Doornik

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Doornik, better known as Tournai, is an ancient city in present-day Belgium that served as an early political and cultural center of the Frankish realms.

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Label Occurrences
Doornik canonical 2

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf city ⓘ
former capital city ⓘ
municipality ⓘ
associatedWithDynasty Merovingian dynasty ⓘ
associatedWithRuler Childeric I ⓘ
Clovis I ⓘ
country Belgium ⓘ
hasCityStatusSince Middle Ages ⓘ
hasEconomicActivity light industry ⓘ
services ⓘ
tourism ⓘ
hasHistoricalRole important medieval cloth center ⓘ
strategic fortress town ⓘ
hasLandmark Belfry of Tournai ⓘ
Tournai Cathedral ⓘ
hasNameInDutch Doornik ⓘ
hasNameInFrench Tournai ⓘ
hasNameInGerman Turnai ⓘ
linked to: Temesvár
hasNotableStructure Gothic civic buildings ⓘ
Romanesque churches ⓘ
medieval city walls remnants ⓘ
hasPopulationRange between 60,000 and 80,000 inhabitants ⓘ
hasPostalCode 7500 ⓘ
historicalRegion County of Flanders ⓘ
Frankish realms ⓘ
Roman Gaul ⓘ
linked to: Gallo-Roman Gaul
isOneOf oldest cities in Belgium ⓘ
isTwinTownOf Tarbes ⓘ
Villeneuve-d'Ascq ⓘ
linked to: Villeneuve d’Ascq
languageMinority Dutch ⓘ
languageOfficial French ⓘ
locatedIn Hainaut Province ⓘ
linked to: Hainaut

Wallonia ⓘ
locatedOnRiver Scheldt River ⓘ
linked to: Scheldt
partOf French Community of Belgium ⓘ
regionCapitalOf Tournai arrondissement ⓘ
religiousJurisdiction Roman Catholic Diocese of Tournai ⓘ
linked to: Diocese of Tournai
servedAs early cultural center of the Franks ⓘ
early political center of the Franks ⓘ
timeInhabitedSince Roman period ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageSite Belfry of Tournai ⓘ
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai ⓘ
wasCapitalOf Frankish kingdom under Childeric I ⓘ
early Merovingian Franks ⓘ
wasContestedBy England ⓘ
France ⓘ
Habsburg Netherlands ⓘ
Spain ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Doornik → hasNameInDutch → Doornik ⓘ