Wallonia
Hainaut
Arrondissement of Thuin

Thuin

Thuin is a small, partly hilltop town south-west of Charleroi in the Belgian province of on the river Sambre. For rail fans, there is the ASVi museum featuring historic trams from the Vicinal era.
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  • Type: Town with 14,700 residents
  • Description: city in Wallonia, Belgium
  • Postal code: 6530

Places of Interest

Highlights include Belfry of Thuin and Saint-Ursmer Collegiate Church.

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The is a historic building in Thuin, Belgium. Although historically attached to a church, the bell tower has also become a municipal tower, the only belfry of the Principality of Liège.

Church
Photo: PMRMaeyaert, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Monastery
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0.
was a Benedictine monastery in the municipality of , , Belgium. The abbey played an important role in the religious, political and religious life of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, especially around the year 1000.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aulne.

Hamlet
Photo: Havang(nl), CC0.
is a hamlet, which is situated 4½ km northeast of Thuin.

Thuin

Latitude
50.3397° or 50° 20′ 23″ north
Longitude
4.287° or 4° 17′ 13″ east
Population
14,700
Elevation
156 metres (512 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BE THU
Open location code
9F2687QP+VR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 79447645
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2785517
Wiki­data ID
Q669186
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Zeeuws—“Thuin” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Thuin”
  • Belarusian: “Туэн”
  • Bosnian: “Thuin”
  • Breton: “Thuin”
  • Bulgarian: “Тюен”
  • Catalan: “Thuin”
  • Cebuano: “Thuin (parokya)”
  • Cebuano: “Thuin”
  • Chinese: “蒂安”
  • Dutch: “Thuin”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ثوين”
  • Esperanto: “Thuin”
  • French: “Thuin”
  • German: “Thuin”
  • Hebrew: “ת’וין”
  • Hungarian: “Thuin”
  • Irish: “Thuin”
  • Italian: “Thuin”
  • Japanese: “チュワン”
  • Korean: “튀앵”
  • Latin: “Thudinium Castellum”
  • Limburgan: “Thuin”
  • Luxembourgish: “Thuin”
  • Macedonian: “Тиен”
  • Northern Frisian: “Thuin”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Thuin”
  • Norwegian: “Thuin”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Thuin”
  • Persian: “توئن”
  • Picard: “Twin”
  • Polish: “Thuin”
  • Portuguese: “Thuin”
  • Romanian: “Thuin”
  • Russian: “Тюэн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Thuin”
  • Slovak: “Thuin”
  • Slovenian: “Thuin”
  • Spanish: “Thuin”
  • Swedish: “Thuin (kommun i Belgien)”
  • Swedish: “Thuin”
  • Turkish: “Thuin”
  • Vietnamese: “Thuin”
  • Volapük: “Thuin”
  • Walloon: “Twin”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Thuin”
  • Zeeuws: “Thuin”
  • “Thuin”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Thuin”. Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 2.5.