Spiennes
Spiennes is a small village with about a thousand inhabitants in Wallonia, close to Mons. The town itself is mostly an attraction for what it once was, that being the foremost Neolithic production centre of pre-historic Europe.- Village with about 950 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 40 metres (140 feet)
- Description: Belgian locality
- Postal code: 7032
Places of Interest
Highlights include Neolithic flint mines of Spiennes and Trouille.
Neolithic flint mines of Spiennes
Archaeological site
The Neolithic flint mines of Spiennes are among the…
St Symphorien Military Cemetery
Cemetery
The St Symphorien Military Cemetery is a First World…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mons and Hyon.
Saint-Symphorien
Village
Saint-Symphorien is a sub-municipality of the city…
Spiennes
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Latitude
50.4255° or 50° 25′ 32″ north
Longitude
3.9869° or 3° 59′ 13″ east
UN/LOCODE
BE SPS
Open location code
9F25CXGP+5Q
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Walloon—“Spiennes” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Старажытныя шахты Сп’ен”
- Bulgarian: “Спиенес”
- Catalan: “Spiennes”
- Cebuano: “Spiennes”
- Chinese: “斯皮耶讷”
- Croatian: “Spiennes”
- Czech: “Spiennes”
- Dutch: “Spiennes”
- Finnish: “Spiennes”
- French: “Spiennes”
- Georgian: “სპიენი”
- German: “Spiennes”
- Hebrew: “ספיין”
- Hungarian: “Spiennes”
- Irish: “Spiennes”
- Italian: “Spiennes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Spiennes”
- Norwegian: “Spiennes”
- Polish: “Spiennes”
- Portuguese: “Spiennes”
- Romanian: “Spiennes”
- Russian: “Спьен”
- Russian: “Спьенн”
- Serbian: “Спијен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Spiennes”
- Slovak: “Spiennes”
- Spanish: “Spiennes”
- Swedish: “Spiennes”
- Turkish: “Spiennes”
- Walloon: “Spiene”
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