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( Walloon Region)
The Walloon Region, commonly called Wallonia, is one of the three Regions of Belgium. It represents 33% of the population and 55% of the territory of Belgium. The region is predominantly French-speaking but there are also German-speaking municipalities in the east (2% of the population). Its official languages are French and German. As the other regions, the Walloon Region has its own parliament and government and exercises its functions by the limits defined by the Belgian constitution. Wallonia owns also the Treaty-Making Policy as the other Belgian entities, an exception, followwing Philippe Suinen, among the Federal States, and, as pointing out recently by Michel Quévit professor emeritus at the Université Catholique de Louvain, a quasi State [1] From 1831, the year of Belgium's independence, until the federalization of the country in 1970, Wallonia has increasingly asserted itself as a region in its own right. [2] Its capital is Namur. The territory of the Walloon Region is defined by the Belgian constitution "The Walloon region is made up of the following provinces The Walloon Brabant, Hainaut, Liège, Luxemburg and Namur."[3]
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