Diest

Diest is a city and municipality positioned within the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. Situated in the northeast of the Hageland location, Diest neighbours the provinces of Antwerp to its North, and Limburg to the East and is situated round 60 km from Brussels. The municipality incorporates the town of Diest right and the towns of Deurne, Kaggevinne, Molenstede, Schaffen and Webbekom. As of January 1, 2006, Diest had a complete populace of twenty-two,845.

The total location is 58.20 km² which offers a populace density of 393 inhabitants according to km². Between 1499 and 1795 the metropolis turned into managed by means of the House of Nassau which became additionally the circle of relatives of the Princes of Orange who at the cease of the Napoleonic Wars became in 1815 the kings and queens of the Netherlands after the termination of the Dutch republic on the fingers of modern forces in 1795. The most famous representative of the House of Orange become William I of Orange-Nassau.