Dinant (BE)

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Dinant is a Walloon city and municipality (13,584 inhabitants in 2013) located on the River Meuse in the Belgian province of Namur, including the old communes of Anseremme, Bouvignes-sur-Meuse, Dréhance, Falmagne, Falmignoul, Foy-Notre-Dame, Furfooz, Lisogne, Sorinnes, and Thynes.

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Postal history

The post-office DINANT existed before 1830. It used a postal code 33 with bars (before 1864), and 96 with points before 1870. The relay FALMIGNOUL opened on 20 September 1881, ANSEREMME post-office opened on 25 Avril 1906.

Postal codes in 1969 (before the merger of municipalities in 1977): - 5500 Dinant - 5501 Lisogne - 5502 Thynes - 5503 Sorinnes - 5504 Foy-Notre-Dame - 5505 Furfooz - 5507 Falmagne - 5511 Falmignoul. Anseremme?

Postal codes since at least 1990: - 5500 Anseremme, Bouvignes-sur-Meuse, Dréhance, Dinant, Furfooz, Falmagne, Falmignoul - 5501 Lisogne - 5502 Thynes - 5503 Sorinnes - 5504 Foy-Notre-Dame.

Postmarks after 1950

Euro slogan cancel Dinant Distribution 5500 in 2001
Adolphe Sax 19 Jun 1994
Commemorative postmark "The Saxophone" 5 Jul 2014
Slogan postmark 1977
Slogan postmark 1994 year of Adolphe Sax, 3 Aug 1995

Baudouin period

Slogan cancel Dinant 1953
Circle at DINANT 1 in April 1968
Slogan cancel Dinant 1968

Postmarks before 1950

Leopold III period

Albert I period

Leopold II period

Circle in 1909 with expedition 18-19 h.
Circle in 1910 with expedition 12-13 h.

Covers and Postcards

Postmark Dinant-A, 1938.