Steenkerque

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Steenkerque (Script error: No such module "IPA".; Template:Langx; in older English references also Steenkerke, Steenkirk, Steinkerque, Steinkerke or Steinkirk; Template:Langx) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Braine-le-Comte, located in Hainaut Province, Belgium, Script error: No such module "convert". south-west of Brussels and Script error: No such module "convert". south of Enghien.

Steenkerque is notable for the Battle of Steenkerque in 1692 during the Nine Years' War, when France defeated a joint English-Scottish-Dutch-German army.

The French movie The African Doctor (in French Bienvenue à Marly-Gomont) was shot in this village in 2015.[1]

The 2019 Tour de France began in Brussels and passed through Steenkerque, then home to "500 âmes, à peine!" ("500 souls, barely!").[2]

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