Dyle department
The Département de la Dyle ( German Departement der Dyle ; Dutch Departement van de Dyle ) was a department belonging to the French state from 1795 to 1814 on the territory of the present-day Belgian provinces of Flemish Brabant , Walloon Brabant and the Brussels Capital Region .
The main town ( chief lieu ) of the department or seat of the prefecture was the city of Brussels .
The department had an area of 3428 square kilometers and in 1812 a total of 431,969 inhabitants.
history
The department was created in 1795 from the Duchy of Brabant , parts of the county of Hainaut (area around Halle ) and other small areas. It was named after the river Dyle (in today's Dutch Dijle ).
After the defeat of Napoleon , the area came to the Kingdom of the United Netherlands in 1814 and to the Kingdom of Belgium in 1830 and was assigned to the province of Brabant .
One of the prefects was Louis-Gustave Doulcet de Pontécoulant .
structure
The department was divided into three arrondissements and 38 cantons , also district courts of justice , and 388 municipalities:
Arrondissement | Main towns in the cantons, seat of the courts of justice |
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Bruxelles | Anderlecht , Asse , Brussels ( Bruxelles , Brussel ; 4 cantons), Halle , La Hulpe ( Terhulpen ), Saint-Etienne , Sint-Martens-Lennik , Sint-Stevens-Woluwe , Ukkel ( Uccle ), Vilvoorde , Wolvertem |
Louvain | Aarschot , Diest , Glabbeek , Grez , Haacht , Löwen ( Louvain , Leuven ; 2 cantons), Tienen (2 cantons), Zoutleeuw |
Nivelles | Genappe , Herne ( Hérinnes ), Jodoigne , Nivelles (2 cantons), Perwez , Wavre |
Individual evidence
- ^ Albrecht Friedrich Ludolph Lasius : The French Kayser State under the government of the Kayser Napoleon the Great in 1812 . A Geographical-Historical Manual, First Department, Osnabrück: Johann Gottfried Kißling, 1813, p. 156 ( Google Books )
- ^ A b Almanach Impérial 1812 , Paris, p. 396 ( Bibliothèque nationale de France )
- ^ Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus : Germany for a Hundred Years , Second Section, Third Volume, Leipzig: Voigt & Günther, 1862, p. 78 ( Google Books )