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1 Lists of municipalities

Here are three lists of municipalities for each one of the three regions:

• List of municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region
• List of Flemish municipalities
• List of Walloon municipalities

2 History

2.1 Before 1830

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2.2 Between 1830 and 1977

After Belgium declared its independence in 1830, Belgium was divided into 2.492 municipalities. The number of municipalities changed however until the major reform of 1977 (e.g. in 1928 and after WW2).

See also: List of Belgian municipalities before 1977

2.3 Merging of municipalities in 1977 and 1988

After municipalities were merged in 1977For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). Events January 1 First woman Episcopal priest ordained January 6 EMI sacks the Sex Pistols January 18 Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious " legionnaire's disease" Januar (major merging) and 1983Events January January 1 Beat Raaflaub became Basel Boys Choir's new conductor January 1 the ARPANET officially changes to use the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet. January 1 compulsory wearing of seat belts becomes law in the UK. January 2 The mu (merging of the municipalities of Antwerp), the number came down to 589.

2.4 Since 1977

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3 See also

• Communities, regions and provinces of BelgiumBelgium is a federal state and is composed of three communities three regions and four linguistic regions . Two out of the three regions each comprise as well each five provinces making a total of ten provinces. Belgium also comprises 589 municipalities .
• List of Belgian municipalities by populationThis is a list of Belgian municipalities by population: # Brussels (983000) counting the capital region as one municipality # Antwerp (451000) # Ghent (228000) # Charleroi (202000) # Liege (186000) # Bruges (118000) # Namur (106000) # Mons (92000) # Leuve
• List of cities in BelgiumThis is a partial list of cities in Belgium: Antwerpen (Antwerp) Brugge, (Bruges) Brussel,Bruxelles (Brussels) Gent (Ghent) Leuven (Louvain) Liege Mons Namur See also List of cities List of Belgian municipalities List of Belgian municipalities by populati
• List of Belgian postal codes
• Municipalities with linguistic facilitiesThe municipalities with linguistic facilities or municipalities with facilities ( Dutch: faciliteitengemeenten , French: communes a facilites ) are a small group of Belgian municipalities with special law provisions to protect rights of their (historic) l