Halle

Halle is a town and municipality of Belgium, within the district Halle-Vilvoorde of the province Flemish Brabant. It is positioned on the Brussels-Charleroi Canal and on the Flemish side of the language border that separates Flanders and Wallonia. Halle lies on the border among the Flemish plains to the North and the undulating Brabant lands to the South. The town additionally borders at the Pajottenland to the west. The reliable language of Halle is Dutch. The municipality Halle comprises the metropolis of Halle proper and the cities of Buizingen and Lembeek. The neighboring towns are: Pepingen, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Beersel, Braine-l'Alleud, Braine-le-Chateau, and Tubize.

The populace of Halle has expanded from 32,758 inhabitants in 1991 to 39,536 on January 1, 2019. The mayor is Marc Snoeck of the sp.A. Borders have always performed an critical function in the history of Halle. Already within the prehistoric technology, before the Roman conquests, a tribe of Nervii – both a Germanized Celtic people or a celticized Germanic people – lived on this vicinity. In the 7th century, Saint Waltrude, the daughter of an important Merovingian character, gave some of her inherited land round Halle to the bankruptcy of the abbey which she had simply based in Mons.