Hesbaye
The Hesbaye (in Dutch Haspengouw ) is a natural area of Belgium, extending on the provinces from Liege, of the Limbourg, the the Flemish Brabant, the the Walloon Brabant, and Namur. It extends roughly from Tirlemont to the Meuse and from Tongres to Gembloux. It is limited to the south by the Condroz.
The name Hesbaye, as well as the name in Dutch Haspengouw come from the Latin name of the Pagus Carolingian Haspinga .
Waremme (its capital), Jodoigne, Éghezée, Tirlemont, Perwez or Tongres belongs to this area.
The area rests on a Roche primarily Calcaire, covered with an important layer of Lœss, a wind silt of glacial origin. The zone is almost entirely the field of the intensive Agriculture: cereals and sugar beet.
One distinguishes, with the western, wet Hesbaye and in the east Hesbaye dry. This one owes its name with the scarcity of its rivers, due to its under chalk ground, if it is not the Geer and its some affluents.
The relative adjective to Hesbaye is hesbignon .
Hesbaye is a natural area of the Belgium Average, located at the North of the Meuse in muddy area (chart of the agricultural areas). This area is characterized by the extent of the discovered horizons, the absence of main forest, the concentration of the habitat and especially by the importance of the muddy cover which makes the richness of the practiced cultures (mainly sugar beets and cereals).
The limits of Hesbaye are conventional. Several authors consider that those are consisted Démer in North, then by the line Hasselt - Lanaeken, then by the Meuse in the East, and the South by Gette and Large Gette. thus defined, Hesbaye has a surface of approximately 2400 square kilometers, which represents the 1/12e surface of Belgium.
Topography: Opened vast campaigns, mollement undulated by a succession of small valleys dry, and strewn with villages, ensure Hesbaye Liégeoise more the d'" good example; openfield" country (landscape discovered composed of not enclosed pieces).
See too
Related articles
- War of Awans and Waroux
- On the Carolingian family of Hesbaye: Ermengarde de Hesbaye, wife of Louis the Piles, his father the count Ingramm de Hesbaye
External bonds
- the mirror of noble of Hesbaye (Jacques de Hemricourt)
- Toerisme Haspengouw
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