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Quenast

place in Wallonia, Belgium

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ3414153 ↗
Source-derived summary

Quenast is a village and district of the municipality of Rebecq, located in the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium.

The village was part of the County of Hainaut and subservient to the castellan of Braine-le-Comte until the French Revolution and the French invasion of the Austrian Netherlands. The village church dates from 1855 but has an organ from 1596. There is a large quarry for porphyry in Quenast. The Lefebvre Brewery has operated in Quenast since 1876.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Quenast” is place in Wallonia, Belgium. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Quenast, place and Wallonia, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1855, 1596, 1876—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Quenast, place and Wallonia is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3414153. Authority coordinates are 50.667, 4.150. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1855, 1596 and 1876.

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This entry incorporates text from “Quenast” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.