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Leuven (UK: / ˈ l ɜː v ən /, US: / ˈ l ʌ v ən /, Dutch: [ˈløːvə(n)] ⓘ), also called Louvain (/ l uː ˈ v æ̃ /, US also / l uː ˈ v eɪ n /, French:), is the capital and largest city of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels.
The Sack of Louvain was the German assault on the Belgian town of Leuven (French: Louvain), part of the events collectively known as the Rape of Belgium, taking place during the First World War. Over the course of several days of pillaging and brutality, 248 people were killed and 1,500 were deported to Germany where they were held at the ...
Created in 1971, Louvain-la-Neuve Science Park is the first of its kind in Belgium and is the biggest one in Wallonia (the French-speaking part of Belgium). It covers 2.31 square kilometres spread over the area of the town of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve and the municipality of Mont-Saint-Guibert (30 km away from Brussels).
1356 - Louvain was the scene of the Joyeuse Entrée of Wenceslas. [3] 1379 – Defenestration of Leuven (political unrest). [3] 1425 – Old University of Leuven founded by John IV, Duke of Brabant. [4] [3] 1463 – Leuven Town Hall built. [5] [3] 1474 – Printing press in operation. [6] 1497 – St. Peter's Church rebuilt. [3] 1502 ...
This is a list of cities in Belgium. City status in Belgium is granted to a select group of municipalities by a royal decree or by an act of law. In 2022, the five largest cities or municipalities in Belgium in terms of population were Antwerp , Ghent , Charleroi , Liège , and Brussels .
Book celebrating the 25 anniversary of the founding of the Catholic University of Louvain, November 3, 1859. UCLouvain (or Université catholique de Louvain [ynivɛʁsite katɔlik də luvɛ̃], French for Catholic University of Louvain, officially in English the University of Louvain) [4] is Belgium's largest French-speaking university and one of the oldest in Europe (originally established in ...
The Rape of Belgium was a series of systematic war crimes, especially mass murder and deportation, ... Andenne and Leuven. [5]: 573–4 ...
The Old University of Leuven (or of Louvain) is the name historians give to the university, or studium generale, founded in Leuven, Brabant (then part of the Burgundian Netherlands, now part of Belgium), in 1425.