Boignée

Boignée (French pronunciation: [bwaɲe]; Walloon: Bwagnéye) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Sombreffe, located in the province of Namur, Belgium.

Boignée Bwagnéye (Walloon)
Village
The church neighbourhood
Boignée
Coordinates: 50°31′26.78″N 4°33′23.96″E
Country	Belgium
Region	Wallonia
Province	Namur
Municipality	Sombreffe
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)

Previously its own municipality, a 1977 fusion of the Belgian municipalities made it an ancienne commune of Sombreffe. Boignée is on the banks of the river Ligny.

History

The village of Boignée was a location taken up and defended by the Prussian army during the Battle of Ligny on 16 June 1815.^[1]