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The pagus of Brabant (Latin: Pagus Bracbantensis; Dutch: Brabantgouw) was a geographical region in the early Middle Ages, located in what is now BelgiumIt was the first region known to have been called Brabant, and it included the modern capital of Belgium, Brussels.
Français : Carte indiquant la localisation de la commune de Louvain en rouge dans son arrondissement et la province du Brabant flamand. English: Map of Leuven in province of Flemish Brabant, Belgium.
Vlaams-Brabant: Brabant flamand: Flämisch-Brabant Leuven: Jan Spooren: Since 2020: 2,118 km 2 (818 sq mi) 1,196,773 ... Adjunct van de gouverneur).
The Duke of Brabant held the higher jurisdiction, which he loaned to the lord of Gaasbeek from the 13th century on. He bore the title "heer VAN Bodegem". In this manor, law was spoken according to the customs of Leuven. Apart from high jurisdiction, he held manorial rights over a small part of the territory of Bodegem.
The Province of Brabant (/ b r ə ˈ b æ n t /, US also / b r ə ˈ b ɑː n t, ˈ b r ɑː b ən t /; [1] [2] [3] Dutch: [ˈbraːbɑnt] ⓘ) 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 . [ 4 ]
Jacob van Deventer was among the first to make systematic use of triangulation, a technique whose theory was described by his contemporary Gemma Frisius in his 1533 book, Libellus de locorum describendorum ratione. In 1536 he produced a printed map of Brabant, the first such map to be published in the Netherlands. He then launched into an ...
The Leuven Arrondissement (Dutch: Arrondissement Leuven; French: Arrondissement de Louvain) is one of two arrondissements in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. It lies east of the Brussels-Capital Region. The arrondissement has an area of 1,168.83 km 2 (451.29 sq mi) and has (as of January 1, 2017) 502,602 inhabitants.
Leuven (101,396) Mechelen (86,304) Aalst (85,715) Hasselt (77,651) Sint-Niklaas (76,756) Kortrijk (76,265) Ostend (71,332) Genk (66,110) Roeselare (62,301) The Flemish Diamond (Dutch: Vlaamse Ruit) is the name of the central, populous area in Flanders and consists of several of these cities, such as Antwerp, Ghent, Leuven and Mechelen ...