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    Walloon Brabant. The Nivelles municipality includes the former municipalities of Baulers, Bornival, Thines, and Monstreux. The Nivelles arrondissement includes...
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    Tradition." Nivelles: Comité de Sainte Gertrude, 1985. Delanne, Blanche. Histoire de la Ville de Nivelles: Des Origines au XIIIe siècle. Nivelles: Impr. Havaux...
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    Nivelles-Baulers was a 2.314 mi (3.724 km) race track in Nivelles (in French)/Nijvel (in Dutch) near Brussels, Belgium. Built in 1971, the circuit hosted...
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  • in World War I. Nivelles, a town in central Belgium Battle of Nivelle, a battle fought in 1813 near the river Nivelle Robert Nivelle (1856–1924), French...
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    The Nivelle offensive (16 April – 9 May 1917) was a Franco-British operation on the Western Front in the First World War which was named after General...
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    Bayonne 7 Toulouse 6 5 4 3 Nivelle 2 1    The Battle of Nivelle (10 November 1813) took place in front of the river Nivelle near the end of the Peninsular...
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    Robert Georges Nivelle (15 October 1856 – 22 March 1924) was a French artillery general officer who served in the Boxer Rebellion and the First World...
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    Nivelles Abbey (French: Abbaye de Nivelles) is a former Imperial Abbey of the Holy Roman Empire founded in 640. It is located in Nivelles, Walloon Brabant...
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    The Arrondissement of Nivelles (French: Arrondissement de Nivelles; Dutch: Arrondissement Nijvel) is an arrondissement in Wallonia and Belgium. It is the...
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    Nivelle (French pronunciation: [nivɛl] ) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. Communes of the Nord department Nivelle Offensive "Répertoire...
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  • death, she founded the Abbey of Nivelles, where she became a Colombanian nun along with her daughter, Gertrude of Nivelles. Both are honored as saints by...
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    The Nivelle (French pronunciation: [nivɛl] ; widest accepted Basque forms: Ugarana or Urdazuri) is a 39-kilometre (24 mi) long river French department...
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  • Mount Nivelle is a mountain located at the NW end of Elk Lakes Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada. It was named in 1918 after Marshal Robert...
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    the city of Nivelles, Belgium. The main ingredient is chard (d'jote in the local dialect of Walloon), cream cheese (the boulette of Nivelles), and butter...
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    The Nivelles Carnival (French: Carnaval de Nivelles) is one of the most important carnivals in Belgium. It is the oldest carnival in the province of Walloon...
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    Ida of Nivelles (c.1190 – 11 December 1231) was a beatified Cistercian nun and mystic. Ida was born into a prosperous mercantile family in Nivelles, an important...
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    Meuse–Argonne offensive in late September 1918. In December 1916, Robert Nivelle replaced Pétain as commander of French armies on the Western Front and...
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    Gertrude (French: Collégiale Sainte-Gertrude de Nivelles) is a Roman Catholic collegiate church in Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Belgium, which was built in...
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    de Nivelles (French for "The Metallurgical Workshops of Nivelles"). The company was acquired by Bombardier Transportation in 1988, plants in Nivelles and...
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    Fosses-la-Ville, not far from Nivelles, in the province of Namur. After the death of Itta in 652, Foillan came one day to Nivelles and sang Mass, on the eve...
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  • 351 1825 1163 Ninove Aalst  East Flanders 38,446 1825 12th Nivelles (nl: Nijvel) Nivelles  Walloon Brabant 28,368 1825 13th century Ostend (nl: Oostende;...
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  • Jean de Nivelle (1422 – 26 June 1477) was a French nobleman, son of Jean II of Montmorency who became a byword for failing to fulfill filial duties and...
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    The Brabant killers, also named the Nijvel Gang in Dutch-speaking media (Dutch: De Bende van Nijvel), and the mad killers of Brabant in French-speaking...
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    was opened here in 1779. Nivelles: south of Brussels. Known for its church and as the birthplace of Saint Gertrude of Nivelles, who played an important...
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    at the crossing of the main routes between Charleroi and Brussels, and Nivelles and Leuven. It was originally built in 1895 as the home of a French industrialist...
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    district (arrondissement in French), the arrondissement of Nivelles, with 27 municipalities. Nivelles District: Beauvechain (Bevekom) Braine-l'Alleud (Eigenbrakel)...
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    Marcial Dennewitz 2nd Kulm Göhrde Roßlau Wartenburg Bidassoa Leipzig Hanau Nivelle Bornhöved Sehested 1814 Brienne La Rothière Mincio River Champaubert Montmirail...
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    between Zolder in northern Belgium and a circuit at Nivelles-Baulers near Brussels. The first race at Nivelles in 1972 was won by Emerson Fittipaldi. Zolder...
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    Méhaigne in the area of Namur; the Gris de Nivelles et du Hainaut, named for Hainaut region and for the city of Nivelles, now in Walloon Brabant; and the Gros...
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    Nivelles is a parliamentary constituency in Belgium used to elect members of the Parliament of Wallonia since 1995. It corresponds to the Arrondissement...
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