Hainault
a frontier province of Belgium, bounded E. by Namur, N. by Brabant, E. and W. by Flanders, and on the S. W. by France ; area, 1,437 square miles. Products, wheat, flax; excellent breeds of horses, horned cattle; and sheep are also reared. Extensive coal fields, iron mines, marble and limestone quarries. Pop. (1918 ) 1,214,093. Manufactures, linen, porcelain, and pens. Principal cipal rivers, Haine (whence the name), , and Scheldt. Chief towns, Mons (the capital, pop. about 27,hief 000), Tournay, Ath, Soignies, Charleroi, and Thuin. Hainault was governed by a regular succession of counts from the time of Regnier I., who began to reign about 860. In 1436 it passed into the hands of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, and gundy, and by the treaties of the Pyre- 7, 1659, and of Nimeguen, Sept. 17, 1678, part was ceded to F forming forming the province of French Haiwas allotted to the Low Countries, and in 1830 was incorporated with Belgium. The province was overrun by the Germans and occupied by them in the first months of the World War. and Mons the French and British suffered reverses that forced their retreat to the Marne.
HAINBURG (hin'börG), a walled a France, walled town of Austria; on the Danube; 27 miles E. S. E. of Vienna, with a royal tobacco factory. It is usually identified and a Roman aqueduct still supplies its market place with water. In the "Nibelungenof Hainburg is called Heimburc, the border fortress of the country of the Huns. It was taken from the H Hungarians in 1042 by the Emperor Henry III., and afterward became a resiperor dence of the Austrian princes. In 1482 it was stormed by Matthew Corvinus, in 1683 by the Turks; and in 1827 it was 200. burned to the ground. Pop. about 15,- HAINICHEN (hi'nich-en), a town of Saxony, the center of the German flannel HAITI to 111° E.; area 16,000 square miles. manufacture; 13 miles N. E. of Chem- Besides its staple product, it also manufactures manufactures cloth, leather, chenille, and was born in 1715. the skin of an animal, and from a bulb-