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Halluin (French pronunciation: ​[alɥɛ̃]; Dutch: Halewijn) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.[3]

Halluin
Commune
Mont d'Halluin district
Coat of arms
Location of Halluin
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Coordinates: 50°47′01″N 3°07′32″E
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Lille
Canton	Tourcoing-1
Intercommunality	Métropole Européenne de Lille
Government
• Mayor (2021–2026)	Jean-Christophe Destailleur[1]
Area 1	12.56 km2 (4.85 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2019)[2]	20,743
• Density	1,700/km2 (4,300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	59279 /59250
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

It is located at the north of the Métropole Européenne de Lille, on the Belgian border, contiguous with the Belgian town of Menen.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 3,030 —     1800 2,459 −2.94% 1806 2,831 +2.38% 1821 3,242 +0.91% 1831 3,750 +1.47% 1836 4,240 +2.49% 1841 4,264 +0.11% 1846 4,851 +2.61% 1851 5,408 +2.20% 1856 8,410 +9.23% 1861 10,803 +5.14% 1866 13,673 +4.82% 1872 12,946 −0.91% 1876 13,771 +1.56% 1881 14,020 +0.36% 1886 14,678 +0.92% 1891 14,841 +0.22% 1896 15,781 +1.24%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 16,599 +1.02% 1906 16,158 −0.54% 1911 15,480 −0.85% 1921 13,760 −1.17% 1926 13,932 +0.25% 1931 13,588 −0.50% 1936 13,278 −0.46% 1946 12,935 −0.26% 1954 13,345 +0.39% 1962 14,138 +0.72% 1968 14,829 +0.80% 1975 15,491 +0.63% 1982 16,444 +0.86% 1990 17,629 +0.87% 1999 18,997 +0.83% 2007 19,757 +0.49% 2012 20,770 +1.01% 2017 20,800 +0.03%
Source: EHESS[4] and INSEE (1968-2017)[5]

Transport

The Halluin railway station, closed in the 1970s, was situated on the Somain-Halluin Railway. The town is now served by buses of Ilévia.

The A22 autoroute links the town to Lille and Belgium.

Heraldry

The arms of Halluin are blazoned : Argent, 3 lions sable langued gules, armed and crowned Or.

Politics

An erstwhile bastion of the left, Halluin owes its nickname Halluin the Red to the powerful trade unions who used their influence to support Communist mayors during the interwar period. However, since the 1990s Halluin has become gentrified (see also below), and in the 2007 and 2012 presidential elections the town backed Nicolas Sarkozy.

In the 2014 mayoral elections, 62% of voters chose right-wing parties: Gustave Dassonville (UMP) received 40% of the votes and Jean‑Christophe Destailleur (Centre-right) received 22% of the votes. Left-wing parties, with 38% of the votes, were defeated, and Gustave Dassonville was elected.[6] Six years later, in 2020, Jean‑Christophe Destailleur (Centre-right) was elected mayor of Halluin.

Despite the noted gentrification of Halluin, the neighbouring town of Menen, Belgium, situated within walking distance of central Halluin, underwent a simultaneous radicalization, given the municipality's attempts to ban its employees from speaking French to Francophone people whose command of Dutch may be limited, and to use sign language instead. While some townsfolk of Halluin's adjoining conurbation may have regarded this as a brave attempt to enforce Flemish supremacy over Francophone neighbours, others, including Francophone neighbours themselves, and international observers may have regarded such a measure as allegedly fanatical and insensitive to the needs of Francophone neighbours with limited command of Dutch. International press comment was provoked by these municipal regulations.[7]

Points of interest

• Parc Arboretum du Manoir aux Loups

Twin towns

Halluin is twinned with:

• Menen, Belgium
• Oer-Erkenschwick, Germany - since 1969
• North Tyneside, England - since 1994
• Pniewy, Poland - since 1998
• Lübbenau, Germany - since 2000
• Kočevje, Slovenia - since 2000
• Zulte, Belgium - since 2010

See also

• Communes of the Nord department

References

External links

• What happens to a border, if the river changes course ? 'Tim Traveller' in YouTube
• Halluin official website (in French)
• 100% Halluin (in French)
• Halluin Tawhid Masjeed official website (in French)

На других языках

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[de] Halluin

Halluin (niederländisch Halewijn)[1] ist eine französische Stadt mit 20.743 Einwohnern (Stand 1. Januar 2019) im Département Nord in der Region Hauts-de-France.

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- [en] Halluin

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[ru] Аллюэн

Аллюэ́н (фр. Halluin) — коммуна во Франции, регион О-де-Франс, департамент Нор, округ Лилль, кантон Туркуэн-1. Расположена на границе с Бельгией, в 17 км к северо-востоку от Лилля, в 5 км от автомагистрали А22, на реке Лис.

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