Editing Antoing

{{Short description|Municipality in Hainault Province, Belgium}}
{{refimprove|date=October 2021}}
{{Infobox Belgium municipality
|name=Antoing
|native_name={{native_name|pcd|Antweon}}
|picture=Antoing JPG02.jpg
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|map=Antoing Hainaut Belgium Map.svg
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|arms=Blason ville be Antoing (Tournai).svg
|flag=Flag of Antoing.svg
|region={{BE-REG-WAL}}
|community={{BE-FR}}
|province={{BE-PROV-HT}}
|arrondissement=[[Tournai administrative Arrondissement|Tournai]]
|nis=57003
|pyramid-date=
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|20-64
|65
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|foreigners-date=
|mayor=Bernard Bauwens
|majority=
|parties=
|seats='''19'''<br />14<br />3<br />2
|sections-name=Antoing<br />[[Maubray]]<br />[[Péronnes-lez-Antoing]]<br />[[Bruyelle]]<br />[[Calonne, Belgium|Calonne]]<br />[[Fontenoy, Belgium|Fontenoy]]
|sections-postal=7640<br />7640<br />7640<br />7641<br />7642<br />7643
|postal-codes=7640-7643
|telephone-area=069
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|coordinates = {{coord|50|34|N|03|27|E|region:BE|display=inline,title}}
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'''Antoing''' ({{IPA|fr|ɑ̃twɛ̃|-|LL-Q150 (fra)-Manestra-Antoing.wav}}; {{langx|pcd|Antweon}}) is a city and [[Municipalities in Belgium|municipality]] of [[Wallonia]] located in the [[Hainaut (province)|province of Hainaut]], [[Belgium]]. 

The municipality consists of the following districts: Antoing, [[Bruyelle]], [[Calonne, Wallonia|Calonne]], [[Fontenoy, Antoing|Fontenoy]], [[Maubray]], and [[Péronnes-lez-Antoing]].

==History==
The [[Battle of Fontenoy]], a major battle in the [[War of Austrian Succession]], was fought near [[Fontenoy, Antoing|Fontenoy]] village on 11 May 1745.

==Places of interest==
* [[Antoing Castle]], originally from the 12th century, restored by [[Eugène Viollet-le-Duc]] in the 19th century<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ghidrai|first=George|title=Antoing Castle|url=https://www.castlesworld.com/castles/antoing-castle.php|access-date=2021-08-22|website=www.castlesworld.com|language=en}}</ref>

<gallery widths=160px>
Image:Antoing.01.jpg|Antoing Castle, castle of the Princes de Ligne (13th - 16th centuries)
File:Antoing, toren van de l'église Saint-Pierre foto5 2013-05-09 11.23.jpg|Churchtower (l'église Saint-Pierre)
File:Antoing-Calonne, industrieterrein langs de Schelde IMG 6421 2023-06-04 14.12.jpg|Calonne, industrial area along the Scheldt
</gallery>

==Famous inhabitants==
*[[Raoul Cauvin]], comics writer, was born in Antoing in 1938

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline}}

{{Geographic location
|Centre = Antoing
|N = [[Tournai]]
|E = [[Péruwelz]]
|S = [[Flines-lès-Mortagne]] ([[France|FR]]-[[Nord (French department)|59]])
|W = [[Brunehaut]]
}}
{{Hainaut}}
{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Antoing| ]]
[[Category:Cities in Wallonia]]
[[Category:Municipalities of Hainaut (province)]]


{{Hainaut-geo-stub}}