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Enghien

City in Hainaut Province, Wallonia, Belgium

Field	Value
name	Enghien
native_name
namenl	Edingen
picture	Enghien 050918 (1).jpg
map	Enghien Hainaut Belgium Map.svg
map-legend	Location of Enghien in Hainaut
arms	Armes de la Maison d'Enghien.png
flag	Edingen_vlag.svg
province	Hainaut
arrondissement	Ath
coordinates
nis	51067
mayor	Olivier Saint-Amand (Ecolo)
majority	Ecolo, En Mouvement, PS
postal-codes	7850
telephone-area	02
web	www.enghien-edingen.be

Note

|picture-legend = |map-legend = Location of Enghien in Hainaut |postal-codes = 7850 |telephone-area = 02 Enghien (; ; ; ) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.

On 1January 2006, Enghien had a total population of 11,980. The total area is 40.59 km2, which gives a population density of 295 inhabitants per km2.

The municipality consists of the following districts: Enghien, Marcq, and Petit-Enghien. It is situated on the Flemish border, and restricted language rights are granted to the Dutch speaking minority (so-called language facilities).

History

Enghien gave its name to a French duchy and to the commune of Enghien-les-Bains, a suburb of Paris, due to a complex series of family successions: in 1487, Mary of Luxembourg (d. 1547), the only heir of Peter II of Luxembourg (d. 1482), Count of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise and member of one of the branches of the House of Luxembourg, married François de Bourbon-Vendôme (d. 1495), the great-grandfather of King Henry IV of France. Mary of Luxembourg brought as her dowry the fief of Condé-en-Brie (Aisne département, France) and the county of Enghien, among others. These fiefs passed to her grandson Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, uncle of King Henry IV of France, who started the line of the Princes of Condé, the famous cadet branch of the French royal family.

In 1566, the county of Enghien was elevated to a duchy-peerage. However, the necessary registration process was not completed, so the title became extinct at the death of Louis I de Bourbon in 1569. In 1633, Henry II, Prince of Condé, grandson of Louis I de Bourbon, inherited the duchy of Montmorency, near Paris, after the execution of Henri II de Montmorency, brother of his wife Charlotte-Marguerite de Montmorency. In 1689, King Louis XIV allowed Henry III, Prince of Condé, grandson of Henry II, Prince of Condé, to rename the duchy of Montmorency as "duchy of Enghien", in memory of the duchy of Enghien which the Princes of Condé had lost in 1569 at the death of Louis I de Bourbon.

The city of Montmorency, at the heart of the duchy, continued to be known as "Montmorency", despite the official name change, but the name "Enghien" stuck to the nearby lake and marshland that developed later as a spa resort and was incorporated as the commune of Enghien-les-Bains in the 19th century.

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File:Enghien 050918 HV.JPG|Town hall File:Enghien CH1b.jpg|The Empain château in the Enghien Gardens File:Enghien 050918 (17).jpg|Enghien Gardens File:JonathausEnghien.jpg|Jonathas House (16th century)

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