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thumb|Groot-Bijgaarden Castle thumb|Groot-Bijgaarden Castle's bridge and gatehouse Groot-Bijgaarden () is a village and deelgemeente in the municipality of Dilbeek, a suburb of Brussels, in Flanders, Belgium.

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thumb|Groot-Bijgaarden Castle thumb|Groot-Bijgaarden Castle's bridge and gatehouse Groot-Bijgaarden () is a village and deelgemeente in the municipality of Dilbeek, a suburb of Brussels, in Flanders, Belgium.

==Toponymy== The name Bijgaarden is derived from the Germanic word for enclosure. The appellation "Great" (Groot) was attached to distinguish it from the smaller Klein-Bijgaarden nearby, now in the municipality of Sint-Pieters-Leeuw.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Groot-Bijgaarden” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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