| Namur | |
|---|---|
| Walloon Parliament constituency | |
 Namur | |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1995 |
| Seats | 7 |
Namur is a parliamentary constituency in Belgium used to elect members of the Parliament of Wallonia since 1995. It corresponds to the Arrondissement of Namur.
| Namur | |
|---|---|
| Walloon Parliament constituency | |
| Namur | |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1995 |
| Seats | 7 |
Namur is a parliamentary constituency in Belgium used to elect members of the Parliament of Wallonia since 1995. It corresponds to the Arrondissement of Namur.
| Representatives of Namur (1995–present) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Election | MWP (Party) | MWP (Party) | MWP (Party) | MWP (Party) | MWP (Party) | MWP (Party) | MWP (Party) | |||||||||
| 1995 | Nicole Docq (PS) | Gil Gilles (PS) | Jacques Étienne (CDH) | Jean-Marie Severin (MR) | Léon Malisoux (PS) | Daniel Marchant (Ecolo) | 6 seats | |||||||||
| 1999 | Marie-Rose Cavalier-Bohon (Ecolo) | Pierre Hardy (Ecolo) | ||||||||||||||
| 2004 | Jean-Charles Luperto (PS) | Eliane Tillieux (PS) | Anne Barzin (MR) | |||||||||||||
| 2009 | Claude Eerdekens (PS) | Maxime Prévot (CDH) | Gilles Mouyard (MR) | Stéphane Hazée (Ecolo) | ||||||||||||
| 2014 | Eliane Tillieux (PS) | Laurent Henquet (MR) | Isabelle Moinnet-Joiret (CDH) | |||||||||||||
| 2019 | Gwenaelle Grovonius (PS) | Benoît Dispa (CDH) | Sabine Laruelle (MR) | Valérie Delporte (Ecolo) | Anouk Vandevoorde (PTB) | |||||||||||
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The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur are a Catholic institute of religious sisters, founded to provide education to the poor.
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The Arrondissement of Namur is one of the three administrative arrondissements in the Walloon province of Namur, Belgium. It is both an administrative and a judicial arrondissement. The territory of the Judicial Arrondissement of Namur coincides with that of the Administrative Arrondissement of Namur.
The University of Namur or Université de Namur (UNamur), in Namur (Belgium), is a Jesuit, Catholic private university in the French Community of Belgium. Both teaching and research are carried out in six Faculties or university level schools in the fields of:
The Academy of Notre Dame is a private, Catholic co-educational Pre-K through Grade 8 lower school and college preparatory upper school sponsored by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.
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The siege of Namur was a battle between Belgian and German forces around the fortified city of Namur during the First World War. Namur was defended by a ring of modern fortresses, known as the Fortified Position of Namur and guarded by the 4th Division of the Belgian Army. The purpose of the fortified Belgian cities was to delay an invasion force until troops from the states guaranteeing Belgian independence came to their aid. The French Fifth Army planned to counter-attack while the Germans were besieging Namur.
Events in the year 2010 in Belgium.
The siege of Namur took place from 21 November to 2 December 1792, during the Flanders campaign of the War of the First Coalition. The French Army of the Ardennes under the Count of Valence captured the city which was then part of the Austrian Netherlands.
La Pairelle or its full name Centre Spirituel Ignatien La Pairelle is a Catholic spirituality and retreat centre in Wépion, Namur, Belgium. It was built in 1932 by the Jesuits and was designed by Albert Ghequière with a chapel built in the Gothic Revival style. It is located off Rue Marcel Lecomte on a hill in the district of Wépion in Namur, overlooking the River Meuse. It is the only French-speaking Jesuit retreat centre in Belgium.