Chastre
Sign in to saveChastre (; , ) is a French-speaking municipality in Belgium that is located in Wallonia, in the province of Walloon Brabant.
Key facts
- Belgium municipality.name
- Chastre
- Belgium municipality.picture
- Maison communale Chastre.jpg
- Belgium municipality.picture legend
- Chastre town hall
- Belgium municipality.map
- Chastre Brabant-Wallon Belgium Map.svg
- Belgium municipality.map legend
- The municipality of Chastre in Walloon Brabant
- Belgium municipality.arms
- CommunesBelgique-Chastre.svg
- Belgium municipality.flag
- Flag of Chastre.svg
- Belgium municipality.arrondissement
- Nivelles
- Belgium municipality.nis
- 25117
- Belgium municipality.mayor
- Thierry Champagne
- Belgium municipality.majority
- Chastre20+, Ecolo
- Belgium municipality.postal codes
- 1450
- Belgium municipality.telephone area
- 010
- Belgium municipality.web
- www.chastre.be
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Belgium
- Named after
- castrum
- Demonym
- Chastrois
- Country
- Belgium
- Located in
- Arrondissement of Nivelles
- Official language
- French
- Population
- 7592
- Area
- 31.27
- Elevation
- 136
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Villers-la-Ville
- Official website
- www.chastre.be
- Image
- Maison communale Chastre.jpg
- Dialing code
- 010
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- Commons category
- Chastre
- topic's main category
- Category:Chastre
- postal code
- 1450
- annual number of weddings
- 26
- phone number
- +32-10-65-44-71
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- contains settlement
- Cortil-Noirmont
- P13200
- North Macedonia
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Postal history
- Heraldry
- Geography
- Location
- Hydrography
- Natural environment
- Demography
- References
- External links
Chastre (; , ) is a French-speaking municipality in Belgium that is located in Wallonia, in the province of Walloon Brabant.
Its name comes from the Gallo-Roman word castra "fortress, fortified camp", from the Latin castra which is the plural form of castrum meaning "entrenchment, fortified place".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chastre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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