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Evere
Sign in to saveEvere (; ) is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region (Belgium). , the municipality had a population of 43,608 inhabitants. The total area is , which gives a population density of . In common with all of Brussels' municipalities, it is legally bilingual (French–Dutch).
Key facts
- Belgium municipality.name
- Evere
- Belgium municipality.picture
- EvereTownHall.jpg
- Belgium municipality.picture legend
- Evere's Municipal Hall
- Belgium municipality.map
- Evere Brussels-Capital Belgium Map.svg
- Belgium municipality.map legend
- Evere municipality in the Brussels-Capital Region
- Belgium municipality.arms
- Blason Evere.svg
- Belgium municipality.flag
- Flag of Evere.svg
- Belgium municipality.arrondissement
- Brussels
- Belgium municipality.nis
- 21006
- Belgium municipality.mayor
- Alessandro Zappala (PS)
- Belgium municipality.majority
- Liste du Bourgmestre (PS) / MR
- Belgium municipality.postal codes
- 1140
- Belgium municipality.telephone area
- 02
- Belgium municipality.web
- www.evere.be/fr www.evere.be/nl
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Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- Everaar
- Population
- 42656
- Area
- 5.13
- Elevation
- 57
- Official website
- evere.brussels
- Image
- EvereTownHall.jpg
- Dialing code
- 02
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- Evere
- postal code
- 1140
- annual number of weddings
- 136
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +32-2-247-62-62
- P12674
- Pantxi Sirieix
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Evere (; ) is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region (Belgium). , the municipality had a population of 43,608 inhabitants. The total area is , which gives a population density of . In common with all of Brussels' municipalities, it is legally bilingual (French–Dutch).
==History== Evere's character was essentially rural until the end of the First World War. It was famous for its market gardeners, pioneers in the cultivation of chicory (, ). It was also the centre of the history of aviation in Belgium between 1914 and 1945 welcoming, among others, on the neighbouring town of Haren, the Société Anonyme Belge de Constructions Aéronautiques (SABCA) and ''Societé Anonyme Belge d'Exploitation de la Navigation Aérienne (SABENA). Charles Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis'' to Evere airfield after his historic 1927 transatlantic flight to Paris. He was welcomed by a crowd of over 25,000.
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