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The Dyle (Dyle and Dijle ), is a river in central Belgium, left tributary of the Rupel. It is long. It flows through the Belgian provinces of Walloon Brabant, Flemish Brabant and Antwerp. Its source is in Houtain-le-Val, near Nivelles in Walloon Brabant.
The most important cities along the Dyle are (starting from the source) Ottignies, Wavre, Leuven and Mechelen. The latter is often called the 'Dijlestad' (Dyle City). The main tributaries of the Dyle are the rivers Demer (in Werchter, Rotselaar municipality), and the Zenne at the Zennegat, on the farthest outskirts of Mechelen, where the canal Leuven-Mechelen also connects. A few hundred metres downstream, the confluence of the Dyle and the Nete at Rumst forms the river Rupel, which further comes into the Scheldt on which the Antwerp seaport is located. The Dyle used to be navigable for small ships from Werchter on, although nowadays commercial and pleasure navigation is limited to Mechelen, the upper locks at Mechelen being closed for navigation.
Dyle may refer to:
- Dyle (river), is a river in central Belgium, a tributary of the Rupel
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- Dyle (department)
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Dyle was a department of the First French Empire in present-day Belgium. It was named after the river Dyle, which flows through the department. Its territory corresponded more or less with that of the Belgian province of Brabant, now divided into Walloon Brabant, Flemish Brabant and the Brussels-Capital Region. Its capital was Brussels.
The department came into existence on 1 October 1795, after the Southern Netherlands were occupied by the French. The department of Dyle was formed from the southern part of the Duchy of Brabant, part of the County of Hainaut, ( Halle) and some smaller territories. See the 130 departments of the Napoleonic Empire.
The department was subdivided into the following arrondissements and cantons (situation in 1812):
- Brussels, cantons: Anderlecht, Asse, Brussels (4 cantons), Halle, La Hulpe, Sint-Martens-Lennik, Sint-Stevens-Woluwe, Uccle, Vilvoorde and Wolvertem.
- Leuven, cantons: Aarschot, Diest, Glabbeek, Grez, Haacht, Leuven (2 cantons), Tienen (2 cantons) and Zoutleeuw.
- Nivelles, cantons: Genappe, Herne, Jodoigne, Nivelles (2 cantons), Perwez and Wavre.
Its population in 1812 was 431,969, and its area was 342,848 hectares.
After the defeat of Napoleon the department became part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, as the province of (South) Brabant.
Usage examples of "dyle".
The atmosphere was too thin for Dyle, or perhaps the deathwinds swept by while she waited for us to find her.
I knew she had been spending her time lately with that egghead, Lieutenant Dyle, but I still wondered if she and Damon would hook up now that I was out of the picture.
It all seemed to be going well until Lieutenant Dyle shouted out over the radio.
It was only on the ground a second, and then up it went, Lieutenant Dyle in its grasp.
Due to the circumstances with Lieutenant Dyle, I decided not to note this in her log.
I never liked Dyle, because he was always debating the political intricacies of the war -- how who was right all depended on your point of view, or how the interstellar corporations really controlled everything.
Kaden Dyle, you are hereby found guilty of collaborating with known terrorists, a treasonous offense, and by Unity Defense regulations are hereby sentenced to immediate execution.
A great Anglo-French army rushed northeastward from the Franco-Belgian border to man the main Belgian defense line along the Dyle and Meuse rivers east of Brussels.
German attack through Belgium, called for the French First and Ninth armies and the British Expeditionary Force to dash forward to the principal Belgian defense line on the Dyle and Meuse rivers from Antwerp through Louvain, Namur and Givet to Mezieres.
Lord Gort, had joined the Belgians, as planned, on a strong defensive line running along the Dyle River from Antwerp through Louvain to Wavre and thence across the Gembloux gap to Namur and south along the Meuse to Sedan.
In fact, as late as the evening of May 15 the Belgian, British and French forces were holding firm on the Dyle line from Antwerp to Namur.
The hero is Sandor Dyle, a wealthy dilettante with a talent for pattern analysis.
This castle was situated on the Dyle, midway between Brussels and Louvain, and about eight miles from either city.
Dame au dela la Dyle, of the episcopal palace, and of a great part of our dear City of Malines.
It is a haunting question whether the whole policy of Plan D should not have been reviewed upon this basis, and whether we would not have been wiser to stand and fight on the French frontier, and amid these strong defences invite the Belgian Army to fall back upon them, rather than make the hazardous and hurried forward leap to the Dyle or the Albert Canal.