Aalst, Belgium (bel)

Aalst, Belgium

Aalst, Belgium ranks 1,168th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Prostějov, Fürth, and Daugavpils. Memorable people born in Aalst, Belgium include Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Gudula, and Louis Paul Boon. Memorable people who died in Aalst, Belgium include Rinus Michels, William Clito, and Paul Vanden Boeynants. Aalst, Belgium has been the birth place of many cyclists, and soccer players and the death place of many politicians, and cyclists. Aalst, Belgium is located in Belgium.

Aalst is a city and municipality on the Dender River, 31 kilometres (19 mi) northwest from Brussels in the Flemish province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Aalst itself and the villages of Baardegem, Erembodegem, Gijzegem, Herdersem, Hofstade, Meldert, Moorsel and Nieuwerkerken; it is the tenth largest city by population with 90.068 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, which dates from the Middle Ages. Read more on Wikipedia