Kortenberg is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. The municipality comprises the towns of Erps-Kwerps, Everberg, Kortenberg proper and Meerbeek. On January 1st, 2005 Kortenberg had a total population of 18,134. The total area is 34.52 km² which gives a population density of 525.36 inhabitants per km². A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. ... Flemish Brabant is a province of Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ...
On September 27, 1312, the Duchy of Brabant got a charter that should better be referred to as a constitution.
This control organ, a precursor of the later "Estate assembly" (namely, the first estate was the clergy, the second estate was the nobility, and the third estate was the municipalities) gathered in the Abbey of Kortenberg and elsewhere with ups and downs until 1375.
In 1340 documents were sealed with a special seal on which a tree was planted on a little hill (the "short" or "sharp"?).
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