Editing Ellezelles

{{Short description|Municipality in Hainault Province, Belgium}}
{{expand French|Ellezelles|date=June 2012|topic=geo}}
{{Infobox Belgium municipality
| name                      = Ellezelles
| native_name               = {{native_name|pcd|Elzîle}}
| namenl                    = Elzele
| picture                   = Ellezelles JPG00.jpg
| picture-legend            = 
| map                       = Ellezelles Hainaut Belgium Map.svg
| map-legend                = The municipality in Ath arrondissement<br/>in the province of Hainaut
| arms                      = Ellezelles coat of arms.svg
| flag                      = Flag of Ellezelles.svg
| region                    = {{BE-REG-WAL}}
| community                 = {{BE-FR}}
| province                  = {{BE-PROV-HT}}
| arrondissement            = [[Ath administrative Arrondissement|Ath]]
| nis                       = 51017
| pyramid-date              = 
| 0-19                      = 
| 20-64
| 65
| foreigners                = 
| foreigners-date           = 
| Mayor                     = Idesbalde Cauchie ([[Humanist Democratic Centre|cdH]])<br />(LB)
| majority                  = Liste du Bourgmestre (LB) - [[Ecolo]]
| parties                   = [[Reformist Movement|MR]]<br />[[Ecolo]]<br />[[Socialist Party (Belgium)|PS]]<br />Liste du Bourgmestre
| seats                     = '''17'''<br />3<br />2<br />4<br/>8
| sections-name             = Ellezelles<br/>[[Lahamaide]]<br/>[[Wodecq]]
| sections-postal           = 7890<br/>7890<br/>7890
| postal-codes              = 7890
| telephone-area            = 068
| web                       = [http://www.ellezelles.be/ www.ellezelles.be]
| coordinates               = {{coord|50|44|N|03|41|E|region:BE|display=inline,title}}
}}

'''Ellezelles''' ({{IPA|fr|ɛlzɛl|-|LL-Q150 (fra)-Manestra-Ellezelles.wav}}; {{langx|nl|Elzele}}; {{langx|pcd|Elzîle}}; {{langx|wa|Elziele}}) is a [[Municipalities in Belgium|municipality]] of [[Wallonia]] located in the [[Hainaut Province|province of Hainaut]], [[Belgium]]. 

It consists of the following districts: Ellezelles, [[Lahamaide]], and [[Wodecq]]. Bordering [[Flanders]], the town is home to a minority of Dutch-speakers.

The village archives contain a document "attesting" to the birth of [[Hercule Poirot]] on 1 April 1850.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ellezelles.be/fr/loisirs/tourisme/ellezelles-coeur-du-pays-des-collines/histoire/hercule-poirot|title=Hercule Poirot|website=Ellezelles.be|access-date=June 10, 2018}}</ref>

[[File:Ellezelles JPG02.jpg|thumb|none|200px|"Wild cat" windmill (1751)]]

== Notable people ==
* [[Lamoral, Count of Egmont|Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Prince of Gavere]] (1522 in La Hamaide near Ellezelles – executed in 1568) a general and statesman in the [[Habsburg Netherlands|Spanish Netherlands]] just before the start of the [[Eighty Years' War]].<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Egmont, Lamoral, Count of |volume= 9 |last= Edmundson |first= George |author-link= George Edmundson | pages = 18&ndash;19 |short=1 }}</ref>
* [[Richard Ely (writer)|Richard Ely]] (born 1974 in Ellezelles) a Belgian writer, journalist and ethnobotanist.

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

{{Geographic location
| Centre = Ellezelles
| N  = [[Flobecq]]
| E  = [[Lessines]]
| S  = [[Frasnes-lez-Anvaing]], [[Ath]]
| W  = [[Ronse]] ([[East Flanders|VOV]])
| NW = [[Maarkedal]] ([[East Flanders|VOV]])
}}
{{Hainaut}}
{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Municipalities of Hainaut (province)]]
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