Escaut
Escaut was a department of the French First Republic and French First Empire in present-day Belgium and Netherlands. It was named after the river Scheldt, which is called the Escaut in French.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vredesmonument and Kasteel Coninxdonck.
Holy Cross Church, Heusden
Church
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The Holy Cross Church is a church in the Belgian sub-municipality of Heusden. The church was built in 1844 on the site of an older church. It is dedicated to the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Heusden and Moscou.
Heusden
Village
Heusden was a municipality located in the Belgian province of East Flanders. In 1977 it merged with the municipality of Destelbergen, of which it is now part.
Moscou
Neighborhood
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Moscou is a densely populated neighbourhood of the Belgian city of Ghent, which owes its peculiar name to the presence of the Russian army in 1814-1815.
Gentbrugge
Town
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Gentbrugge is a sub-municipality of the city of Ghent located in the province of East Flanders, Flemish Region, Belgium. It was a separate municipality until 1977. On 1 January 1977, it was merged into Ghent.
Escaut
- Type: Locality
- Description: former French department (1795-1814)
- Category: department of France
- Location: Ghent, Arrondissement of Ghent, East Flanders, Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Vlaams—“Escaut” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Escaut (departamant)”
- Breton: “Escaut”
- Catalan: “Departement de l’Escaut”
- Chinese: “斯海尔德省”
- Dutch: “Schelde”
- Dutch: “Scheldedepartement”
- French: “département de l’Escaut”
- French: “Escaut”
- German: “Département Escaut”
- German: “Schelde (Departement)”
- Greek: “Εσκώ (νομός)”
- Greek: “Εσκώ”
- Greek: “Κατάλογος νομαρχών του Εσκώ”
- Greek: “Νομάρχης του Εσκώ”
- Greek: “Νομός του Εσκώ”
- Irish: “Escaut”
- Italian: “Dipartimento della Schelda”
- Japanese: “エスコー県”
- Korean: “에스코”
- Luxembourgish: “Departement Escaut”
- Romanian: “Escaut (departament)”
- Romanian: “Escaut”
- Russian: “Эско”
- Swedish: “Escaut”
- Turkish: “Escaut”
- Vlaams: “Schelde (departement)”
- Vlaams: “Schelde”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Merelbeke railway station and Universiteit Gent / Fac. Farmaceutische Wetenschappen.
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