Beerlegem
Sign in to saveBeerlegem is a village belonging to the municipality of Zwalm. It is located in the Flemish Ardennes, the hilly southern part of the province of East Flanders, Belgium. Until 1970, it was an independent municipality.
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- Belgium
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- Zwalm
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- Beerlegem
- postal code
- 9630
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Beerlegem is a village belonging to the municipality of Zwalm. It is located in the Flemish Ardennes, the hilly southern part of the province of East Flanders, Belgium. Until 1970, it was an independent municipality.
== History == During excavations in the 1950s and 1960s, a Merovingian graveyard was discovered containing 225 graves, and a unique wooden burial vault from the 11th or 12th century. The village was first mentioned as Berlengien in 1177, and used to belong to the Lands of Aalst. In 1682 the heerlijkheid was elevated to a barony.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Beerlegem” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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