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  2. Mouscron - Wikipedia

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    www.mouscron.be. Mouscron ( French pronunciation: [mukʁɔ̃] ⓘ; Dutch and West Flemish: Moeskroen, Dutch pronunciation: [muˈskrun] ⓘ; Picard and Walloon: Moucron) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Hainaut, along the border with the French city of Tourcoing, which is part of the Lille metropolitan area.

  3. Roman Catholic Diocese of Tournai - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Church of Saint Quentin, Tournai - Wikipedia

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    Coordinates: 50°36′24″N 03°23′06″E. Church of Saint Quentin, Tournai. The Church of Saint Quentin ( French: Église Saint-Quentin de Tournai) is a Roman catholic parish church in Tournai, Belgium. The largely Romanesque building is located on the main square of the town, the Grand-Place. Known to have existed since the 10th century ...

  5. Black Death in France - Wikipedia

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    The Black Death was present in France between 1347-1352. [1] The bubonic plague pandemic, known as the Black Death, reached France by ship from Italy to Marseille in November 1347, spread first through Southern France, and then continued outwards to Northern France. Due to the large size and population of the Kingdom of France, the pandemic ...

  6. 1859 in Belgium - Wikipedia

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    Events. Fabrique d'armes Émile et Léon Nagant established in Liège. Railway line from Namur to Arlon completed. 18 April – Five-year commercial treaty with France (1854) extended for two more years. [1] 14 June – Partial legislative elections. 19 July – Auguste Orts replaces Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen as speaker of the Chamber of ...

  7. Salian Franks - Wikipedia

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    These Franks, headed by a certain Chlodio, conquered an area which included Turnacum (the modern Belgian city of Tournai) and Cameracum (the modern French city of Cambrai). According to Lanting & van der Plicht (2010), this probably happened in the period 445–450. Chlodio is never referred to as Salian, only Frankish, and his origins unclear.

  8. List of castles and châteaux in Belgium - Wikipedia

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    Château du Belvédère / Kasteel Belvédère. Laeken. Residence of King Albert II. Palace of Coudenberg. Palais du Coudenberg / Coudenbergpaleis. City of Brussels. Destroyed in 1731, parts visible underneath the modern city. Egmont Palace. Palais d'Egmont / Egmontpaleis.

  9. Belgian Resistance - Wikipedia

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    M. Conway (2012) Active resistance within Belgium developed from early 1941 and took several directions. Armed resistance, in the forms of sabotage or assassinations, took place, but was only part of the "active" resistance's scope of activity. Some groups had very specific forms of resistance and became extremely specialized. The Service D group, for example, had many members in the national ...

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