Ellezelles (French pronunciation: [ɛlzɛl] ⓘ; Dutch: Elzele; Picard: Elzîle; Walloon: Elziele) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
It consists of the following districts: Ellezelles, Lahamaide, and Wodecq. Bordering Flanders, the town is home to a minority of Dutch-speakers.
The village archives contain a document "attesting" to the birth of Hercule Poirot on 1 April 1850.[2]
Notable people
- Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavere (1522 in La Hamaide near Ellezelles – executed in 1568) a general and statesman in the Spanish Netherlands just before the start of the Eighty Years' War.[3]
- Richard Ely (born 1974 in Ellezelles) a Belgian writer, journalist and ethnobotanist.
References
- ^ "Wettelijke Bevolking per gemeente op 1 januari 2018". Statbel. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
- ^ "Hercule Poirot". Ellezelles.be. Retrieved June 10, 2018.
- ^ Edmundson, George (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). pp. 18–19.
External links
Media related to Ellezelles at Wikimedia Commons
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