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Steenkerque (French; nl, Steenkerke; in older English references also ''Steenkerke'', ''Steenkirk'', ''Steinkerque'', ''Steinkerke'' or ''Steinkirk''; wa, Stinkerke) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Braine-le-Comte, located in Hainaut Province, Belgium, south-west of Brussels and south of Enghien. Steenkerque is notable for the Battle of Steenkerque in 1692 during the Nine Years' War, when France defeated a joint English-Scottish-Dutch-German army. The French movie ''The African Doctor'' (in French ''Bienvenue à Marly-Gomont'') was shot in this village in 2015.


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* Former municipalities of Hainaut (province) {{Hainaut-geo-stub