Arrondissement administratif de Mouscron

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L'arrondissement administratif de Mouscron est un ancien arrondissement administratif de la province de Hainaut en Région wallonne (Belgique). Cet arrondissement administratif faisait partie de l'arrondissement judiciaire du Hainaut.

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Arrondissement of Mouscron

The Arrondissement of Mouscron is a former arrondissement in the Walloon province of Hainaut, Belgium. It is not a judicial arrondissement. Its municipalities are a part of the Judicial Arrondissement of Tournai. The arrondissement was created in 1963 after several municipalities were transferred from the Dutch-speaking province of West Flanders to French-speaking Hainaut following the language laws of 1962. In 2019 it was merged into the new Arrondissement of Tournai-Mouscron.

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Stade Le Canonnier

Le Canonnier is a multi-use stadium in Mouscron, Belgium. It is currently used mostly for football matches and was the home ground of Royal Excel Mouscron until the club was folded in 2022. The stadium holds 10,800 people.

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Aalbeke

Aalbeke is a village in the Belgian province of West Flanders and since 1977 a part of Kortrijk. 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, Lauwe and Marke. Nearby Aalbeke, the interchange of the E17 and E403 is located.

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Battle of Mouscron

The Battle of Mouscron was a series of clashes that occurred when the Republican French Army of the North under Jean-Charles Pichegru moved northeast to attack Menin and was opposed by Coalition forces under the overall leadership of François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt. In their initial advance, the French began the siege of Menin and captured Courtrai. With Habsburg Austrian reinforcements, Clerfayt counterattacked on the 28th but Joseph Souham soon massed superior French forces and drove the Coalition troops out of the area. This Flanders Campaign action happened during the War of the First Coalition, part of the French Revolutionary Wars. The battle occurred near Mouscron, Belgium, located at the French border 9 kilometres south of Kortrijk and at Menen, located 11 kilometres west of Kortrijk. Because most of the Coalition army was covering the Siege of Landrecies, the early French advance was largely successful in driving back a weak screen of Hanoverian troops. On the north bank of the Lys River, a division under Jean Victor Marie Moreau besieged Menen, while Souham's division operated on the south bank. Clerfayt's foray enjoyed initial success at Mouscron, but Souham on his own initiative concentrated superior forces against the Coalition. Completely isolated by Clerfayt's defeat, the largely Hanoverian garrison of Menin under Rudolf von Hammerstein broke out of the fortress and escaped on the 30th. The next action occurred at the Battle of Courtrai on 10 May.

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Mouscron

Mouscron is a municipality and city of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Hainaut, along the border with the French city of Tourcoing, which is part of the Lille metropolitan area. The municipality consists of the following districts: Dottignies, Herseaux, Luingne, and Mouscron. In accordance with the national law, the municipality offers facilities for the Dutch speaking minority. Kortrijk, in Flanders, is located just to the north of Mouscron. The city substantially grew during the 19th and early 20th century with the development of the textile industry in the north of France. The symbol of the city is the Hurlu: a character representing Protestant activists, who plundered the countryside during the Wars of Religion.

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L'arrondissement de Mouscron a été créé en 1963 après la fixation définitive de la frontière linguistique en Belgique. Les anciennes communes de Houthem, Comines, Bas-Warneton, Ploegsteert (ainsi que le hameau Clef d'Hollande de la commune de Neuve-Église) et Warneton furent transférées de l'arrondissement administratif d'Ypres ; les communes de Dottignies, Herseaux, Luingne et Mouscron (ainsi que le hameau de Risquons-Tout de la commune de Rekkem) furent transférées de l'arrondissement administratif de Courtrai. L'arrondissement est fusionné le 1er janvier 2019 avec l'arrondissement administratif de Tournai pour former l'arrondissement administratif de Tournai-Mouscron par décret du 25 janvier 2018 modifiant des articles relatifs au code de la démocratie locale et de la décentralisation de la région wallonne.