- The region's name is
first recorded as the
Carolingian shire pagus Bracbatensis,
located between the
rivers Scheldt and Dijle, from
braec "marshy" and...
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Brabant is from Old
Dutch *brākbant (attested in
Medieval Latin as pāgus
brācbatensis, Bracbantum, Bracbantia), from Frankish, a
compound of Proto-Germanic...
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pagus Cambracinsis in 663, the
pagus Taroanensis from 649 and the
pagus Bracbatensis at the end of the century. From the 8th
century we know of the pagus...
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distinguished in the
official Latin titles (comitatus
Nerviensis atque Bracbatensis). Today,
Hainaut is
divided between France and Belgium. To its north...
- times, Dilb**** and its
neighbouring villages were part of the
pagus Bracbatensis. This territory,
ruled by the
Lords of Aa in Anderlecht, was integrated...
-
Biest (comitatus Biest), one of the four
counties which formed the
pagus Bracbatensis. It
extended southwards from the row of
hills around the city of Ronse...
- Brabant): The name in
Carolingian times appeared in
Latinised form as
pagus Bracbatensis, from
bracha "new" and bant "region". See also
under the Netherlands...
