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Diest (Dutch pronunciation: ⓘ) is a city and municipality located in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant.Situated in the northeast of the Hageland region, Diest neighbours the provinces of Antwerp to its North, and Limburg to the East and is situated around 60 km from Brussels.
Schaffen Air Base is a Belgian Air Force Base, located 2.1 km (1.3 mi) north-northeast of Diest in Flemish Brabant, Belgium. The airfield is currently the Training Center for Parachutists (TrgC Para) of the Belgian ParaCommandos.
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 .
Koninklijke Football Club Diest is a former Belgian association football club from the town of Diest, Flemish Brabant. It played two spells in the first division : from 1961–62 to 1964–65 and from 1970–71 to 1974–75, finishing 7th in 1964.
Belgian headquarters anticipated that the manoeuvres foreshadowed a German advance towards Hasselt and Diest. To block this advance, the Belgian Cavalry Division, commanded by Lieutenant-General Léon de Witte, was sent to guard the bridge over the River Gete at Halen. During an evening meeting, the Belgian general staff convinced de Witte to ...
The Hageland is a landscape in the Flemish Region of Belgium, situated in the eastern part of the Province of Flemish Brabant.It is mainly comprised between the cities of Aarschot, Leuven, Tienen and Diest, and probably coincides to some extent with the twelfth-century County of Leuven.
John Berchmans was born on 13 March 1599, in the city of Diest situated in what is now the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant, the son of a shoemaker.His parents were John Charles and Elizabeth Berchmans.
This is a list of airports (aerodromes and heliports) in Belgium, sorted by location. Names shown in bold indicate airports with scheduled service on commercial airlines.