Comines-Warneton (BE)

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Comines-Warneton (pronunciation [kɔmin waʁnətɔ̃]; Dutch: Komen-Waasten [ˈkoːmə(ɱ) ˈʋaːstə(n)] is a municipality (18,391 inhabitants end 2023) of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut. It is contiguous with the identically named Comines on the other side of the border with France. Comines-Warneton is a municipality with language facilities for Dutch-speakers.

The municipality consists of the following: Bas-Warneton, Comines, Houthem, Ploegsteert, and Warneton (including the hamlet of Gheer). They were all transferred in 1963 from the arrondissement of Ypres in the Dutch-speaking province of West Flanders to the newly created arrondissement of Mouscron in French-speaking Hainaut. The five municipalities (Comines, Houthem, Ploegsteert, Bas-Warneton, Warneton) were merged into a single Comines-Warneton municipality in 1977. Since then, the municipality forms an exclave of both Hainaut and Wallonia, being surrounded by the Flemish province of West Flanders and the French department of Nord and not connected to the rest of the French-speaking area of Belgium.

Postal history before 1910

The WARNETON post office opened in 1835. It used a Distribution code 57 with bars, moved to a Perception code 192 in 1860, and 391 with points before 1874 .

The COMINES post office opened on 15 July 1856. It used a Perception code 131 with bars (before 1864) and 85 with points before 1874 . the PLOEGSTEERT post office opened on 27 November 1878. The HOUTHEM-LEZ-YPRES relay opened on 6 November 1899.

Postmarks after 1950

Postal codes in 1969: Bas-Warneton 7791, Comines 7780, Houthem 7781, Ploegsteert 7792, Warneton 7790

Postal codes in 1998: Comines 7780, Houthem 7781, Ploegsteert 7782, Bas-Warneton and Warneton 7784

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Baudouin period (1950-1993)

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Ploegsteert

Ploegsteert in 1992

Postmarks before 1950

Leopold III period

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Albert I period

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Leopold II period

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Leopold I period

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Covers

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