• Thumbnail for Dyle (department)
    Dyle (French: [dil], Dutch: Dijle) was a department of the French First Republic and French First Empire in present-day Belgium. It was named after the...
    8 KB (406 words) - 11:18, 21 August 2024
  • Dyle may refer to: Dyle (river), a river in central Belgium, tributary of the Rupel Dyle, Poland, a village Dyle plan, a French plan for defending against...
    334 bytes (81 words) - 16:13, 10 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dyle (river)
    The Dyle (French: [dil]; Dutch: Dijle [ˈdɛilə]) is a river in central Belgium, left tributary of the Rupel. It is 86 kilometres (53 mi) long. It flows...
    4 KB (316 words) - 11:49, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Waterloo, Belgium
    territories were divided into nine departments. Some municipalities, including Waterloo, became part of the Dyle department, which became the province of Brabant...
    17 KB (1,951 words) - 06:50, 21 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Province of Brabant
    Netherlands. In the newly created kingdom, the former French département of Dyle became the new province of South Brabant, distinguishing it from Central...
    9 KB (451 words) - 16:15, 11 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Duchy of Brabant
    reorganised in the départements of Deux-Nèthes (present province of Antwerp) and Dyle (the later province of Brabant). After the defeat of Bonaparte in 1815, the...
    23 KB (2,560 words) - 06:57, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Departments of France
    In the administrative divisions of France, the department (French: département, pronounced [depaʁtəmɑ̃] ) is one of the three levels of government under...
    78 KB (3,220 words) - 18:48, 18 August 2024
  • regions. The only major exceptions were the bilingual Dyle and Forêts departments. The departments would eventually become the provinces of the United Kingdom...
    115 KB (13,026 words) - 19:28, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brussels
    and annexed by France, and the city became the chef-lieu of the department of the Dyle. The French rule ended in 1815, with the defeat of Napoleon on the...
    252 KB (22,201 words) - 21:29, 24 August 2024
  • Renaissance painting - Duffel - Dupuis, Jacques - Dutroux, Marc - Dyle (department) - Jacqueline Dyris East Flanders - East Flemish - Ecolo - Economy...
    31 KB (3,053 words) - 14:18, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of mayors of Leuven
    This is a list of the mayors of Leuven. Dyle department was created on 1 October 1795, when the Austrian Netherlands was officially annexed by the French...
    8 KB (209 words) - 15:34, 23 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for 130 departments of the First French Empire
    This is a list of the 130 departments (French: départements), the conventional name for the administrative subdivisions of the First French Empire at...
    9 KB (171 words) - 10:59, 15 February 2024
  • established. 1786 – Seminary established. 1795 – City becomes part of the Dyle (department) of the French First Republic. 1804 – City becomes part of the First...
    15 KB (1,133 words) - 19:01, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Luttre
    in 9 departments. Some municipalities, including that of the new Pont-à-Celles, were withdrawn from Nivelles (which went to the Dyle department, later...
    8 KB (1,235 words) - 11:49, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chastre
    Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, in 946. Chastre was a municipality of the Dyle department under the French regime. The Chastre-Villeroux post office opened on...
    7 KB (764 words) - 06:49, 21 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arrondissement of Nivelles
    Arrondissement of Nivelles consists of the following 27 municipalities: Dyle (department) "Chiffres de population au 1er janvier 2022" (PDF). Federal Public...
    4 KB (96 words) - 03:28, 6 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for British Expeditionary Force (World War II)
    Western Front. The BEF participated in the Dyle Plan, a rapid advance into Belgium to the line of the Dyle River, but the 1st Army Group had to retreat...
    70 KB (9,438 words) - 13:11, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arrondissement of Brussels
    Brabant, Belgium, or before Belgium's independence forming the French Dyle department. The arrondissement was split in 1963 upon the fixation of the language...
    1 KB (115 words) - 17:28, 7 March 2021
  • Thumbnail for Ottenburg
    occupation (1795–1815), Ottenburg was known as Ottenbourg and was in the department of the Dyle. Paul Splingaerd (1842–1906), who became a mandarin in China, lived...
    2 KB (193 words) - 17:36, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mechelen
    and Muizen. The river Dyle (Dijle) flows through the city, hence it is often referred to as the Dijlestad ("City on the Dyle"). Mechelen lies on the...
    37 KB (3,774 words) - 02:56, 21 August 2024
  • United Kingdom of the Netherlands, based on earlier French département of the Dyle, became part of Belgium in 1830, now divided into three parts (see above)...
    3 KB (467 words) - 14:12, 3 July 2024
  • 1798 in Belgium (category Former departments of France in Belgium)
    Belgium) in 1795 and had reorganised the territory as the nine departments Dyle, Escaut (department), Forêts, Jemmape, Lys, Meuse-Inférieure, Deux-Nèthes, Ourthe...
    3 KB (280 words) - 22:59, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sedan, Ardennes
    Sedan, Ardennes (category Communes of Ardennes (department))
    Allied Forces that were advancing east into Belgium, as part of the Allied Dyle Plan strategy. Today Sedan is known for its castle, which is claimed to be...
    9 KB (874 words) - 06:51, 21 August 2024
  • Madison (Brian Madison (Darren McGavin)) Charade (2004 DVD edition) (Carson Dyle (Walter Matthau)) Charlie's Angels (Additional voice) The Chronicles of Narnia:...
    31 KB (2,692 words) - 22:25, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Maginot Line
    line was weak near the Ardennes. General Maurice Gamelin, when drafting the Dyle Plan, believed this region, with its rough terrain, would be an unlikely...
    61 KB (7,966 words) - 18:41, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Natural borders of France
    annexation of Belgium on October 1, 1795, creating the nine Belgian départements: Dyle, Deux-Nèthes, Escaut, Forêts, Jemmape, Lys, Ourte, Meuse-Inférieure, and...
    11 KB (1,419 words) - 22:57, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Palace of Laeken
    On 21 July 1803, Nicolas-Jean Rouppe, the commissioner of the department of the Dyle, received Napoleon at the Palace of Laeken. Napoleon stayed there...
    16 KB (1,577 words) - 17:24, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Sedan (1940)
    Battle of Sedan (1940) (category History of Ardennes (department))
    Allied forces that were advancing east into Belgium, as part of the Allied Dyle Plan. Sedan is situated on the east bank of the Meuse. Its capture would...
    71 KB (9,866 words) - 14:46, 16 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wormhoudt massacre
    Wormhoudt massacre (category History of Nord (French department))
    Grebbeberg Afsluitdijk Rotterdam Blitz Belgium Fort Eben-Emael K-W Line Dyle Plan David Hannut Gembloux Lys Ypres–Comines Canal Luxembourg Schuster Line...
    11 KB (1,093 words) - 16:46, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for French Third Republic
    far removed from French territory as possible. This strategy, known as the Dyle Plan, fitted with Belgian defensive plans and also with British objectives...
    160 KB (20,513 words) - 14:11, 27 August 2024