Brunehaut (; ; ) is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

Wallonia Wallonia ( ; ; or ), officially the Walloon Region ( ; ), is one of the three communities, regions and language areas of Belgium, regions of Belgium—along with Flemish Region, Flanders and Brussels. Covering the southern portion of the c ...

located in the

province of Hainaut A province is an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman , which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outside Italy. The term ''provin ...

Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeas ...

. The municipality consists of the following districts: Bléharies (town centre), Guignies, Hollain, Howardries, Jollain-Merlin, Laplaigne,

Lesdain Lesdain () is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. Heraldry See also *Communes of the Nord department The following is a list of the 647 communes of the Nord department of the French Republic. The communes cooperate in ...

, Rongy, and

Wez-Velvain Wez-Velvain () is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Brunehaut, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. It was a municipality of its own before the 1977 fusion of the Belgian municipalities. Wez-Velvain is made of ...

. File:Bléharies - Maison communale Brunehaut 1.jpg, Brunehaut town hall Pierre Brunehault (DSC 0775).jpg, ''Pierre Brunehaut''

menhir A menhir (; from Brittonic languages: ''maen'' or ''men'', "stone" and ''hir'' or ''hîr'', "long"), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large upright stone, emplaced in the ground by humans, typically dating from the European middle Br ...

Twin towns

Brunehaut is twinned with

Amfreville, Calvados Amfreville () is a Communes of France, commune in the Calvados (department), Calvados Departments of France, department in the Normandy (administrative region), Normandy Regions of France, region of north-western France. Geography Amfreville is ...

in France.

References

External links

* Municipalities of Hainaut (province) {{Hainaut-geo-stub