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32 unusual facts about Ghent


Aeolian Singers

In recent years they have performed in Ghent, Paris and Provence and visited Mannheim in October 2006, where they performed in two concerts together with the Konzertchor der Stadt Mannheim.

Antoine Pierre Berryer

In the great conflict of the period between Napoleon I and the Bourbons, Berryer, like his father, was an ardent Legitimist; and in the spring of 1815, at the opening of the campaign of the Hundred Days, he followed Louis XVIII of France to Ghent as a volunteer.

Binche lace

Tradition says that Binche lace was started in the 15th century by lacemakers that moved to Binche from Ghent with Mary of Burgundy, however there is no proof for this legend.

Catholic University of Mechlin

The announcement of the bishops' founding of the University in Mechelen provoked serious riots in the cities of Ghent, Leuven and Liege as it was feared that the State education system would be destroyed by the bishops.

Cebrià de Montoliu

He was also a follower of great town planners such as Ebenezer Howard and Patrick Geddes and met Geddes at the Civic Building Exhibition in Ghent, Belgium in 1913.

Charlotte Klonk

From 1992 to 1993 she worked at the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst in Ghent (Director: Jan Hoet).

Church of Our Lady of Egmanton

These include the organ case modelled on the one in the cathedral at Freiburg im Breisgau, the pulpit modelled on that in Ghent.

DJ big band

In the first version of that band, they were 6 DJs and a saxophonist (Fabrizio Cassol), a production of arts centre nOna (from Mechelen, Belgium) in co-operation with arts centres Vooruit (Ghent, Belgium) and Villanella (Antwerp, Belgium).

Economy of Belgium

Indeed, Flemish and Walloon economies differ in many respects (consider for instance Eurostats and OECD statistics), and cities like Brussels, Antwerp, Liège, Bruges, Charleroi or Ghent also exhibit significant differences.

The port of Ghent, in the north of the city, is the third largest port of Belgium.

Émile Garabiol

In 1911, he received a Silver Medal from the French Industrial Association, and in 1913, a gold medal from the city of Ghent.

Francisco de Toledo

Following the signing of peace, Álvarez de Toledo returned to Spain and later went to Ghent, in Flanders.

General Grot-Rowecki

At the time of the collision, the General Grot-Rowecki was owned by the Polish Steamship Company and registered in Malta, and was en route to the port of Police, Poland, while the 8,131 tonne, 126-metre Ece was bound for Ghent, Belgium.

Ghent, Kentucky

Ghent is on the opposite side of the Ohio River from Vevay, Indiana, but the towns are not linked by a bridge.

Ghent, New York

Ghent – The hamlet of Ghent is on Route 66 in the northeast part of the Town of Ghent.

Grimani

It was produced in Ghent and Bruges ca 1515-1520 and by 1520 owned, though possibly not originally commissioned, by Cardinal Domenico Grimani.

Inverted Dendermonde

18 of the 25 stamps were sold at the Post Office of Gent (Fr. Gand) on 13 August 1920.

Jean-Baptiste Brulo

Jean-Baptiste Brulo (29 January 1746, Ghent – ?) was a French ballet dancer, choreographer and ballet master, the son of the French dancers Jean-Baptiste Brulo and Marie-Thérèse Tabary.

Jean-Pierre Coopman

His skills were put to use, among other things, in reparations of the medieval churches of Belgium--most notably, Saint Nicholas' Church in Ghent.

Joseph Van Crombrugghe

He was member of the provincial council (Dutch: Provinciale Staten) of Oost-Vlaanderen (1816–1817), member of the House of Commons of the Staten-Generaal (1817–1824), burgomaster of Sint-Martens-Leerne (1820–1825), burgomaster of Ghent (1825–1836, 1840–1842) and a member of the Provincial Council of Oost-Vlaanderen (1836–1842) for the liberal party.

Joseph Jan van Crombrugghe (22 September 1770, Ghent – 10 March 1842, Ghent) was a lawyer and a politician in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and later in Belgium.

Karl Heinz Schnell

Indeed it was only on the day the unit transferred to airfields at Ghent, on 29 September, against the British evacuation at Dunkirk, that Schnell got his first victory - an RAF Spitfire.

Lewisham Priory

The history of the manor of Lewisham dates back to the middle of the 10th century, when it was granted to St Peter's Abbey in Ghent.

Louis-François Bertin

In 1814 he regained possession, restored the old title, and continued his support of the royalist cause during the Hundred Days, joining Louis XVIII in the Southern Netherlands, where he edited the Moniteur Universel as Moniteur de Gand.

Michel Luc

In 1954, he was sent to be trained as a nematologist with Prof. Nigon in Lyon, then with Prof. De Coninck in Ghent, Belgium, and with Dr Seinhorst and Prof. Oostenbrink in the Netherlands.

