Genappe

{{Infobox Belgium municipality

|name = Genappe

|type = city

|picture = Grand Place Genappe.jpg

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|map-legend = The municipality of Genappe in Walloon Brabant

|arms = Genappe wapen.svg

|flag = Genappe Belgium.svg

|arrondissement = Nivelles

|nis = 25031

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|mayor = Gérard Couronné (MR)

|majority = MR - cdH

|postal-codes = 1470-1474, 1476

|telephone-area = 067

|web = [http://www.genappe.be/ www.genappe.be]

|coordinates = {{coord|50|36|N|04|27|E|region:BE|display=inline,title}}

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Genappe ({{IPA|fr|ʒənap|-|LL-Q150 (fra)-Manestra-Genappe.wav}}; {{langx|nl|Genepiën}}, {{IPA|nl|ɣeːˈneːpijə(n)|-|Nl-Genepiën.ogg}}; {{langx|wa|Djinape}}) is a municipality and city{{Cite web |title=Wet tot toekenning van de titel van stad aan de gemeenten Beringen, Bilzen, Blankenberge, Borgloon, Ciney, Couvin, Damme, Geel, Genepiën, Gistel, Halen, Hamont-Achel, Hannuit, Harelbeke, Herk-de-Stad, Lo-Reninge, Mesen, Oudenburg, Peer, Scherpenheuvel-Zichem, Vilvoorde en Walcourt |url=https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/eli/wet/1985/07/19/1985001298/staatsblad |date=19 July 1985 |lang=nl |website=www.ejustice.just.fgov.be |publisher=Belgian Official Gazette |access-date=22 April 2025}} of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant.

Demographics

As of 2023, the municipality of Genappe boasted a population of 14,266 residents.{{Cite web |title=Population of Cities in Belgium 2023 |url=https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/cities/belgium |access-date=2023-10-21 |website=worldpopulationreview.com}} Spanning a total area of 89.57 km² , the region has a population density of 15,26 inhabitants per km².

History

Although his birthplace was probably Boulogne-sur-Mer, one 13th-century chronicler cites Baisy (now Baisy-Thy in Genappe), as the birthplace of Godfrey of Bouillon, the best-known leader of the First Crusade (1096-1099).L. Bréhier, "Godfrey of Bouillon" in The Catholic Encyclopedia (1909), citing Haigneré, Mémoires lus à la Sorbonne, Paris, 1868, 213

=Postal history=

The Genappe post-office opened before 1830. It used a postal code 48 with bars (before 1864), and 145 with points before 1870. BOUSVAL opened on 8 April 1880.Catalogue Spécialisé des Oblitérations Belges, 1849-1910, Nationale en Internationale Postzegelmanifestaties Antwerpen (NIPA), Antwerp, 1999.

Postal codes in 1969 (before the merger of municipalities in 1977):Liste des Numéros Postaux, Administration des Postes, Bruxelles 1969.

- 1470 Genappe

- 1471 Loupoigne

- 1472 Vieux-Genappe

- 1473 Glabais

- 1474 Ways

- 1475 Baisy-Thy

- 1476 Houtain-le-Val

- 1488 Bousval.