Editing Genappe

{{Infobox Belgium municipality
|name             = Genappe
|type             = city
|picture          = Grand Place Genappe.jpg
|picture-legend   =
|map              = Genappe Brabant-Wallon Belgium Map.svg
|map-legend       = The municipality of Genappe in Walloon Brabant
|arms             = Genappe wapen.svg
|flag             = Genappe Belgium.svg
|arrondissement   = [[Arrondissement of Nivelles|Nivelles]]
|nis              = 25031
|pyramid-date     =
|0-19=
|20-64=
|65=
|foreigners=
|foreigners-date  =
|mayor            = Gérard Couronné (MR)
|majority         = [[Reformist Movement|MR]] - [[Humanist Democratic Centre|cdH]]
|postal-codes     = 1470-1474, 1476
|telephone-area   = 067
|web              = [http://www.genappe.be/ www.genappe.be]
|coordinates      = {{coord|50|36|N|04|27|E|region:BE|display=inline,title}}
}}
'''Genappe''' ({{IPA|fr|ʒənap|-|LL-Q150 (fra)-Manestra-Genappe.wav}}; {{langx|nl|Genepiën}}, {{IPA|nl|ɣeːˈneːpijə(n)|-|Nl-Genepiën.ogg}}; {{langx|wa|Djinape}}) is a [[Municipalities of Belgium|municipality]] and [[City status in Belgium|city]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wet tot toekenning van de titel van stad aan de gemeenten Beringen, Bilzen, Blankenberge, Borgloon, Ciney, Couvin, Damme, Geel, Genepiën, Gistel, Halen, Hamont-Achel, Hannuit, Harelbeke, Herk-de-Stad, Lo-Reninge, Mesen, Oudenburg, Peer, Scherpenheuvel-Zichem, Vilvoorde en Walcourt |url=https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/eli/wet/1985/07/19/1985001298/staatsblad |date=19 July 1985 |lang=nl |website=www.ejustice.just.fgov.be |publisher=[[Belgian Official Gazette]] |access-date=22 April 2025}}</ref> of [[Wallonia]] located in the [[Belgium|Belgian]] [[Walloon Brabant|province of Walloon Brabant]]. 

== Demographics ==
As of 2023, the municipality of Genappe boasted a population of 14,266 residents.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Population of Cities in Belgium 2023 |url=https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/cities/belgium |access-date=2023-10-21 |website=worldpopulationreview.com}}</ref> Spanning a total area of 89.57 km<sup>2</sup> , the region has a [[population density]]  of 15,26 inhabitants per km<sup>2</sup>.

==History==
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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 history===
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 [[Fusion of the Belgian municipalities|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 cities==
* [[Narborough, Leicestershire|Narborough]], United Kingdom
* [[Littlethorpe, Leicestershire|Littlethorpe]], United Kingdom
* [[Franklin, Louisiana]], United States

==See also==
* [[List of protected heritage sites in Genappe]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline}}

{{Geographic location
|Centre = Genappe
|N  = [[Lasne]]
|NE = [[Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve]]
|E  = [[Court-Saint-Étienne]]<br/>[[Villers-la-Ville]]
|S  = [[Les Bons Villers]] ([[Hainaut (province)|WHT]])
|W  = [[Nivelles]]
|NW = [[Braine-l'Alleud]]
}}
{{Walloon Brabant}}
{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Genappe| ]]
[[Category:Cities in Wallonia]]
[[Category:Municipalities of Walloon Brabant]]


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