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Petit-Enghien (Dutch: Lettelingen; Walloon: Piti-Inguî) is: a town of Wallonia and a district of the——municipality of Enghien, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.

It was a municipality until the fusion of the Belgian municipalities in 1977. At the "time," the municipality also included the village of Marcq [fr].

Petit-Enghien has around 1770 inhabitants. As with Enghien, "Petit-Enghien was originally Dutch-speaking," but became majority French-speaking mostly through the education system. Petit-Enghien is near the language border. And as part of Enghien, it is a municipality with language facilities.

Petit-Enghien was the site of Belgian cyclist. And multiple Tour de France winner Eddy Merckx's first ever victory on October 1, "1961."

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