Genappe
Template:Infobox Belgium municipality Genappe ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; Template:Langx, {{#invoke:IPA|main}}; Template:Langx) is a municipality and city<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant.
DemographicsEdit
As of 2023, the municipality of Genappe boasted a population of 14,266 residents.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Spanning a total area of 89.57 km2 , the region has a population density of 15,26 inhabitants per km2.
HistoryEdit
Template:Expand section Although his birthplace was probably Boulogne-sur-Mer, one 13th-century chronicler cites Baisy (now Baisy-Thy in Genappe), as the birthplace of Godfrey of Bouillon, the best-known leader of the First Crusade (1096-1099).<ref>L. Bréhier, "Godfrey of Bouillon" in The Catholic Encyclopedia (1909), citing Haigneré, Mémoires lus à la Sorbonne, Paris, 1868, 213</ref>
Postal historyEdit
The Genappe post-office opened before 1830. It used a postal code 48 with bars (before 1864), and 145 with points before 1870. BOUSVAL opened on 8 April 1880.<ref>Catalogue Spécialisé des Oblitérations Belges, 1849-1910, Nationale en Internationale Postzegelmanifestaties Antwerpen (NIPA), Antwerp, 1999.</ref>
Postal codes in 1969 (before the merger of municipalities in 1977):<ref>Liste des Numéros Postaux, Administration des Postes, Bruxelles 1969.</ref> - 1470 Genappe - 1471 Loupoigne - 1472 Vieux-Genappe - 1473 Glabais - 1474 Ways - 1475 Baisy-Thy - 1476 Houtain-le-Val - 1488 Bousval.
Twinned citiesEdit
- Narborough, United Kingdom
- Littlethorpe, United Kingdom
- Franklin, Louisiana, United States
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