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Mellet
Mellet ( wa, Melet; in Old French ''Meflet'') (pronounced É›">Open-mid_front_unrounded_vowel.html" ;"title="É™lOpen-mid front unrounded vowel">É›by the inhabitants) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Les Bons Villers, located in the Hainaut Province, province of Hainaut, Belgium. Geography Mellet is crossed by a stream called Tintia. The Tintia flows into the Piéton. It is part of the Meuse basin. The altitude of Mellet is 140 meters. Recent history In 1977, five villages ( Frasnes-lez-Gosselies, Mellet, Rèves, Villers-Perwin and Wayaux) came together to form the commune of Les Bons Villers Les Bons Villers (; wa, Les Bons Viyés) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. On 1 January 2018 the municipality had 9,457 inhabitants. The total area is 42.55 km², giving a population density Popul .... Mellet was a municipality in its own right before the merger of the municipalities. Heritage * An old ...
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Villers-Perwin
Villers-Perwin ( wa, Viyé-Perwin) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Les Bons Villers, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. Villers-Perwin was a municipality on its own until the Fusion of the communes in Belgium in 1977. History Villers-Perwin has been a part of the Duchy of Brabant for 1000 years (802-1802) and is now located in the province of Hainaut. The first lords of the village were the Villers-Perwin, then passed successively to the de Walhain (13th century), the de Berghes (15th century) and the de Ligne (16th century). Albert de Ligne sold the seigniory in 1618 to Gérard de Villers, counselor of Archduke Albert and Isabelle. In 1670 it became property of Christophe Hannosset, counselor and receiver general of the province of Brabant. The last lords were the Castro y Toledo and finally the de Renette that built the Chapelle Saint-Hubert in 1760 for the protector of the hunters, celebrated on 3 November and the Chapelle Saint-Jacques ...
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Les Bons Villers
Les Bons Villers (; wa, Les Bons Viyés) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. On 1 January 2018 the municipality had 9,457 inhabitants. The total area is 42.55 km², giving a population density Population density (in agriculture: Stock (other), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geographical ... of 222 inhabitants per km². The municipality consists of the following districts: Frasnes-lez-Gosselies, Mellet, Rèves, Villers-Perwin and Wayaux. References External links * Municipalities of Hainaut (province) {{Hainaut-geo-stub ...
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Donjon De Mellet - 04
A keep (from the Middle English ''kype'') is a type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars have debated the scope of the word ''keep'', but usually consider it to refer to large towers in castles that were fortified residences, used as a refuge of last resort should the rest of the castle fall to an adversary. The first keeps were made of timber and formed a key part of the motte-and-bailey castles that emerged in Normandy and Anjou during the 10th century; the design spread to England, south Italy and Sicily. As a result of the Norman invasion of 1066, use spread into Wales during the second half of the 11th century and into Ireland in the 1170s. The Anglo-Normans and French rulers began to build stone keeps during the 10th and 11th centuries; these included Norman keeps, with a square or rectangular design, and circular shell keeps. Stone keeps carried considerable political as well as military importance and could take up t ...
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Old French
Old French (, , ; Modern French: ) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France from approximately the 8th to the 14th centuries. Rather than a unified language, Old French was a linkage of Romance dialects, mutually intelligible yet diverse, spoken in the northern half of France. These dialects came to be collectively known as the , contrasting with the in the south of France. The mid-14th century witnessed the emergence of Middle French, the language of the French Renaissance in the ÃŽle de France region; this dialect was a predecessor to Modern French. Other dialects of Old French evolved themselves into modern forms (Poitevin-Saintongeais, Gallo, Norman, Picard, Walloon, etc.), each with its own linguistic features and history. The region where Old French was spoken natively roughly extended to the northern half of the Kingdom of France and its vassals (including parts of the Angevin Empire, which during the 12th century remained under Anglo-Norman rul ...
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Open-mid Front Unrounded Vowel
The open-mid front unrounded vowel, or low-mid front unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is a Latinised variant of the Greek lowercase epsilon, . Features Occurrence See also * Index of phonetics articles A * Acoustic phonetics * Active articulator * Affricate * Airstream mechanism * Alexander John Ellis * Alexander Melville Bell * Alfred C. Gimson * Allophone * Alveolar approximant () * Alveolar click () * Alveolar consonant * Alveolar ejecti ... Notes References * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * External links * {{IPA navigation Open-mid vowels Front vowels Unrounded vowels ...
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Wallonia
Wallonia (; french: Wallonie ), or ; nl, Wallonië ; wa, Waloneye or officially the Walloon Region (french: link=no, Région wallonne),; nl, link=no, Waals gewest; wa, link=no, Redjon walone is one of the three regions of Belgium—along with Flanders and Brussels. Covering the southern portion of the country, Wallonia is primarily French-speaking. It accounts for 55% of Belgium's territory, but only a third of its population. The Walloon Region and the French Community of Belgium, which is the political entity responsible for matters related mainly to culture and education, are independent concepts, because the French Community of Belgium encompasses both Wallonia and the bilingual Brussels-Capital Region. There is a German-speaking minority in eastern Wallonia, resulting from the annexation of three cantons previously part of the German Empire at the conclusion of World War I. This community represents less than 1% of the Belgian population. It forms the German-speak ...
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Hainaut Province
Hainaut (, also , , ; nl, Henegouwen ; wa, Hinnot; pcd, Hénau), historically also known as Heynowes in English, is a province of Wallonia and Belgium. To its south lies the French department of Nord, while within Belgium it borders (clockwise from the North) on the Flemish provinces of West Flanders, East Flanders, Flemish Brabant and the Walloon provinces of Walloon Brabant and Namur. Its capital is Mons (Dutch ''Bergen'') and the most populous city is Charleroi, the province's urban, economic and cultural hub, the financial capital of Hainaut and the fifth largest city in the country by population. Hainaut has an area of and as of January 2019 a population of 1,344,241. Another remarkable city is Tournai (Dutch ''Doornik'') on the Scheldt river, one of the oldest cities of Belgium and the first capital of the Frankish Empire. Hainaut province exists of a wavy landscape, except for the very southern part, the so-called ''Boot of Hainaut'', which is quite hilly and bel ...
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Belgium
Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, 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 southwest, and the North Sea to the northwest. It covers an area of and has a population of more than 11.5 million, making it the 22nd most densely populated country in the world and the 6th most densely populated country in Europe, with a density of . Belgium is part of an area known as the Low Countries, historically a somewhat larger region than the Benelux group of states, as it also included parts of northern France. The capital and largest city is Brussels; other major cities are Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi, Liège, Bruges, Namur, and Leuven. Belgium is a sovereign state and a federal constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system. Its institutional organization is complex and is structured on both regional ...
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Frasnes-lez-Gosselies
Frasnes-lez-Gosselies ( wa, Fråne-dilé-Gochliye) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Les Bons Villers, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. Former names ''Fraxina'' (1146 ; 1147 ; 1148), ''Frasna'' (1148), ''Fraine'' (1205 ; ±1210), ''Fraxinensis'' (1205), ''Fraina'' (1222). Notable natives of Frasnes-lez-Gosselies *Adolphe Biarent (1871–1916), composer * Paul Vanderborght (1899–1971), poet *Jean Duvieusart Jean Pierre Duvieusart (10 April 1900 – 10 October 1977) was a Belgian Catholic politician of the PSC-CVP who served as prime minister of Belgium from June to August in 1950. Political career Jean Duvieusart became a member of the Chambe ... (1900–1977), Former Prime Minister References Former municipalities of Hainaut (province) {{Hainaut-geo-stub ...
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