Melle is a
municipalityA municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly denotes a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them. A municipality is typically governed by a mayor and a city council or municipal council.The notion of municipality...
located in the
BelgianThe Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters, as well as those of other major international organizations, including NATO...
province of
East FlandersEast Flanders is a province of Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders on the Netherlands and in Belgium on the provinces of Antwerp, Flemish Brabant , of Hainaut and of West Flanders...
. The municipality comprises the villages of Gontrode and Melle proper. On January 1, 2006 Melle had a total population of 10,585. The total area is 15.21 km² which gives a
population densityPopulation density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans. It is a key term used in geography....
of 696 inhabitants per km².
Melle is already being mentioned in documents of the year 830, although the archeological findings prove the region was inhabited long before that date.
The name Melle has two possible meanings: The
CelticThe Celtic languages are descended from Proto-Celtic, or "Common Celtic", a branch of the greater Indo-European language family. The term "Celtic" was used to describe this language group by Edward Lhuyd in 1707, having much earlier been used by Greek and Roman writers to describe tribes in...
word
Melina means
Brown Water, on the other side the prehistoric name
Melinos means
Honey Yellow.
The village Melle consists of three regions: Melle-Centre, Melle-Vogelhoek and Gontrode (since the fusion in 1976).
One of its famous products is the
Delirium TremensDelirium tremens is an acute episode of delirium that is usually caused by withdrawal from alcohol, first described in 1813...
beer, bottled by the Huyghe brewery.
This beer is exported worldwide and has been elected as "Best beer in the world" in 1998 at the World Beer Championships in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Miss BelgiumThe Miss Belgium contest is the largest national beauty pageant of Belgium and has been held since 1969...
2000, Joke Van De Velde grew up and went to highschool in Melle.
The College van de paters Jozefieten, founded in 1837 by kanunnik Constant Van Crombrugghe is known all around the country.
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Melle is a
municipalityA municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly denotes a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them. A municipality is typically governed by a mayor and a city council or municipal council.The notion of municipality...
located in the
BelgianThe Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters, as well as those of other major international organizations, including NATO...
province of
East FlandersEast Flanders is a province of Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders on the Netherlands and in Belgium on the provinces of Antwerp, Flemish Brabant , of Hainaut and of West Flanders...
. The municipality comprises the villages of Gontrode and Melle proper. On January 1, 2006 Melle had a total population of 10,585. The total area is 15.21 km² which gives a
population densityPopulation density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans. It is a key term used in geography....
of 696 inhabitants per km².
Melle is already being mentioned in documents of the year 830, although the archeological findings prove the region was inhabited long before that date.
The name Melle has two possible meanings: The
CelticThe Celtic languages are descended from Proto-Celtic, or "Common Celtic", a branch of the greater Indo-European language family. The term "Celtic" was used to describe this language group by Edward Lhuyd in 1707, having much earlier been used by Greek and Roman writers to describe tribes in...
word
Melina means
Brown Water, on the other side the prehistoric name
Melinos means
Honey Yellow.
The village Melle consists of three regions: Melle-Centre, Melle-Vogelhoek and Gontrode (since the fusion in 1976).
One of its famous products is the
Delirium TremensDelirium tremens is an acute episode of delirium that is usually caused by withdrawal from alcohol, first described in 1813...
beer, bottled by the Huyghe brewery.
This beer is exported worldwide and has been elected as "Best beer in the world" in 1998 at the World Beer Championships in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Miss BelgiumThe Miss Belgium contest is the largest national beauty pageant of Belgium and has been held since 1969...
2000, Joke Van De Velde grew up and went to highschool in Melle.
The College van de paters Jozefieten, founded in 1837 by kanunnik Constant Van Crombrugghe is known all around the country. At this school different Belgian and international celebrities went to school (e.g. Cédric Van Brantegem (runner), a brother of Princess Mathilde, ...). This was the first school in Belgium where a commercial science and an industrial science course were offered. An Irish student brought along a football in 1863. This was the first football to reach the European continent.