Gilly, Belgium

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Gilly ({{IPA|fr|ʒili}}, {{langx|wa|Djilî}}) is a town of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Charleroi, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.

It was a municipality of its own before the fusion of the Belgian municipalities in 1977.

It houses the base of Fédération des Patros, a youth organisation.{{Cite web |title=Contact |url=https://patro.be/contact/ |access-date=2022-07-28 |website=Fédération Nationale des Patros |language=fr-FR}}

During the 1980s and 1990s it was also the home of an international group of Christian missionaries working with Operation Mobilisation.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

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