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Century 21 Real Estate LLC is an American real estate agent franchise company founded in 1971. The system consists of approximately 14,000 independently owned and operated franchised broker offices in 86 countries and territories worldwide with over 147,000 sales professionals. [ 2 ]
Pages in category "Companies based in Hainaut (province)" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Hainaut is the only Belgian province whose capital is not its largest city. Hainaut has an area of 3,831 km 2 (1,479 sq mi) and as of January 2024 a population of over 1.36 million. [ 8 ] Another notable city is Tournai (Dutch Doornik ) on the Scheldt river, one of the oldest cities in Belgium and the first capital of the Frankish Empire .
At the beginning of the 19th century, the textile industry flourished and added cotton as one of its prime materials. On March 29, 1848, the Belgian army intervened near Mouscron against a troop of French republican sympathizers who were ready to invade Belgium, in what was known as the Risquons-Tout incident .
Until the 17th century, it was an integral part of the County of Hainaut, ruled by the House of Valois-Burgundy and later by the House of Habsburg. In a series of wars between France and Spain, this southern part of Hainaut was conquered by France, together with the adjacent Cambrésis , or Bishopric of Cambrai , to its south-west, and southern ...
Location of the region within Hainaut. The Centre or the Région du Centre is a region within the province of Hainaut in Wallonia, Belgium. It is part of the Sillon industriel or industrial centre of Belgium. It is located between the cities of Mons (the Borinage), Charleroi and Thuin (the Pays Noir) and Brabant. Its most important town is La ...
Tournai or Tournay (/ t ʊər ˈ n eɪ / toor-NAY, French: ⓘ; Picard: Tornai; Walloon: Tornè ⓘ; Dutch: Doornik [ˈdoːrnɪk] ⓘ) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the Province of Hainaut, Belgium.
The taille, created in the 15th century and used for more than three centuries, applied to incomes from non-privileged people from ownership, housing, farm land and breeding. The capitation , created in 1695, was a tax on social status that taxed everyone, however, for those subject to the taille the capitation was an addition to the taille.