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Evere municipality in the Brussels-Caipital Region

Evere is ane o the nineteen municipalities locatit in the Brussels-Caipital Region o Belgium. On Januar 1, 2006 the municipality haed a tot population o 33,462.

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Brussels Cemetery, is pairtly in Evere an pairtly in the municipality o Zaventem in Flemish Brabant.

In September 2008 a umwhile windmill in Evere, oreeginally biggit in 1841, wis opened as the 'Brussels Mill an Food Museum' (Musée bruxellois du Moulin et de l’Alimentation).[1]

Evere is served bi Evere railway station on line 26 (which goes frae Halle tae Vilvoorde). Bordet railway station, on the same line, is an aa in the municipality.

The headquarters o the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) are locatit in Evere an in Haren (pairt of Brussels ceety).

Charles Lindbergh flew the Spirit of St. Louis tae Evere airfield efter his historic 1927 transatlantic flicht tae Paris. He wis walcomed bi a croud o ower 25,000.

  1. "Musée bruxellois du Moulin et de l'Alimentation :: Evere" (in French). www.evere.be. 19 September 2008. Retrieved 7 October 2008. [deid airtin]

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