Arrondissement Of Brussels

The arrondissement of Brussels was one of the three arrondissements forming the

province of Brabant The Province of Brabant (, , ) was a province in Belgium from 1830 to 1995. It was created in 1815 as South Brabant, part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. In 1995, it was split into the Dutch-speaking Flemish Brabant, the French-speak ...

, Belgium, or before Belgium's independence forming the French Dyle department. The arrondissement was split in 1963 upon the fixation of the language border into the

arrondissement of Brussels-Capital The Arrondissement of Brussels-Capital ( nl, Arrondissement Brussel-Hoofdstad; french: Arrondissement de Bruxelles-Capitale; german: Verwaltungsbezirk Brüssel-Hauptstadt) is the only administrative arrondissement in the Brussels Capital Region ...

, the arrondissement of Halle-Vilvoorde and the short-lived

arrondissement of Brussels-Periphery The Arrondissement of Brussels-Periphery ( nl, Arrondissement Brussel-Randgemeenten) was an administrative arrondissement in the Belgian Province of Brabant. It existed from 1963 to 1971 and comprised the six municipalities in the Brussels periph ...

that would later be merged into Halle-Vilvoorde. The arrondissement of Brussels was retained as electoral district, under the new name

Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde The area within Belgium known as Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde encompasses the bilingual— French and Dutch—Brussels-Capital Region, which coincides with the arrondissement of Brussels-Capital and the surrounding Dutch-speaking area of Halle-Vilvo ...

, which would later become a contentious issue in Belgian politics until being split in 2012–2014. The arrondissement still exists as a judicial arrondissement, though its prosecution service was split as well in 2014. {{Authority control Former arrondissements of Belgium