Fayt-lez-Manage (French: [fa(j)ilemanaʒ],[1] literally Fayt near Manage; Walloon: El Fayi-dlé-Manadje) is a town of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Manage, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
Fayt-lez-Manage
El Fayi-dlé-Manadje (Walloon) | |
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 Place Albert I | |
 Coat of arms | |
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| Coordinates: 50°25′40″N 4°12′58″E / 50.4278°N 4.216°E | |
| Country |  Belgium |
| Region |  Wallonia |
| Province |  Hainaut |
| Municipality |  Manage |
The name dates to 1920, previously it was called Fayt-lez-Seneffe. It was a municipality in its own right before the merger of the municipalities in 1977.
The locality is served by bus 30 Anderlues - Morlanwelz - La Louvière - Strépy-Bracquenies - Thieu.
People
edit- Max Buset (1896–1959), deputy, first president of the Belgian Socialist Party
- Fernande Coulon (1901–1981), founder of the National League of Cooperators
- Victor Harou (1851–1923), explorer in the Congo
Notes
edit- ^ Pierret 1994, p. 105.
Sources
edit- Pierret, Jean-Marie (1994), Phonétique historique du français et notions de phonétique générale (in French), Louvain-la-Neuve: Peeters
Further reading
edit- J. Strale (1988), Châteaux et grandes familles de Fayt (in French), Commission d'histoire de Fayt-lez-Manage, pp. 9–29
- J. De Soignie (1873), "Notice historique sur Fayt-lez-Seneffe", Annales du Cercle Archéologique de Mons (in French), 11: 234–239
- "château de l'Escaille", Inventaire du patrimoine wallon (in French)