Aalbeke is a village in the Belgian province of
West Flanders
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and since 1977 a part of
Kortrijk
Kortrijk ( , ; vls, Kortryk or ''Kortrik''; french: Courtrai ; la, Cortoriacum), sometimes known in English as Courtrai or Courtray ( ), is a Belgian city and municipality in the Flemish province of West Flanders.
It is the capital and larges ...
. Aalbeke has 8511 as a postal code and covers an area of 717 ha. The district had 2,953 inhabitants on December 31, 2007.
Aalbeke is located 6 km southwest of the central area of Kortrijk and is surrounded by
Rollegem,
Mouscron
Mouscron (; Dutch and vls, Moeskroen, ; Picard and Walloon: ''Moucron'') is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Hainaut, along the border with the French city of Tourcoing, which is part of the Lille metropo ...
,
Lauwe and
Marke. Nearby Aalbeke, the interchange of the E17 and E403 is located.
Mayors
*Jacob van de Kerckhove (1679–1699)
*Willem de Schynckele (1699–1706)
*Joost Cannaert (1706–1717)
*Cornelius van den Bulcke (1717–1734)
*Noël de Praetere (1734–1740)
*Jan Lesaege (1748–1755)
*Pieter Cannaert (1755–1761)
*Jan van den Bulcke (1761–1763)
*Jan-Baptist de Kimpe (1763–1775)
*Pieter Cannaert (1775–1789)
*Antoon-Frans Lienaert (1789–1792)
*Jan de Kimpe (1792–1798)
*Pieter Lerouge (1798–1808)
*Jan-Baptist Cannaert (1808–1815)
*Jan-Jacob Cottignies (1815–1829)
*Joseph-Bernard Berton (1829–1842)
*Honoré Dufaux (1843–1852)
*Pieter-Jan Margo (1852–1857)
*Victor Pycke (1858–1868)
*Jean-Louis Mullier (1868–1895)
*Henri Bonte (1896–1931)
*Henri Castel (1931–1932)
*Edward Torreele (1933–1939)
*Alphons Ovaere (1942–1944)
*René Bonte (1944–1946)
*Georges Gheysen (1946)
*René Vanhoenackere (1947–1964)
*Georges Neirynck (1965–1976)
Sub-municipalities of Kortrijk
Populated places in West Flanders
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