Ellezelles
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Ellezelles
Elzîle (Picard)
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Coat of arms of Ellezelles Coat of arms | |
| The municipality in Ath arrondissement in the province of Hainaut The municipality in Ath arrondissement in the province of Hainaut | |
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| Country | Belgium |
| Community | French Community |
| Region | Wallonia |
| Province | Hainaut |
| Arrondissement | Ath |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Idesbalde Cauchie (cdH) (LB) |
| • Governing party | Liste du Bourgmestre (LB) - Ecolo |
| Area | |
• Total | 45.11 km2 (17.42 sq mi) |
| Postal codes | 7890 |
| NIS code | 51017 |
| Area codes | 068 |
| Website | www.ellezelles.be |
Ellezelles (French pronunciation: [ɛlzɛl] Audio file "LL-Q150 (fra)-Manestra-Ellezelles.wav" not found; 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.[1]
Notable people
[edit | edit source]- 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.[2]
- Richard Ely (born 1974 in Ellezelles) a Belgian writer, journalist and ethnobotanist.
References
[edit | edit source]External links
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