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Dinant
Geography
Country	Belgium
Region	Walloon Region
Community	French Community
Province	Namur
Arrondissement	Dinant
Coordinates	50°16′N 04°55′E
Area	99.80 km²
Population (Source: NIS)
Population – Males – Females - Density	13,012 (01/01/2006) 48.16% 51.84% 130 inhab./km²
Age distribution 0–19 years 20–64 years 65+ years	(01/01/2006) 24.78% 57.28% 17.94%
Foreigners	3.52% (01/07/2005)
Economy
Unemployment rate	22.17% (01/01/2006)
Mean annual income	10,529 €/pers. (2003)
Government
Mayor	Richard Fournaux (LDB)
Governing parties	LDB
Other information
Postal codes	5500, 5501, 5502, 5503, 5504
Area codes	082
Web address	www.dinant.be

The tower of Notre-Dame, seen from the citadel

Dinant is a municipality located on the River Meuse in the Belgian province of Namur, Belgium. The Dinant municipality includes the old communes of Anseremme, Bouvignes-sur-Meuse, Dréhance, Falmagne, Falmignoul, Foy-Notre-Dame, Furfooz, Lisogne, Sorinnes, and Thynes. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links RedDot. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This is an alphabetical list of countries of the world, including independent states (both those that are internationally recognised and generally unrecognised), inhabited dependent territories and areas of special sovereignty. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Belgium_(civil). ... Belgium is a federal state and is composed of three communities, three regions, and four linguistic regions. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Wallonia. ... National motto: Walon todi ! 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History

Origins to the 10th century

The Dinant area was already populated in Neolithic, Celtic, and Roman times. The first mention of Dinant as a settlement dates from the 7th century, a time at which Saint Perpete, a Tongeren-Maastricht bishop, took Dinant as his residence and founded the church of Saint Vincent. In 870, Charles the Bald gave part of Dinant to be administered by the Count of Namur, the other part by the bishop of Tongeren, then Liège. In the 11th century, the emperor Henry IV granted several rights on Dinant to the Prince-Bishop of Liège, including market and justice rights. From that time on, the city became one of the 23 ‘’bonnes villes’’ (or principal cities) of the Bishopric of Liège. The first stone bridge on the Meuse and major repair to the castle, which had been built earlier, also date from the end of the 11th century. Throughout this period, and until the end of the 18th century, Dinant shared its history with its overlord Liège, sometimes raising in revolt against it, sometimes partaking in its victories and defeats, mostly against the neighbouring County of Namur. An array of Neolithic artifacts, including bracelets, axe heads, chisels, and polishing tools. ... This article is about the European people. ... Area under Roman control  Roman Republic  Roman Empire  Western Empire  Eastern Empire Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a city-state founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. ... The 7th century is the period from 601 - 700 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era. ... Tongeren is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg near Hasselt. ... Flag of Maastricht. ... Events February 28 - End of the Fourth Council of Constantinople. ... Charles the Bald - Detail from a painting in the First Bible of Charles the Bald, painted ca. ... Namur, the Meuse, the Walloon parliament and the citadel. ... Liege or Liège has several meanings: A liege is the person or entity to which one has pledged allegiance. ... As a means of recording the passage of time, the 11th century was that century which lasted from 1001 to 1100. ... HEINRIC·IMP[ERATOR], Emperor Henry Henry IV (November 11, 1050 – August 7, 1106) was King of Germany (Holy Roman Empire) from 1056 and Emperor from 1084, until his abdication in 1105. ... Prince-Bishop was the title given bishops who held secular powers, beside their inherent clerical power. ... Liege or Liège has several meanings: A liege is the person or entity to which one has pledged allegiance. ... The Bishopric of Liège in 1477. ... The Meuse (Maas) at Maastricht Meuse near Grave The Meuse (Dutch & German Maas) is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ...

Late Middle Ages

Its strategic location on the Meuse exposed Dinant to battle and pillage, not always by avowed enemies: in 1466, Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, uncle of Louis de Bourbon who had become Prince-Bishop of Liège, and Philip’s son Charles the Bold punished an uprising in Dinant by casting 800 burghers into the Meuse and setting fire to the city. The city's economic rival was Bouvignes, downriver on the opposite shore of the Meuse. Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (Philip the Good or Philippe le Bon) (July 31, 1396 – June 15, 1467) was Duke of Burgundy from 1419 until his death. ... Charles the Bold Charles, called the Bold (French: Charles le Téméraire) (November 10, 1433 – 1477) was Duke of Burgundy from 1467 to 1477. ...

