See also: the Brabant

The province of the Brabant or the Brabant one of the 9 Belgian provinces defined in 1830, was centered around the capital, Brussels.

History

Its origin goes up with the annexation by the revolutionary France of the Austrian Netherlands in 1795, when what remained old Duché of the Brabant is separate into two French Départements: the department of Dyle around Brussels, and the department of Deux-Nèthes around Antwerp.

After the fall of Napoleon in 1815, these French departments will be transposed such as they are in provinces of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Dyle becomes the province of the Brabant-Southerner (in opposition to the province of Brabant-Septentrional, left northern the old duchy) and Deux-Nèthes become the Province of Antwerp. A royal decree of 1819, applied starting from 1823, imposes the Dutch like official language in the whole of this province (as in the other Flemish provinces ), except for Nivelles. This reform caused sharp oppositions and the king of the Netherlands restores linguistic freedom the June 4th 1830. At the time of the independence of the Belgium in 1830, the province of the southernmost Brabant becomes the province of the Brabant.

In 1962, during the establishment of the linguistic border separating the area from language Dutchwoman and the area of French language, the Brabant was the only province crossed by this one, following the transfer of Mouscron and Comines-Warneton of the Flanders-Western to the Hainaut and of the Fourons of Liege to the Limbourg. This situation led to the division of the Brabant in smaller territories when the supervision of the provinces passed from the Federal state to the Régions.

Since its scission in 1995, the old province thus yielded the place to two distinct provinces, the Brabant-Fleming and the Brabant-Walloon, and with a third territory wedged in the Brabant-Fleming, that of Brussels-Capital, or provincial competences are completely taken again by the regional institutions. Brussels does not form thus any more part of any province but has its own governor.

Entities resulting from the scission of the province of the Brabant

Province of Brabant-Walloon

Its chief town, capital administrative is Wavre. The Walloon Brabant is French-speaking and comprises 27 communes and fact part of the Walloon region.

Area of Brussels-Capital

Comprise 19 communes, all officially bilingual, but very definitely French-speaking (approximately 85 to 90%).

Province of Brabant-Fleming

Its chief town is Leuwen (Leuven in Dutch). The Brabant-Fleming is Dutch-speaking and comprises 65 communes, 35 in the administrative district of Hall-Vilvorde and 30 in the district of Leuwen (Leuven). It belongs to the Flemish Région. The province is officially unilingual but proposes linguistic facilities (Belgian national law of 1963) for the French-speaking people in six Flemish communes of the periphery of Brussels (6 communes where the French-speaking people are majority, by the effect of the urbanization of the agglomeration of Brussels) like in the commune of Bever (Biévène) bordering on the Walloon region.

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