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    Walloons (/wɒˈluːnz/; French: Wallons [walɔ̃] ; Walloon: Walons) are a Gallo-Romance ethnic group native to Wallonia and the immediate adjacent regions...
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  • William the Walloon (date of birth unknown; d. (probably) 22 December 1089) was a Benedictine Abbot who served as the head of St. Arnoul at Metz in 1050...
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  • Walloon (/wɒˈluːn/; natively walon; French: wallon) is a Romance language that is spoken in much of Wallonia and, to a very small extent, in Brussels...
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    Wallonia (redirect from The Walloon region)
    [walɔni]; Walloon: Waloneye or Walonreye), officially the Walloon Region (French: Région wallonne; Walloon: Redjon walone), is one of the three regions...
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    November 11 – Peter Igneus, Italian cardinal-bishop December 22 – William the Walloon, French abbot Agnes of Aquitaine, French-born countess consort of...
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    Luxembourg (Belgium) (category Articles containing Walloon-language text)
    ; Walloon: Lussimbork), also called Belgian Luxembourg or West Luxembourg, is the southernmost province of Wallonia within Belgium. It borders the country...
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  • November 11 – Peter Igneus, Italian cardinal-bishop December 22 – William the Walloon, French abbot Agnes of Aquitaine, French-born countess consort of...
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    [ʒɔdɔɲ] ; Walloon: Djodogne [dʒɔdɔɲ] ; Dutch: Geldenaken [ˈɣɛldəˌnaːkə(n)]) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Walloon Brabant...
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  • The Walloon Movement traces its ancestry to 1856 when literary and folkloric movements based around the Society of Walloon language and literature [fr]...
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  • The history of Walloon immigration to Sweden begins with industrialists Guillaume de Bèche (Willem de Besche; 1573–1629) and Louis De Geer (1587–1652)...
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    The Walloons is a comedy play by the British writer Richard Cumberland. It was first staged at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London in April 1782...
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  • (Imperialist-Walloon) Bucquoy Heavy Cavalry (Imperialist-Walloon) Free Coy (Imperialist-High German) Croats Light Cavalry (Imperialist-Croatian) Welsh, William E...
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    London 1905 A Walloon regiment that was established in June of 1684 for France. It was destroyed at Battle of Blenheim. Origin of the French infantry...
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    revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Frederick William encouraged skilled French and Walloon Huguenots to emigrate to Brandenburg-Prussia with the Edict of Potsdam...
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    Pierrepoint on 3 January 1946, making him the last person to be executed for treason in the United Kingdom. William Brooke Joyce was born on Herkimer Street...
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    basket-hilts: the Walloon hilt, the Sinclair hilt, schiavona, mortuary sword, Scottish broadsword, and some types of eastern European pallasches. The mortuary...
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    The Huguenot-Walloon half dollar or Huguenot-Walloon Tercentenary half dollar is a commemorative coin issued by the United States Bureau of the Mint in...
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    autonomous regions: the Flemish Region (Flanders) in the north, the Walloon Region (Wallonia) in the south, and the Brussels-Capital Region in the middle. Brussels...
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    Carver and his wife Mary were members of the Walloon church in Leiden, Holland on February 8, 1609. The Flemish Walloon community was fleeing religious persecution...
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    the Walloons and the US Constitution of 1787, and how their ideas made a lasting contribution to this country, though at the time (1923) the Walloons...
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    Liège (category Articles containing Walloon-language text)
    [ljɛʒ] ; Walloon: Lîdje [liːtʃ]; Dutch: Luik [lœyk] ; German: Lüttich [ˈlʏtɪç] ) is a city and municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the province...
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    Brès, a Walloon Reformed pastor, active in the Low Countries, who died a martyr to the faith in 1567, during the Dutch Reformation.: 185  The name Belgic...
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    brothers, Nicolas and Edward, both also active in football. Growing up in the Walloon region, near Brussels, he went to a French language school and then learned...
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    Waterloo, Belgium (category Articles containing Walloon-language text)
    French pronunciation: [watɛʁlo] ; Walloon: Waterlô) is a municipality in Wallonia, located in the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium, which in 2011 had...
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    Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbɛrɣə(n)] ; Walloon and Picard: Mont) is a city and municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the province of Hainaut, Belgium. Mons...
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    William Dudley Pelley (March 12, 1890 – June 30, 1965) was an American fascist activist, journalist, writer and occultist, noted for his support of German...
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  • This is a list of members of the Walloon Parliament between 1999 and 2004, following the direct elections of 1999. Patrick Avril replaced Laurette Onkelinx...
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    Waterloo 1815 Memorial (category Tourist attractions in Walloon Brabant)
    Braine-l'Alleud, in the province of Walloon Brabant. The Hougoumont farm stands to the south-west of the aforementioned complex, at the end of a path that...
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    Rattachism (category Walloon movement)
    in Flanders. The Rattachist ideology is associated with a faction of the Walloon Movement and is advocated by the political parties Walloon Rally and Wallonia–France...
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    Léon Degrelle (category Walloon people)
    Belgian Walloon politician and Nazi collaborator. He rose to prominence in Belgium in the 1930s as the leader of the Rexist Party (Rex). During the German...
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