Suzette Defoye

In 1781, she returned to France, where she performed in Lille, and then to the Austrian Nehterlands, where she performed in the theatre of Ghent in 1782–85 and then in Liège.

The Big Up Festival

The Big Up Festival is a three-day music, arts, and culture festival at Sunnyview Farm in Ghent, New York that highlights music, arts, and culture — and bring together musical entertainment, interactive art and sustainable initiatives.

Torslandaverken

Torslanda production was supported by operations in Canada at Volvo Halifax Assembly and Volvo Kalmar Assembly and later with plants in North America (Chesapeake, Virginia), and later Ghent, Belgium.

Triple Espresso

The production in Belgium was the first foreign-language version of the show, playing in the city of Ghent, in Flemish.

William Herbert, 2nd Marquess of Powis

Montgomery was not tried, and in November 1700 was ill at Ghent.

William Roxburgh

Carey and Wallich continued to work in the field of botany and in 1834, both Carey and Wallich contributed botanical specimens to the Royal Society for Agriculture and Botany's Winter Show in Ghent, Belgium.

World Soundtrack Awards 2004

The 4th World Soundtrack Awards were awarded on 9 October 2004 in Ghent, Belgium.


Alanus de Rupe

From 1459 to 1475 he taught almost uninterruptedly at Paris, Lille, Douay, Ghent, and Rostock in Germany, where, in 1473, he was made Master of Sacred Theology.

Andries Mac Leod

Andries Mac Leod was born in Ledeberg, a suburb of Ghent, as a son of Julius Mac Leod, a botanist and professor at Ghent University, and of Fanny Mac Leod born Maertens, who was translator from English into Dutch of two books by

Arcelor

The main production sites of flat steel products are Ghent-Zelzate, Dunkirk, Avilés, Gijón, Fos-sur-Mer, Piombino, Liège, Florange, Bremen, Eisenhüttenstadt and recently São Francisco do Sul in Brazil.

Belgian Tiara

The unique tiara was designed by Jean-Baptiste Bethune of Ghent.

Business engineering

Among others, university business schools offering those programmes are the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (Université Libre de Bruxelles and Vrije Universiteit Brussel), the Louvain School of Management (Université catholique de Louvain, Université de Namur), HEC Management School - University of Liege, the KULeuven, the HUBrussel (Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel), Ghent University or still the University of Antwerp.

Charles François Antoine Morren

Charles François Antoine Morren (3 March 1807 Ghent - 17 December 1858 Liège), was a Belgian botanist and horticulturist, and Director of the Jardin botanique de l’Université de Liège.

County of Flanders

The region comprising future Flanders was, from an economic point of view, a flourishing region, with a series of ports along the Scheldt river: Ghent, Tournai, Valenciennes, Cambrai and Lambres at Douai on the Scarpe and a number of seaports: Quentovic, Boulogne and Isère portus, a port at the mouth of the Yser.

The Christianisation of the population was mainly the work of missionaries like Amandus (St. Bavo's Abbey and St. Peter's Abbey in Ghent) and Eligius (coastal region and Antwerp).

Danny Matthys

In his youth, Matthys was a gifted cyclist in the category of ’promises’, together with André Dierickx, which later won famous classics such as the La Flèche Wallonne, but a very serious accident during the last years of his humanities studies in Ghent and a long rehabilitation, gave his life a strong new direction.

East Flemish Rowing League

There is also a Charles V Cup, (named for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor) with races for various boat types and categories of young to old, which takes place on the Canal Ghent-Bruges.

Easter Drama

In giving directions for public services, the Ritual refers to this custom particularly as observed at Fleury-sur-Loire and Ghent.

Ensemble Medusa

An American-Flemish Collaboration founded in 2001, in Ghent, Belgium, the primary interest of all the performers and collaborators was sound composition.

Fall of Ghent

The Fall of Ghent occurred on 15 July 1745 during the War of the Austrian Succession when a 5,000 strong French force under Ulrich Frédéric Woldemar, Comte de Lowendal surprised and captured the town of Ghent in the Austrian Netherlands.

Grey Wolves

There had already been attempts of infiltration of local politics by Grey Wolves in 2000, but during the municipal elections of 2006 two candidacies of leaders of Idealist clubs were put under the attention of the main media, Fuat Korkmazer on the Flemish Christian Democrats list in Ghent and Murat Denizli on the Francophone Socialist Party list in Schaerbeek, a commune in the Brussels Region.

Gustave Van de Woestijne

He belonged to the so-called "First Group of Latem", a group of artists who worked in the rural village of Sint-Martens-Latem on the banks of the Lys, near Ghent.

Heusden, Belgium

Because of the marriage of Beatrix of Heusden with Zeger III (viscount of Ghent) in 1212, the seat of the viscountship of Ghent moved to Heusden.

