Mechelen, known in French as Malines and historically in English as Mechlin, is a city and municipality in the province of Antwerp in the Flemish Region of Belgium. The municipality comprises Mechelen proper, some quarters at its outskirts, the hamlets of Nekkerspoel and Battel, and the villages of Walem, Heffen, Leest, Hombeek and Muizen. It is often called the Dijlestad, the City on the Dyle, after the river Dyle that flows through it. Mechelen lies on the Brussels-Antwerp urban and industrial axis, about 25 km (16 miles) from each city. It is one of Flanders' prominent cities of historical art, alongside Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Ghent and Leuven, and was a centre of artistic production in the Northern Renaissance under patrons such as Margaret of York and Margaret of Austria.
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The Grote Raad first sat in the Schepenhuis in Mechelen then, from 1616, in the (old) palace of Margaretha of Austria on Keizerstraat.
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1. citypopulation.de: Belgium: Cities (citypopulation.de)
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Mechelen ( Malines) ANT 80,351 77,269 75,313 75,560 81,925 84,523 86,911 90,355
2. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
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3. GeoNames: Mechelen - GeoNames
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51.02574 4.47762 P PPL BE VLG VAN 12 12025 77530 8 Europe/Brussels
Mechelen (Wikipedia)
Part Of: Belgium, Lead paragraph [country]
is a city and municipality in the province of Antwerp in the Flemish Region of Belgium
On Continent: Europe, Lead paragraph [country]
is a city and municipality in the province of Antwerp in the Flemish Region of Belgium
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Mechelen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmɛxələ(n)] ; French: Malines [malin] ; historically known as Mechlin in English) is a city and municipality in the province of Antwerp in the Flemish Region of Belgium.
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