The Halle-Vilvoorde Arrondissement () is one of the two administrative

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s in the Belgian

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. It almost completely surrounds the

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and lies to the west of the other arrondissement in the province, the Leuven Arrondissement. Unlike the Arrondissement of Leuven, it is not a

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arrondissement; however since the

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in 2012–14, it has its own public prosecutor's service. The Halle-Vilvoorde Arrondissement and the Brussels-Capital Region together formed the Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde electoral district and the Judicial Arrondissement of Brussels. Following the 2007 federal election, Yves Leterme, who was in charge of the negotiations for forming a new

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, proposed to split up the Judicial Arrondissement of Brussels into two judicial arrondissements: one comprising Halle-Vilvoorde and the other comprising the Brussels Region.

History

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The Arrondissement of Halle-Vilvoorde was established in 1963 when the language borders were determined. At that time, the then Administrative Arrondissement of Brussels, which had the same territory as the present-day Judicial Arrondissement of Brussels, was split into three administrative arrondissements, two of which still exist today: * Brussels-Capital, which consists of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels Region; *Halle-Vilvoorde, a unilingual Dutch-speaking administrative arrondissement; * Brussels-Periphery, which consisted of the six Flemish

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for French-speakers around Brussels. On January 1, 1971, the Arrondissement of Brussels-Periphery ceased to exist and its municipalities were added to Halle-Vilvoorde. In 1977, the then municipality of Muizen ceased to exist and was ceded to the

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, in the

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Municipalities

The Administrative Arrondissement of Halle-Vilvoorde is made up of the following municipalities: * Affligem *

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* Beersel * Bever *

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* Drogenbos *

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* Halle * Hoeilaart * Kampenhout * Kapelle-op-den-Bos * Kraainem * Lennik * Liedekerke * Linkebeek * Londerzeel * Machelen * Meise * Merchtem * Opwijk * Overijse * Pajottegem *

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* Roosdaal * Sint-Genesius-Rode * Sint-Pieters-Leeuw * Steenokkerzeel * Ternat *

Vilvoorde Vilvoorde (; ; ; historically known as ''Filford'' in English) is a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality and City status in Belgium, city in the Halle-Vilvoorde district (''arrondissement'') of the Provinces of Belgium, province of Flemish Bra ...

* Wemmel * Wezembeek-Oppem * Zaventem * Zemst

Population

Population as of 1 January in recent years:

History

Municipalities

Population

References

See also