Hainaut (/ eɪ ˈ n oʊ /, also US: / h eɪ ˈ-, ɛ ˈ-/, UK: / ˈ (h) eɪ n oʊ /, French: ; Dutch: Henegouwen [ˈɦeːnəɣʌuə(n)] (); Walloon: Hinnot; Picard: Hénau), historically also known as Heynowes in English, is a province of Wallonia and Belgium.. To its south lies the French department of Nord, while within Belgium it borders (clockwise from the North) on the Flemish provinces of ...

East Flanders completes the top three with €19,927. Antwerp has €19,191, West Flanders has €19,184. Limburg clearly has the lowest average income in Flanders with €18,311. Hainaut is the poorest province (with the exception of Brussels) with €16,023. Jules Johnston.

The region immediately southwest of Mons is known as the Borinage, a poor, densely populated working-class area that, in the latter half of the nineteenth century, was one of Belgium’s three main coalfields, an ugly jigsaw of slag heaps and mining villages. The mining is finished, but the cramped terraced housing remains, a postindustrial ...

Introduction. Hainaut (Dutch: Henegouwen) is the westernmost province of Wallonia.It borders on (clockwise from the North) the Belgian provinces of West Flanders, East Flanders, Flemish Brabant, Walloon Brabant and Namur, and France.Its capital is Mons. It has a surface area of 3800 km², a population of 1,287,000 inhabitants, and is divided into seven administrative districts …

The County of Hainaut (French: Comté de Hainaut; Dutch: Graafschap Henegouwen; German: Grafschaft Hennegau; Latin: comitatus hanoniensis), sometimes spelled Hainault, was a territorial lordship within the medieval Holy Roman Empire that straddled what is now the border of Belgium and France.Its most important towns included Mons (Dutch: Bergen), now in Belgium, and …

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 ...

a. Click on this link to see a list of records for Belgium, Hainaut. b. Click on "Places within Belgium, Hainaut" and a list of towns and cities will open. c. Click on the town or city you wish to search. d. Click on "Civil Registration" topic. Click on the blue links to specific record titles. e. Choose the correct event and time period for your ancestor. f.

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Contents: Cities and Municipalities The population of all cities and municipalities in the Province of Hainaut according to official estimates. The icon links to further information about a selected place including its population structure (gender, age groups, age distribution, nationality).

Belgium, Hainaut, Civil Registration, 1600-1913. Civil registration of births, marriages and deaths from the Belgium National Archives. The collection also includes marriage proclamations, marriage supplements, and some original indexes. Additional images will be added as they become available. How to Use This Collection.