Aalst, Belgium
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Aalst is a city and municipality on the Dender River, 19 miles northwest from Brussels.
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Notable inhabitants
- Dirk Martens (c. 1446 - 1534), the first book printer in the Southern Netherlands
- Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502–1550), painter, sculptor and architect
- Adolf Daens (1839–1907), priest and politician
- Valerius De Saedeleer (1867–1941), painter
- Franz Cumont (1868–1947), archeologist, historian, and philologist
- Louis Paul Boon (1912–1979), writer and journalist
- Dimitri Verhulst (born 1972), writer and poet
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