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Aalst is a city located in East Flanders, a region in Belgium. It is a significant urban center in the Flemish part of the country with historical and cultural importance to the region.
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- Instance of
- municipality of Belgium
- Official name
- Aalst
- Demonym
- Ajoin
- Country
- Belgium
- Located in
- Arrondissement of Aalst
- Official language
- Dutch
- Population
- 88854
- Area
- 78.66
- Elevation
- 14
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Body of water
- Dender
- Shares border with
- Dendermonde
- Official website
- www.aalst.be
- Image
- Aalst belfry.jpg
- Dialing code
- 053
- Patron saint
- Martin of Tours
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- contains settlement
- Baardegem
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- twinned administrative body
- Gabrovo
- P8168
- Nowa Dąbrówka
- Commons category
- Aalst (Belgium)
- topic's main category
- Category:Aalst, Belgium
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Aalst, Belgium
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Aalst, Belgium
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Aalst, Belgium
- postal code
- 9308
- annual number of weddings
- 326
- native label
- Oalst
- different from
- Elst
- located in/on physical feature
- Denderstreek
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +32-53-77-93-00
- P12749
- Johann Michael Vogl
- P13200
- October
- number of viewers/listeners
- 1469248
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Encyclopedic overview
Aalst ( Dutch pronunciation: [aːlst] ; French: Alost, pronounced [alɔst]; Brabantian: Oilsjt) is a city and municipality in the province of East Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located on the Dender River, about 31 kilometres (19 mi) northwest of Brussels. The municipality comprises the city of Aalst itself and the villages of Baardegem, Erembodegem, Gijzegem, Herdersem, Hofstade, Meldert, Moorsel and Nieuwerkerken; it is the country's tenth largest city by population with 92,131 inhabitants. Aalst is crossed by the Molenbeek-Ter Erpenbeek in Aalst and Hofstade. The current mayor of Aalst is Christoph D'Haese, from the New-Flemish Alliance party. The town has a long-standing folkloric feud with Dendermonde, north along the same river, which dates from the Middle Ages.
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