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Aalter (Municipality, Province of East Flanders, Belgium) (412 words) |
 | The municipality of Aalter (18,887 inhabitants on 1 January 20057; 8,192 ha) is located 15 km west of Ghent and 30 km east of Bruges. |
| The villa Helftra became later the seat of the County of Aalter, ruled by the lord of the Woestijne (lit., the Desert). |
| The municipal flag of Aalter is quartered, first and fourth, red with a white cross moline; second and third, yellow with a fl leopard with a red tongue and nails. |
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Aalter (985 words) |
| Aalter is situated in a green leafy region midway between Bruges and Ghent and central also between Eeklo and Tielt-Deinze. |
| Aalter was on the border of this great region of heath and woods that stretched from Bruges to Ghent in the Middle Ages. |
| Greater Aalter, as we call these new mega-towns here, is the result of the merger since 1 January 1977 of the towns of Aalter (described on this page), Bellem, Lotenhulle and Poeke. |
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