Sint-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde is a part of the municipality of Dendermonde in the Denderstreek in East Flanders in Belgium, a typical agricultural village in the Dendervallei near the junction of the railroads to Ghent, Mechelen and Brussels. Sint-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde is birthplace to poet Emmanuel Hiel and literature historian Wies Moens . Sint-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde has a yearly flower show on the first Sunday of September, a parade of flower-covered floats built in the several districts of Sint-Gillis, to a different theme each year. On 23 January 2009, a man attacked a children's daycare centre in the village, killing at least three people and woun...
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