Flobecq

Flobecq is a Walloon municipality positioned inside the Belgian province of Hainaut. It borders to the municipalities of Ellezelles and Lessines within the equal province and to Brakel inside the province of East Flanders, on the alternative aspect of the language border. On January 1, 2008, Flobecq had a complete population of 3,287.

The overall place is 23.00 km² which offers a populace density of 143 population in step with km². Flobecq become to start with under robust have an impact on of Tournai and, as in Tournai, Picard changed into spoken there. Since the thirteenth century, the vicinity was constantly disputed among the County of Flanders and the County of Hainaut. Therefore, the region together with neighbouring locations like Lessines, Ellezellesbecame frequently referred to as debate land. In 1963, whilst the language border become constant, within the municipality of Flobecq, simplest the village of La Houppe/D'Hoppe turned into Dutch-talking. However, the village turned into not transferred to Dutch-speaking East Flanders and remained in French-speaking region. Instead, Flobecq as an entire became a municipality with language centers for Dutch.