History
The Arrondissement of Halle-Vilvoorde was established in 1963 when the language borders were determined. At that time, the then Administrative Arrondissement of Brussels, which had the same territory as the present-day Judicial Arrondissement of Brussels, was split into three administrative arrondissements, two of which still exist today:
- Brussels-Capital, which consists of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels Region;
- Halle-Vilvoorde, a unilingual Dutch-speaking administrative arrondissement;
- Brussels-Periphery, which consisted of the six Flemish municipalities with language facilities for French-speakers around Brussels.
On January 1, 1971, the Arrondissement of Brussels-Periphery ceased to exist and its municipalities were added to Halle-Vilvoorde.
In 1977, the then municipality of Muizen ceased to exist and was ceded to the Arrondissement of Mechelen, in the Province of Antwerp.
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