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R.F.C. Tournai. R.F.C. Tournai is a Belgian association football club from the city of Tournai, Hainaut. It is the result of the merger between R. Union Sportive Tournaisienne ( matricule n°26) and R.R.C. Tournaisien (n°36) in 2002. The club wears the matricule n°26 and plays in the Belgian Division 2, the fourth tier of Belgian football.
Picardy Wallonia. Picardy Wallonia ( French: Wallonie-Picarde; 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.
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.
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 It was fortified under Emperor Maximiam in the 3rd century AD, [6] when the Roman limes was withdrawn to the string of outposts along the road.
It was founded in 1909 as "Racing Club Tournaisien" and then changed to R.R.C. Tournaisien in 1934. The club first reached the second division in 1955 and qualified quickly for the first division (in 1958–59). Relegated at the end of the season, the club then decayed and fell off to the third division in 1970.
Siege of Tournai (1709) / 50.60556°N 3.38806°E / 50.60556; 3.38806. The siege of Tournai was a siege of the city of Tournai, then part of the Kingdom of France, between 28 June and 3 September 1709. [1] A Grand Alliance army under the British Duke of Marlborough successfully forced the surrender of the French garrison during the War ...
Battle of Tournay (1794) / 50.644019; 3.344689. The Battle of Tournay or Battle of Tournai or Battle of Pont-à-Chin (22 May 1794) saw Republican French forces led by Jean-Charles Pichegru attack Coalition forces under Emperor Francis II and Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After a bitter all-day struggle, Coalition troops recaptured a ...
Citizens of Tournai (Belgium) bury plague victims Ruins of Beckov Castle in Slovakia. The crisis of the Middle Ages was a series of events in the 14th and 15th centuries that ended centuries of European stability during the late Middle Ages.