Ellezelles
Ellezelles
Elzîle (Picard) Elzele (Dutch) | |
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Flag Coat of arms | |
Location of Ellezelles | |
Ellezelles Location in Belgium
The municipality in Ath arrondissement in the province of Hainaut | |
| Coordinates: 50°44′N 03°41′E / 50.733°N 3.683°E | |
| Country | Belgium |
| Community | French Community |
| Region | Wallonia |
| Province | Hainaut |
| Arrondissement | Ath |
| Government | |
| • Governing party/ies | Liste du Bourgmestre (LB) - Ecolo |
| Area | |
• Total | 45.11 km2 (17.42 sq mi) |
| Population (2018-01-01)[1] | |
• Total | 6,001 |
| • Density | 130/km2 (340/sq mi) |
| Postal codes | 7890 |
| NIS code | 51017 |
| Area codes | 068 |
| Website | www.ellezelles.be |
Ellezelles (French pronunciation: [ɛlzɛl] ⓘ; Dutch: Elzele; Picard: Elzîle; Walloon: Elziele) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
It consists of the following districts: Ellezelles, Lahamaide, and Wodecq. Bordering Flanders, the town is home to a minority of Dutch-speakers.
The village archives contain a document "attesting" to the birth of Hercule Poirot on 1 April 1850.[2]
Notable people
- Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavere (1522 in La Hamaide near Ellezelles – executed in 1568) a general and statesman in the Spanish Netherlands just before the start of the Eighty Years' War.[3]
- Richard Ely (born 1974 in Ellezelles) a Belgian writer, journalist and ethnobotanist.
References
- ^ "Wettelijke Bevolking per gemeente op 1 januari 2018". Statbel. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
- ^ "Hercule Poirot". Ellezelles.be. Retrieved June 10, 2018.
- ^ Edmundson, George (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). pp. 18–19.
External links
- Media related to Ellezelles at Wikimedia Commons