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Mouscron (French pronunciation: ⓘ; Dutch and West Flemish: Moeskroen, Dutch pronunciation: ⓘ; Picard and Walloon: Moucron) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Hainaut, along the border with the French city of Tourcoing, which is part of the Lille metropolitan area.
However, on 1 January 2001 they were given an administrative function again. The merger of Antwerp with the municipalities of Berchem , Borgerhout , Deurne , Hoboken , Ekeren , Merksem and Wilrijk in 1983 finally reduced the number of municipalities in Belgium to 589 and was the last reorganization of the municipalities for several decades ...
It has a surface area of 16,901 km 2 (6,526 sq mi), or 55.1% of Belgium, and is also divided into 5 provinces which contain a total of 262 municipalities. Its capital is Namur . The official languages are French and, only in the nine eastern municipalities that form the German-speaking Community near the German border, German .
Belgique Belgien Brussels City 30,689 km 2 (11,849 sq mi) 11,763,650 383/km 2 (990/sq mi) History. ... as well as parts of modern Germany and France, ...
On 29 July 2016, WDR announced that from early September 2016 Einsfestival became One and became a channel specifically aimed at viewers aged between 30 and 49. [1] [2] The channel's website, Twitter, and Facebook presences were updated on 1 September 2016, [3] and the on-air rebrand took effect on 3 September 2016, starting with adoption of the new screen identification at 0.00 and ending ...
It was only in 1651 that the expansion of the fulleries led to Verviers being recognized as one of the prince-bishopric's bonnes villes (main cities). The end of the 18th century was troubled by the French Revolution. The annexation of Liège to France in 1795 caused a steep economic decline and unprecedented poverty.
Vox is a German free-to-air television channel launched on 25 January 1993 and owned by RTL Group. [1] The channel mainly broadcasts documentaries and US series and movies.. An integral part of the night program is the series Medical Detectives / Forensic Files, which regularly gets very high ratings, sometimes up to 20%, which is rather unusual for the broadcaster.
The Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire (BNU) is, with its collection of more than 3,000,000 titles, [60] the second-largest library in France after the Bibliothèque nationale de France. It was founded by the German administration after the complete destruction of the previous municipal library in 1871 and holds the unique status of being ...