Escaut department

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The Département de l'Escaut ( German  Department of the Scheldt ; Dutch Departement van de Schelde ) was a 1795 to 1814 the French state belonging department . It was named after the river Scheldt . This department should not be confused with the Bouches-de-l'Escaut ( Scheldt estuary ) to the north , which also belonged to France from 1811 to 1814.

history

In 1814 the area came to what is now the Belgian province of Oost-Vlaanderen , part (Staats-Vlaanderen, Zeeuws Vlaanderen ) came to the Dutch province of Zeeland .

structure

The capital ( chef-lieu ) of the department or seat of the prefecture was the city of Ghent . It was divided into four arrondissements and 41 cantons , also district courts of justice , and 338 municipalities:

Arrondissement Main towns in the cantons, seat of the courts of justice
Ghent Deinze , Evergem , Gent (4 cantons), Kruishoutem , Lochristi , Nazareth , Nevele , Oosterzele , Waarschoot , Zomergem
Dendermonde Aalst (2 cantons), Beveren , Dendermonde , Hamme , Lokeren , Sint-Gillis-Waas , Sint-Niklaas , Temse , Wetteren , Zele
Eeklo Assenede , Axel , Eeklo , Hulst , IJzendijke , Kaprijke , Oostburg , Sluis
Oudenaarde Brakel , Geraardsbergen , Herzele , Ninove , Oudenaarde (2 cantons), Ronse , Sint-Maria-Horebeke , Zottegem

The department had an area of ​​3,570 square kilometers and in 1812 a total of 636,438 inhabitants.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 224 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ a b Almanach Impérial 1812 , Paris, p. 400 ( Bibliothèque nationale de France )
  3. ^ Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus : Germany for a Hundred Years , Second Section, Third Volume, Leipzig: Voigt & Günther, 1862, p. 78 ( Google Books )