Doornik

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Doornik, better known as Tournai, is an ancient city in present-day Belgium that served as an early political and cultural center of the Frankish realms.

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Doornik canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf city
former capital city
municipality
associatedWithDynasty Merovingian dynasty
associatedWithRuler Childeric I
Clovis I
country Belgium
hasCityStatusSince Middle Ages
hasEconomicActivity light industry
services
tourism
hasHistoricalRole important medieval cloth center
strategic fortress town
hasLandmark Belfry of Tournai
Tournai Cathedral
hasNameInDutch Doornik
hasNameInFrench Tournai
hasNameInGerman Turnai
linked to: Temesvár
hasNotableStructure Gothic civic buildings
Romanesque churches
medieval city walls remnants
hasPopulationRange between 60,000 and 80,000 inhabitants
hasPostalCode 7500
historicalRegion County of Flanders
Frankish realms
Roman Gaul
linked to: Gallo-Roman Gaul
isOneOf oldest cities in Belgium
isTwinTownOf Tarbes
Villeneuve-d'Ascq
linked to: Villeneuve d’Ascq
languageMinority Dutch
languageOfficial French
locatedIn Hainaut Province
linked to: Hainaut

Wallonia
locatedOnRiver Scheldt River
linked to: Scheldt
partOf French Community of Belgium
regionCapitalOf Tournai arrondissement
religiousJurisdiction Roman Catholic Diocese of Tournai
linked to: Diocese of Tournai
servedAs early cultural center of the Franks
early political center of the Franks
timeInhabitedSince Roman period
UNESCOWorldHeritageSite Belfry of Tournai
Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
wasCapitalOf Frankish kingdom under Childeric I
early Merovingian Franks
wasContestedBy England
France
Habsburg Netherlands
Spain

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Doornik hasNameInDutch Doornik