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Waterloo (French pronunciation: ⓘ; [2] Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋaːtərloː] ⓘ; Walloon: Waterlô) is a municipality in Wallonia, located in the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium, which in 2011 had a population of 29,706 and an area of 21.03 km 2 (8.12 sq mi).
The memorial gives access to the Lion's Mound (a 40-metre high monument erected in 1826 at the request of William I, King of the Netherlands, to mark the presumed spot where his eldest son, the Prince of Orange, was wounded on 18 June 1815), the rotunda of the Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo (built in 1911 by the architect Franz Van Ophem [2 ...
The Chaussée de Waterloo appeared in 1662. Originally, it was simply an extension of the old Chaussée de Vleurgat / Vleurgatse Steenweg from the place called La Bascule to Waterloo. The road, which was also called the Chaussée de Wallonie / Waalse Steenweg was again extended at the end of the 17th century to Charleroi and Namur.
The erection of the Lion's Mound, 1825. Engraving by Jobard, after a Bertrand drawing. [a]The Lion's Mound was designed by the royal architect Charles Vander Straeten, at the behest of King William I of the Netherlands, who wished to commemorate the location on the battlefield of Waterloo where a musket ball hit the shoulder of his elder son, King William II of the Netherlands (then Prince of ...
A map of the Battle of Waterloo with contours. The Waterloo Battlefield is located in the municipalities of Braine-l'Alleud and Lasne and Waterloo, [1] about 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of Brussels, and about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from the town of Waterloo. The ordering of the places in the list is north to south and west to east.
Waterloo railway station (French: Gare de Waterloo; Dutch: Station Waterloo) [a] is a railway station in Waterloo, Walloon Brabant, Belgium. The station opened on 1 February 1874 and is located on railway line 124. The train services are operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (SNCB/NMBS). [1]
2-digit postcode areas Belgium (defined through the first two postcode digits). Postal codes in Belgium are numeric and consist of 4 numbers. The first digit indicates the province (except for the 3xxx numbers that are shared by the eastern part of Flemish Brabant and Limburg, the 6xxx that are shared between the Hainaut and Luxembourg province, and the 1xxx that are shared by the Brussels ...
Belgium, [a] officially the Kingdom of Belgium, [b] is a country in Northwestern Europe.The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the south, and the North Sea to the west.