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Fusion of the Belgian municipalities
Merger and rearrangement of Belgian municipalities from 1975 to 1983 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The fusion of the Belgian municipalities (French: fusion des communes, Dutch: fusie van Belgische gemeenten) was a Belgian political process that rationalized and reduced the number of municipalities in Belgium between 1964 and 1983. In 1961, there were 2,663 such municipalities; by 1983, these had been re-arranged and combined into 589 municipalities.
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