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Official site. Walloon Brabant ( French: Brabant wallon [bʁabɑ̃ walɔ̃] ⓘ; Dutch: Waals-Brabant [ˌʋaːlz ˈbraːbɑnt] ⓘ; Walloon: Roman Payis) is a province located in Belgium 's French-speaking region of Wallonia. It borders on (clockwise from the North) the province of Flemish Brabant ( Flemish Region) and the provinces of Liège ...
The Walloon name and language are also extended into the adjacent districts of the neighbouring Provinces. A large part of Brabant, where that Province borders on Haynault and Namur, is named Walloon Brabant. The affinity of language seems also on some occasions to have wrought a nearer relation." The Belgian revolution of 1830
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Brabant was an old region, the Duchy of Brabant. The word Brabant appears for the first time in the seventh century when the abbey of Nivelles was founded in the pagus Bracbatensis [5] ( pagus is a Latin word meaning a very small town, with only few houses). Walloon Brabant is the youngest and the smallest province of Belgium.
Walloon literature, the body of written works produced by Belgians in the local dialects of French and Latin origin known as Walloon, which is spoken in the modern Belgian provinces of Hainaut, Liège, Namur, Luxembourg, and Walloon Brabant.
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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, Belgium; some villages near Givet, northern France; and a clutch of communities in northeastern Wisconsin, U.S. [4] It belongs to the langues d'oïl language family, the most prominent ...
Walloon Brabant. Walloon Brabant is a province of the Wallonia region of southern Belgium . 3 Louvain-la-Neuve — A newly built university town. 4 Villers-la-Ville — Home to the Villers Abbey, one of the most beautiful ruins of Belgium. 5 Waterloo — Famous for the Battle of Waterloo, the battlefield area is the most visited in the province.
Francien dialect, the medieval dialect of Old French that furnishes the basis for the literary and official form of the modern French language. Francien was spoken in the region of Île-de-France, which included the city of Paris, and its preeminence is an indication of the political and intellectual prominence of Paris in the 13th and 14th ...
