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Braine l'Alleud is home to RCS Braine football club, founded in 1913 and one of the oldest continuously existing clubs in the country. The city also has a successful women's basketball club, BC Castors Braine. The free-to-play, 18-hole Parc du Bourdon disc golf course is situated 1 kilometer from Braine L'Alleud train station. [2]
Braine-l'Alleud Walloon Brabant: 2 Braine-le-Château Walloon Brabant: 3 Braine-le-Comte: City Hainaut: 10 Braives Liège: 13 Brugelette Hainaut: 11 Brunehaut Hainaut: 12 Büllingen Bullange (in French) Liège: 14 Burdinne Liège: 15 Burg-Reuland Liège: 16 Bütgenbach Butgenbach (in French) Liège: 17 Celles Hainaut: 13 Cerfontaine: Namur: 6 ...
Ophain-Bois-Seigneur-Isaac (Walloon: Opin) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Braine-l'Alleud, located in the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium. [ 1 ] It was a municipality in its own right before the fusion of the Belgian municipalities in 1977.
Waterloo lies a short distance south of Brussels, and immediately north-east of the larger town of Braine-l'Alleud. It is the site of the Battle of Waterloo, where the resurgent Napoleon was defeated for the final time in 1815. Waterloo lies immediately south of the official language border between Flanders and Wallonia.
Walloon is a Belgian version of an old West Germanic word reconstructed as *walh (“foreigner, stranger, speaker of Celtic or Latin”). Brabant is from Old Dutch *brākbant (attested in Medieval Latin as pāgus brācbatensis, Bracbantum, Bracbantia), from Frankish, a compound of Proto-Germanic *brēk-, *brekaną (“fallow, originally 'to break'”) + *bant-, *bantō, *banti (“district ...
Braine, Aisne, a commune in the department of Aisne, France; Braine-l'Alleud, a municipality in the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium; Braine-le-Château, a municipality in the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium; Braine-le-Comte, a municipality in the province of Hainaut, Belgium; Canton of Braine, administrative region of France
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The neighboring towns are: Pepingen, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Beersel, Braine-l'Alleud, Braine-le-Château, and Tubize. The population of Halle has increased from 32,758 inhabitants in 1991 to 39,536 on 1 January 2019. The mayor is Eva Demesmaeker of the N-VA party.