Late Medieval Dinant and Bouvignes specialized in metalwork, producing finely cast and finished objects in a silvery brass alloy, called dinanderie and supplying aquamaniles, candlesticks, patens and other altar furniture throughout the Meuse valley (giving these objects their cautious designation "Mosan"), the Rhineland and beyond. Henri Pirenne gained his doctorate in 1883 with a thesis on medieval Dinant. Henri Pirenne (December 23, 1862, Verviers - October 25, 1935, Uccle) was a leading Belgian historian. ...

The Old Regime and World War I

In the 16th- and 17th-century wars between France and Spain, Dinant suffered destruction, famine and epidemics, despite its neutrality. In 1675, the French army under Marshal François de Créquy occupied the city. Dinant was briefly taken by the Austrians at the end of the 18th century. The whole Bishopric of Liège was ceded to France in 1795. The dinanderies fell out of fashion and the economy of the city now rested on leather tanning and the manufacture of playing cards. The famous couques de Dinant also appeared at that time. (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ... As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700 in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events January 5 - The Battle of Turckeim June 18 - Battle of Fehrbellin August 10 - King Charles II of England places the foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London - construction begins November 11 - Guru Gobind Singh becomes the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs. ... François, chevalier de Créquy and marquis de Marines, marshal of France (1625-1687). ... 1795 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

The city suffered devastation again in 1914. That year, 674 inhabitants were summarily executed by the German imperial troops, which led to the death of thousands of people in a bit more than a month, and to the decision by millions of people in 1944 to flee at the first signs of fighting. 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...

Sights

• The city's landmark is the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame (illustration, right), rebuilt in Gothic style on its old foundations after falling rocks from an adjacent cliff partially destroyed the former Romanesque church in 1227. Several stages for paired west end towers were completed before the project was abandoned in favor of the present central tower with its highly-recognizable onion dome and facetted multi-staged lantern.

• Above the church rises the vertical flank of the rocher surmounted by the fortified Citadel that was first built in the 11th century to control the Meuse valley. The Prince-Bishops of Liège rebuilt and enlarged it in 1530; the French destroyed it in 1703. Its present aspect, with the rock-hewn stairs (408 steps), is due to rebuilding in 1821, during the United Kingdom of the Netherlands phase of Dinant's checkered history. Further fighting took place during the World War I: among the wounded was Lieut. Charles de Gaulle.

• Apart from the main block is the Rocher Bayard that would have been split by the giant hoof of Bayard, the horse carrying the four sons of Aymon on their legendary flight from Charlemagne through the Ardennes, told in a famous 12th-century chanson de geste.

Night: the citadel, the church-tower and the Meuse

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Culture

• The Flamiche is the local version of quiche
• The couque is Europe's hardest biscuit (American "cookie"), with a honey-sweetened flavor that is impressed with a carved wooden mold before baking.

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Born in Dinant

• David of Dinant, philosopher (birth in Dinant is uncertain, 12th century)
• Joachim Patenier, 1485 - 1524, painter
• Antoine Joseph Wiertz, painter (19th century)
• Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone (19th century)
• Georges Pire, Dominican monk and Nobel Peace Prize recipient (20th century)
• André Buzin, artist and stamp designer (20th century)

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Twin cities

•  France: Dinan
•  Portugal: Caldas da Rainha
•  United Kingdom: Broxbourne
•  United Kingdom: Hoddesdon
•  Greece: Chios

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External links

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Dinant

• Official web site in French, Dutch, and English
• Citadel of Dinant: Official web site

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	Municipalities in the province of Namur, Wallonia, Belgium
Dinant: Anhée | Beauraing | Bièvre | Ciney | Dinant | Gedinne | Hamois | Hastière | Havelange | Houyet | Onhaye | Rochefort | Somme-Leuze | Vresse-sur-Semois | Yvoir
Namur: Andenne | Assesse | Eghezée | Fernelmont | Floreffe | Fosses-la-Ville | Gembloux | Gesves | Jemeppe-sur-Sambre | La Bruyère | Mettet | Namur | Ohey | Profondeville | Sambreville | Sombreffe
Philippeville: Cerfontaine | Couvin | Doische | Florennes | Philippeville | Viroinval | Walcourt