Fleurus
Fleurus is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. It has been the site of four major battles. The municipality consists of the following districts: Brye, Heppignies, Fleurus, Lambusart, Saint-Amand, Wagnelée, Wanfercée-Baulet, and Wangenies.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fleurus railway station and Ligny railway station.
Ligny railway station
Railway stop
Photo: Smiley.toerist, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ligny railway station is a railway stop, which is situated 3½ km north of Fleurus.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saint-Amand and Ligny.
Saint-Amand
Village
Photo: Grentidez, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saint-Amand is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Fleurus, located in the Arrondissement of Charleroi, province of Hainaut, Belgium.
Ligny
Village
Photo: Smiley.toerist, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ligny is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Sombreffe, located in the province of Namur, Belgium. Previously its own municipality, a 1977 fusion of the Belgian municipalities made it an ancienne commune of Sombreffe. Ligny is situated 4 km northeast of Fleurus.
Velaine-sur-Sambre
Village
Photo: A. Waroquier, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Velaine-sur-Sambre is a village, which is situated 4½ km east of Fleurus.
Fleurus
- Categories: municipality of Belgium, Belgian municipality with the title of city, and locality
- Location: Fleurus, Arrondissement de Charleroi, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
50.48294° or 50° 28′ 59″ northLongitude
4.5497° or 4° 32′ 59″ eastPopulation
22,000Elevation
158 metres (518 feet)Open location code
9F26FGMX+5VOpenStreetMap ID
node 64802854OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2798297Wikidata ID
Q314922
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Zeeuws—“Fleurus” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ֆլյորյուս”
- Basque: “Fleurus”
- Breton: “Fleurus”
- Bulgarian: “Фльорюс”
- Catalan: “Fleurus”
- Cebuano: “Fleurus”
- Chinese: “弗勒吕斯”
- Chinese: “弗勒呂斯”
- Czech: “Fleurus”
- Danish: “Fleurus”
- Dutch: “Fleurus”
- Esperanto: “Fleurus”
- French: “Fleurus”
- Galician: “Fleurus”
- German: “Fleurus”
- Greek: “Φλοερύς”
- Hungarian: “Fleurus”
- Irish: “Fleurus”
- Italian: “Fleurus”
- Japanese: “フルーリュス”
- Japanese: “フルリュス”
- Korean: “플뢰뤼스”
- Latin: “Flerius”
- Limburgan: “Fleurus”
- Lithuanian: “Fleriusas”
- Luxembourgish: “Fleurus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fleurus”
- Norwegian: “Fleurus”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Fleurus”
- Persian: “فلورو”
- Picard: “Fleuru”
- Polish: “Fleurus”
- Portuguese: “Fleurus”
- Romanian: “Fleurus”
- Russian: “Флерус”
- Russian: “Флерюс”
- Russian: “Флёрюс”
- Slovak: “Fleurus”
- Spanish: “Fleurus”
- Swedish: “Fleurus”
- Turkish: “Fleurus”
- Vietnamese: “Fleurus”
- Vlaams: “Fleurus”
- Volapük: “Fleurus”
- Walloon: “Fleuru”
- Walloon: “Fleûru”
- Waray (Philippines): “Fleurus”
- Zeeuws: “Fleurus”
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Localities in the Area
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