Berzée ( wa, Berzeye) is a village of

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—alo ...

and a district of the municipality of

Walcourt Walcourt (; wa, Walcoû) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Namur, Belgium. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 17,516 inhabitants. The total area is 123.18 km2, giving a population density of 142 inhabitant ...

, located in the

province of Namur Namur (; nl, Namen ; wa, Nameur) is a province of Wallonia, one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders (clockwise from the West) on the Walloon provinces of Hainaut, Walloon Brabant, Liège and Luxembourg in Belgium, and the French depart ...

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 th ...

. A settlement probably existed here during Gallo-Roman times. In the 12th century, it was a dependency of

Thy-le-Château Thy-le-Château ( wa, Tî-l'-Tchestea) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Walcourt, located in the province of Namur, Belgium. The village is mentioned for the first time in the archives of Lobbes Abbey in the 9th cen ...

, and in 1226 it belonged to Walcourt. From the 15th century, the land was divided between different owners. The village church is a late

Gothic Gothic or Gothics may refer to: People and languages *Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes **Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths **Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...

building, consecrated in 1584. There is also a fortified farm, founded in the 13th century, in the village.

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* Former municipalities of Namur (province) {{Namur-geo-stub