Ellezelles

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Ellezelles Elzîle (Picard) Elzele (Dutch)
Municipality
Flag Coat of arms
The municipality in Ath arrondissement in the province of Hainaut
Interactive map of Ellezelles
Ellezelles Location in Belgium
Coordinates: 50°44′N 03°41′E / 50.733°N 3.683°E / 50.733; 3.683
Country	Belgium
Community	French Community
Region	Wallonia
Province	Hainaut
Arrondissement	Ath
Government
• Mayor	Idesbalde Cauchie (cdH) (LB)
• Governing party	Liste du Bourgmestre (LB) - Ecolo
Area
• Total	45.11 km2 (17.42 sq mi)
Population  (2018-01-01)
• Total	6,001
• Density	133.0/km2 (344.5/sq mi)
Postal codes	7890
NIS code	51017
Area codes	068
Website	www.ellezelles.be

Ellezelles (French pronunciation: [ɛlzɛl] ^ⓘ; Dutch: Elzele; Picard: Elzîle; Walloon: Elziele) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.

It consists of the following districts: Ellezelles, Lahamaide, and Wodecq. Bordering Flanders, the town is home to a minority of Dutch-speakers.

The village archives contain a document "attesting" to the birth of Hercule Poirot on 1 April 1850.

Notable people

• Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavere (1522 in La Hamaide near Ellezelles – executed in 1568) a general and statesman in the Spanish Netherlands just before the start of the Eighty Years' War.
• Richard Ely (born 1974 in Ellezelles) a Belgian writer, journalist and ethnobotanist.

References

External links

• Media related to Ellezelles at Wikimedia Commons

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