Neder-Over-Heembeek
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Neder-Over-Heembeek is a former municipality of Brussels, Belgium, that was merged into the City of Brussels in 1921. Nowadays, it is a northern section of that municipality, and a predominantly indus
Old Romanesque tower in Lower Heembeek
The Romanesque tower of the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Lower Heembeek and the house where Jan Baptist van Helmont performed an alchemical transmutation (drawing by Leon Van Dievoet, 1963)
Church of St. Nicholas in Upper Heembeek
Romanesque tower of the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Lower Heembeek
Francization of Brussels
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The Francization of Brussels refers to the evolution, over the past two centuries, of this historically Dutch-speaking city into one where French has become the majority language and lingua franca. Th
Bilingual French and Dutch street signs in Brussels
Brussels in 1555, still a small city that had not yet grown to fill its walls, the present-day Small Ring
First page of Verlooy's Dissertation on the disregard of the native language in the Netherlands (1788), regarded as the first work dealing with the language problem in Flanders.
Under French rule, the use of Dutch was forbidden in Brussels' Town Hall.