Hainaut
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history of Low Countries
- In history of the Low Countries: Unification after Alba
…in the south among Artois, Hainaut, and the town of Douay, based on the Pacification of Ghent but retaining the Roman Catholic religion, loyalty to the king, and the privileges of the estates. As a reaction to the accommodation of Artois and Hainaut, the Union of Utrecht was declared, at…
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physiography and development of Belgium
- In Belgium
…the five southern provinces (Hainaut, Namur, Liège, Walloon Brabant, and Luxembourg), and Flemings, a Flemish- (Dutch-) speaking people (more than one-half of the total population), who are concentrated in the five northern and
Read More - In Belgium: Cultural milieu
…Liège, Ghent, and Antwerp, while Hainaut remains the centre of the classical and popular traditions.
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significance to Belgium
- In history of the Low Countries: Upper Paleolithic (35,000–10,000 bp)
…site of Maisières Canal in Hainaut province, Belgium, is exceptional for its preservation of glacial fauna (from about 28,000 bp) in later river deposits. Several late Magdalenian sites (hunting stands) were discovered in southern (Belgian and Dutch) Limburg. A wide uninhabited area separated the Magdalenian sites from sites of the…
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