belgium, is one of Europe's oldest town centres. [1] Located in the Wallonia region of Belgium on the Scheldt River (French: L'Escaut ), northwest of Mons, Tournai residents are primarily French-speaking.
Picardy Wallonia. Picardy Wallonia ( French: Wallonie picarde, pronounced [walɔni pikaʁd]; Picard: Walonnie picarte) or Western Hainaut ( French: Hainaut-Occidental; Picard: Hénau occhidintal) is the North-West part of the province of Hainaut in Wallonia, where the Picard language is used.
Tournai remained in English hands, with William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy as Governor. The fortifications and a new citadel were reconstructed between August 1515 and January 1518, costing around £40,000. Work ceased because Henry VIII planned to restore the town to France. Tournai was returned by treaty on 4 October 1518.
The Diocese of Tournai ( Latin: Dioecesis Tornacensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Belgium. The diocese was formed in 1146, upon the dissolution of the Diocese of Noyon and Tournai, which had existed since the 7th century. [1] It is now suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the ...
The Tournaisian was named after the Belgian city of Tournai. It was introduced in scientific literature by Belgian geologist André Hubert Dumont in 1832. Like many Devonian and lower Carboniferous stages, the Tournaisian is a unit from West European regional stratigraphy that is now used in the official international time scale.