Horse goddess

Góntia, a Celtic moon goddess, considered a horse goddess by the Cantii, the Cantabri and the Ghent in Belgium.

Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of Burgundy

With her husband, and accompanied by the Countess of Namur, Jeanne de Harcourt, Isabella then travelled through the main territories of Burgundy: from Ghent (16 January) to Kortrijk (13 February) to Lille, and then to Brussels, Arras, Péronne-en-Mélantois, Mechelen and, by mid-March Noyon, where Isabella, now pregnant, chose to rest through the spring, only leaving when Joan of Arc led a campaign against the nearby Compiègne.

Jan Hoet

On June 23, 2012, while being repatriated to Ghent, Hoet suffered from hypercapnia and he was being held in a coma at the hospital of Soltau.

Jews and the slave trade

The prohibition was repeated by subsequent councils - Fourth Council of Orléans (541), Paris (633), Fourth Council of Toledo (633), the Synod of Szabolcs (1092) extended the prohibition to Hungary, Ghent (1112), Narbonne (1227), Béziers (1246).

Jo Röpcke

Researcher at the ULB, the French Free University of Brussels between 1953 and 1958 and at the R.U.G. University of Ghent from 1958 until 1962.

Johan Grimonprez

After studying cultural anthropology, he went on to complete his studies in photography and mixed media at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent.

Josse Joseph de Lehaye

As a politician, he was a member of the National Congress, burgomaster of Merendree, member of the municipal council and mayor of Ghent (1854–1857), member of the provincial council of the province of East Flanders and a member of parliament.

Józef Warszewicz

In 1844, upon recommendation of Alexander von Humboldt, he was sent by Messrs. Van Houtte, a horticulturalist of Ghent, to join a Belgian colony in Guatemala, where he soon became an independent collector and wholesale supplier of plants to European horticulturalists and botanical gardens.

Kiwao Nomura

(co-authored by Jan Lauwereyns, with images by Kris Martin; bilingual edition with a Dutch translation by Jan Lauwereyns) Loose a Horse in the Field Ghent, Belgium: Druksel, 2011.

Komiti Skopje

Also 'KOMITI' have made numerous away trips in Europe, like Bordeaux, Halmstad, Brussels, Valencia, Vienna, Bucharest, Kiev, Southampton, Rome and Gent.

Liberales

Other well-known members of the board are Mathias De Clercq, a liberal Member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives and Ghent alderman, and Dirk Verhofstadt, the brother of the liberal Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt.

Manneken Pis

Similar statues can also be found in the Belgian cities of Koksijde, Hasselt, Ghent, Bruges, in the town of Braine-l'Alleud (where it is called "Il Gamin Quipiche"), and in the French Flemish village of Broxeele, a town with the same etymology as Brussels.

PCC streetcar

The PCC technology was exported to Europe, with La Brugeoise et Nivelles (now the BN division of Bombardier) of Bruges, Belgium, building several hundred streetcars that saw service in Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, The Hague, Saint-Étienne, Marseille and Belgrade (the latter city buying vehicles initially used by the Belgian Vicinal railways).

Philip Dawson

Following education at Ghent and Liège Universities, Dawson became a member of the Institutes of Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineers.

Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

Amalia Maria da Gloria Augusta (Ghent, 20 March 1830 — Walferdange, Luxembourg, 1 May 1872), Princess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, was the first wife of Prince Henry of the Netherlands, son of king William II of the Netherlands.

Staalplaat

Staalplaat also presents as the Staalplaat Soundsystem installations and concerts throughout the world and has been performing at: club transmediale, Mutek, Tuned City, Garage, Ghent Vooruit Geluid Festival, SKIF, Sonar Festival and more.

Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst

The Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (commonly abbreviated as S.M.A.K., translated as City Museum for Contemporary Art) is a relatively new museum located in Ghent, Belgium, and is renowned both for its permanent collection (Karel Appel, Francis Bacon, Panamarenko, Andy Warhol, etc.

Trading Diaspora

As Gosch explains “premodern world system was to some extent an “archipelago of towns” in which urban centers in Europe (Bruges, Ghent, Genoa and Venice), the Middle East (Cairo, Aden, and Hormuz), and Asia (Samarkand, Calicut, Kanchipuram, Malacca, Quanzhou and Hangzhou) were connected to one another by trade and shared in a common culture of commerce.

Victor Van Hoegaerden

He started his career as a businessman establishing weaving mills in Ohain, Lokeren, Tubize, Zele and Ghent.

Willy De Clercq

After his law and notariat studies at the University of Ghent and a scholarship at Syracuse University (Syracuse, United States), De Clerq became a lawyer at the Court of appeal in Ghent and a professor at Ghent University and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.