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Diest

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Diest is a city and municipality located in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. [1]

45 relations: Antwerp (province), Arrondissement of Leuven, Baron, Batavian Revolution, Bekkevoort, Belgium, Belgium national football team, Beringen, Belgium, Bob Stouthuysen, Breda, Buren, City, Dillenburg, Dutch language, Elckerlijc, Flemish Brabant, France, Germany, Hageland, Halen, House of Nassau, House of Orange-Nassau, John Berchmans, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Liliane Saint-Pierre, Limburg (Belgium), Lummen, Marleen Renders, Municipality, Napoleonic Wars, Netherlands, Omer Vanaudenhove, Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten, Orange, Vaucluse, Peter van Diest, Philip William, Prince of Orange, Pieter and François Hemony, Population density, Requiem, Scherpenheuvel-Zichem, Sister city, Society of Jesus, Steenbergen, Tessenderlo, Timmy Simons.

Antwerp (province)

Antwerp (Antwerpen) is the northernmost province both of the Flemish Region, also called Flanders, and of Belgium.

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Arrondissement of Leuven

The Leuven Arrondissement is one of two arrondissements in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant.

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Baron

Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary.

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Batavian Revolution

The Batavian Revolution (De Bataafse Revolutie) was a political, social and cultural turmoil at the end of the 18th century that marked the end of the Dutch Republic and saw the proclamation of the Batavian Republic.

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Bekkevoort

Bekkevoort is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

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Belgium national football team

The Belgian national football team has officially represented Belgium in association football since their maiden match in 1904.

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Beringen, Belgium

Beringen is a city and municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg The Beringen municipality includes the town of Beringen proper and the old communes of Beverlo, Koersel, and Paal.

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Bob Stouthuysen

Baron Robert "Bob" Stouthuysen (born 10 March 1929, Diest, Belgium) is a Belgian businessman.

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Breda

Breda is a city and municipality in the southern part of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Brabant.

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Buren

Buren is a town and municipality in the Betuwe region of the Netherlands.

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City

A city is a large human settlement.

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Dillenburg

Dillenburg is a town in Hesse's Gießen region in Germany.

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Dutch language

The Dutch language is a West Germanic language, spoken by around 23 million people as a first language (including the population of the Netherlands where it is the official language, and about sixty percent of Belgium where it is one of the three official languages) and by another 5 million as a second language.

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Elckerlijc

Elckerlijc (also known as Elckerlyc) is a morality play from the Low Countries which was written in Dutch somewhere around the year 1470.

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Flemish Brabant

Flemish Brabant (Vlaams-Brabant, Brabant flamand) is a province of Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Hageland

The Hageland is a landscape in the Flemish Region of Belgium, situated in the eastern part of the Province of Flemish Brabant and extending into a western tip of the Province of Limburg.

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Halen

Halen, formerly Haelen, is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg, to the west of Hasselt.

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House of Nassau

The House of Nassau is a diversified aristocratic dynasty in Europe.

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House of Orange-Nassau

The House of Orange-Nassau (Dutch: Huis van Oranje-Nassau), a branch of the European House of Nassau, has played a central role in the politics and government of the Netherlands and Europe especially since William the Silent organized the Dutch revolt against Spanish rule, which after the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) led to an independent Dutch state.

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John Berchmans

Saint John Berchmans, SJ (Jan Berchmans) (13 March 1599 – 13 August 1621) was a Jesuit scholastic and is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.

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Kingdom of the Netherlands

The Kingdom of the Netherlands (Koninkrijk der Nederlanden), commonly known as the Netherlands, is a sovereign state and constitutional monarchy with the large majority of its territory in Western Europe and with several small island territories in the Caribbean Sea, in the West Indies islands (Leeward Islands and Lesser Antilles).

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Liliane Saint-Pierre

Liliane Saint-Pierre (born Liliane Louise Keuninckx, 18 December 1948) is a Belgian (Flemish) singer who sings mainly in Dutch.

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Limburg (Belgium)

Limburg (Dutch and Limburgish: Limburg; Limbourg) is a province in Belgium.

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Lummen

Lummen is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg near Hasselt.

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Marleen Renders

Marleen Renders (born 24 December 1968, in Diest) is a retired female long-distance runner from Belgium, who represented her native country thrice at the Summer Olympics: in 1988, 1996 and 2000.

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Municipality

A municipality is usually a single urban or administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and state laws to which it is subordinate.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions, financed and usually led by the United Kingdom.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Omer Vanaudenhove

Omer Rudolphe Jean, Viscount Vanaudenhove (3 December 1913 – 26 November 1994) was a Belgian liberal politician, mayor and minister.

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Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten

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Orange, Vaucluse

Orange (Provençal Aurenja in classical norm or Aurenjo in Mistralian norm) is a commune in the Vaucluse Department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France, about north of Avignon.

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Peter van Diest

Peter van Diest (Latinised as Petrus Diesthemius) was a medieval writer from the Low Countries.

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Philip William, Prince of Orange

Philip William, Prince of Orange (19 December 1554 in Buren, Gelderland – 20 February 1618) was the eldest son of William the Silent by his first wife Anna van Egmont.

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Pieter and François Hemony

François Hemony (-1667) and his brother Pieter, Pierre, or Peter Hemony (1619-1680) were the greatest carillon bell founders in the history of the Low Countries.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.

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Requiem

A Requiem or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead (Latin: Missa pro defunctis) or Mass of the dead (Latin: Missa defunctorum), is a Mass in the Catholic Church offered for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons, using a particular form of the Roman Missal.

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Scherpenheuvel-Zichem

Scherpenheuvel-Zichem is a city and municipality located in the province of Flemish Brabant, Flemish Region, Belgium, encompassing the towns of Averbode, Messelbroek, Okselaar, Scherpenheuvel, Schoonderbuken, Keiberg, Kaggevinne, Testelt and Zichem (previously spelled Sichem, like the biblical town).

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Sister city

Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.

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Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus (SJ – from Societas Iesu) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain.

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Steenbergen

Steenbergen is a municipality and a town in the province of North Brabant in the south of the Netherlands.

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Tessenderlo

Tessenderlo is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg.

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Timmy Simons

Timmy Simons (born 11 December 1976) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays for Club Brugge in the Belgian Pro League.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diest

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