Tirlemont

Tirlemont (Flemish Thienen), a town of Belgium, in South Brabant, on the Great Geete, 30 miles ESE. of Brussels by rail. It has two fine churches of the 12th and 13th centuries, and manufactures of machinery, hosiery, flannel, leather, sugar, &c. Once a large and prosperous city, Tirlemont was ravaged by Marlborough in 1705; and here the French, under Dumouriez, defeated the Austrians in 1793. Pop. 16,500.