Arrondissement of Arlon Arrondissement d'Arlon | |
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Coordinates: 49°42′N5°48′E / 49.7°N 5.8°E Coordinates: 49°42′N5°48′E / 49.7°N 5.8°E | |
Country | Belgium |
Region | Wallonia |
Province | Luxembourg |
Municipalities | 5 |
Area | |
• Total | 317.28 km2 (122.50 sq mi) |
Population (1 January 2017) | |
• Total | 61,899 |
• Density | 200/km2 (510/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
The Arrondissement of Arlon (French : Arrondissement d'Arlon; Dutch : Arrondissement Aarlen; German : Bezirk Arlon) is one of the five administrative arrondissements in the Walloon province of Luxembourg, Belgium. [1] [2] [3] It is an administrative arrondissement not to be confused with the exctint judicial arrondissement of Arlon, also comprising the municipalities of the Arrondissement of Virton.
The Administrative Arrondissement of Arlon consists of the following municipalities:
Luxembourg, also called Belgian Luxembourg, is the southernmost province of Wallonia and of Belgium. It borders on the country of Luxembourg to the east, the French departments of Ardennes, Meuse and Meurthe-et-Moselle to the south and southwest, and the Walloon provinces of Namur and Liège to the north. Its capital and largest city is Arlon, in the south-east of the province.
Liège is the easternmost province of Wallonia and Belgium.
Belgium is a federal state comprising three communities and three regions that are based on four language areas. For each of these subdivision types, the subdivisions together make up the entire country; in other words, the types overlap.
Belgium comprises 581 municipalities, 300 of them grouped into five provinces in Flanders and 262 others in five provinces in Wallonia, while the remaining 19 are in the Brussels Capital Region, which is not divided in provinces. In most cases, the municipalities are the smallest administrative subdivisions of Belgium, but in municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, on the initiative of the local council, sub-municipal administrative entities with elected councils may be created. As such, only Antwerp, having over 500,000 inhabitants, became subdivided into nine districts. The Belgian arrondissements, an administrative level between province and municipality, or the lowest judicial level, are in English sometimes called districts as well.
Arlon is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in and capital of the province of Luxembourg in the Ardennes, Belgium. With a population of just over 28,000, it is the smallest provincial capital in Belgium. Arlon is also the capital of its cultural region: the Arelerland.
Martelange is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium.
The German-speaking Community, since 2017 also known as East Belgium, is one of the three federal communities of Belgium. Covering an area of 854 km2 (330 sq mi) within the Liège Province in Wallonia, it includes nine of the eleven municipalities of Eupen-Malmedy. Traditionally speakers of Low Dietsch, Ripuarian, and Moselle Franconian varieties, the local population numbers 77,949 – about 7.0% of Liège Province and about 0.7% of the national total.
Forêts[fɔ.ʁɛ] was a department of the French First Republic, and later the First French Empire, in present-day Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany. Its name, meaning 'forests', comes from the Ardennes forests. It was formed on 24 October 1795, after the Austrian Netherlands had been annexed by France on 1 October. Before annexation, the territory was part of the Duchy of Luxembourg and little parts of the Duchy of Bouillon. Its capital was Luxembourg City.
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The Arrondissement of Bastogne is one of the five administrative arrondissements in the Walloon province of Luxembourg, Belgium. It is not a judicial arrondissement. Three of its municipalities, Gouvy, Houffalize and Vielsalm, are part of the Judicial Arrondissement of Marche-en-Famenne, while the rest of its municipalities are part of the Judicial Arrondissement of Neufchâteau.
The Arrondissement of Marche-en-Famenne is one of the five administrative arrondissements in the Walloon province of Luxembourg, Belgium. It is both an administrative and a judicial arrondissement. However, the Judicial Arrondissement of Marche-en-Famenne also comprises the municipalities of Gouvy, Houffalize and Vielsalm in the Arrondissement of Bastogne.
The Arrondissement of Neufchâteau is one of the five administrative arrondissements in the Walloon province of Luxembourg, Belgium. It is both an administrative and a judicial arrondissement. However, the Judicial Arrondissement of Neufchâteau also comprises the municipalities of Bastogne, Bertogne, Fauvillers, Sainte-Ode and Vaux-sur-Sûre in the Arrondissement of Bastogne.
The Arrondissement of Virton is one of the five administrative arrondissements in the Walloon province of Luxembourg, Belgium.
Athus is a part of Aubange city Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Aubange, located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium.
The police tribunal is the traffic court and trial court which tries minor contraventions in the judicial system of Belgium. It is the lowest Belgian court with criminal jurisdiction. There is a police tribunal for each judicial arrondissement ("district"), except for Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde, where there are multiple police tribunals due to the area's sensitive linguistic situation. Most of them hear cases in multiple seats per arrondissement. As of 2018, there are 15 police tribunals in total, who hear cases in 38 seats. Further below, an overview is provided of all seats of the police tribunal per judicial arrondissement.
The Land of Arlon is the traditionally Luxembourgish-speaking part of Belgian Lorraine, which is now predominantly French-speaking. Arlon is the main city of this region.
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Arlon-Marche-Bastogne was a parliamentary constituency in Belgium used to elect members of the Walloon Parliament from 1995 until 2019. It corresponds to the arrondissements of Arlon, Marche-en-Famenne and Bastogne.
Arlon-Marche-en-Famenne-Bastogne-Neufchâteau-Virton is a parliamentary constituency in Belgium used to elect members of the Parliament of Wallonia from 2019. It corresponds to the province of Luxembourg. It was created from the former constituencies of Arlon-Marche-Bastogne and Neufchâteau-Virton and was first contested for the 2019 Belgian regional elections.