inhabitants. In such cases, the districts have elected "district councils" and a "district college", but only Antwerp has made use of that provision. Other cities...
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Antwerp (/ˈæntwɜːrp/ ; Dutch: Antwerpen [ˈɑntʋɛrpə(n)] ; French: Anvers [ɑ̃vɛʁs] ) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is...
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Antwerp District coincided with the city of Antwerp until 1958. Since the municipality and contemporary city of Antwerp in the Flemish Region of Belgium...
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4182508 Antwerp's diamond district, also known as the Diamond Quarter (Diamantkwartier), and dubbed the Square Mile, is an area within the city of Antwerp, Belgium...
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Berchem (redirect from Berchem (Antwerp))
Brussels to Antwerp for several centuries; the town borders the districts of Deurne, Borgerhout, Wilrijk and Antwerp and the municipality of Mortsel. Berchem...
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Deurne, Belgium (redirect from Deurne, Antwerp)
[ˈdøːrnə] ) is the second largest district of the municipality of Antwerp, Belgium, (right after the Antwerp town district) and has 82,270 inhabitants (2023)...
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The Art Nouveau movement of architecture and design appeared in Antwerp, Belgium, between roughly 1898 and the start of the First World War in 1914. It...
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Wilrijk (category Districts of Antwerp)
of Antwerp was decentralized in 2000 and Wilrijk became one of the city's nine districts. This suburb is also known as the Goat village, because of its...
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Ekeren (category Districts of Antwerp)
(also counting branches in some other districts of the city of Antwerp, and one in the nearby municipality of Kapellen). The academy hosts many musical...
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Borgerhout (category Districts of Antwerp)
diverse population, with 63% percent of inhabitants having non-Belgian ancestry. Of the nine districts of Antwerp, it has the highest population density...
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Antwerp Football Club (commonly referred to as Royal Antwerp or simply Antwerp) is a Belgian professional football club based in the city of Antwerp....
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In Belgium Antwerp (district) Antwerp (province) In the United States Antwerp, Ohio Antwerp Township, Michigan Antwerp, New York Antwerp (village), New...
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The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (Dutch: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen; KMSKA) is a museum in Antwerp, Belgium, founded in 1810...
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Hoboken may refer to: Hoboken, Antwerp, a district of Antwerp, Belgium Hoboken, Alabama, United States Hoboken, Georgia, United States Hoboken, New Jersey...
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southern district of the arrondissement and city of Antwerp, in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located at the Scheldt river. The name of the district has...
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Elections in Belgium (redirect from Elections of Belgium)
the provincial councils, the municipal councils and the councils of Districts of Antwerp. Voting is mandatory in federal elections, and all elections use...
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The Antwerp diamond heist, dubbed the "heist of the century", was the largest ever diamond heist and one of the largest robberies in history. Thieves...
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The history of the Jews in Antwerp, a major city in the modern country of Belgium, goes back at least eight hundred years. Jewish life was first recorded...
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The Palace of Justice of Antwerp (Dutch: Justitiepaleis Antwerpen) commonly known as the Antwerp Law Courts (Dutch: Gerechtsgebouw Antwerpen), De Frietzakken...
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is the main shopping street in Antwerp, Belgium. It is the most important shopping area in the country, both by number of shoppers and by rent prices. The...
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Berendrecht-Zandvliet-Lillo (category Districts of Antwerp)
decentralisation of this enlarged municipality of Antwerp, while these three towns merged into one of the city's districts, called Berendrecht-Zandvliet-Lillo or...
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around the world, including: Antwerp diamond district, Belgium Surat Diamond Bourse, Surat, India Diamond Exchange District, Israel Hatton Garden, London...
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The demographics of Antwerp are monitored by Statistics Belgium. The population of the city as of 2022 is currently 530,630. Antwerp as a city has grown...
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other forms of pimping are illegal. Enforcement varies, and in some areas brothels are unofficially tolerated. Most of the red-light districts (RLDs) in...
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Museum aan de Stroom (category Museums in Antwerp)
Scheldt in the Eilandje district of Antwerp, Belgium. It opened in May 2011 and is the largest museum in Antwerp. In 1998 the Antwerp city council decided...
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Merksem (category Districts of Antwerp)
Merxem) is a district of the municipality and city of Antwerp in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It has 44,808 inhabitants as of 2021. The history of Merksem...
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The Antwerp tramway network (Dutch: Het Antwerpse tramnet) is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Antwerp, a city in the...
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Arrondissement of Antwerp (Dutch: Arrondissement Antwerpen; French: Arrondissement d'Anvers) is one of the three administrative arrondissements in Antwerp Province...
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site of the Reservoir War in 1887. Antwerp is the birthplace of Asa Long, the checkers player. The place is named after the Belgian city of Antwerp. Antwerp...
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Van Wesenbekestraat (redirect from Chinatown, Antwerp)
Van Wesenbekestraat a street in Antwerp, Belgium. Historically supporting the Chinese community that settled in Antwerp post-World War II, today Chinatown...
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