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Ramillies is a rural commune of 5,000, forty kilometers southeast of Brussels, in the Hesbaye farming region.

A famous battle in the War of the Spanish Succesion took place in Ramilies May 12-23, 1706. Allied forces commanded by the Duke of Marlborough handed the French under Villeroy a resounding defeat.

Bomal, Hottomont, Geest-Gerompont-Petit-Rosiere, Mont-Saint-Andre, Autre-Eglise, Huppaye, and Ramillies-Offus are all boroughs within the municipal district of Ramillies.

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