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Halle

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Halle , Fr. Hal, commune (1991 pop. 32,758), Flemish Brabant prov., central Belgium, on the Charleroi-Brussels Canal. It is a commercial and industrial center. Manufactures include textiles, carpets, and iron and steel products. Halle's Gothic Church of Our Lady (14th–15th cent.), a popular pilgrimage site, contains a celebrated miraculous image of the Virgin.

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Halle

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Halle, Belgium, Germany Germany (Saxony‐Anhalt): the full name, to distinguish it from the Halle in North Rhine‐Westphalia, is Halle an der Saale ‘Halle on the (River) Saale’. The name may be derived from the Middle High German hal(le) ‘salt works’ for which the city is noted.

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