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Enghien is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut. On January1, 2006, Enghien had a total population of 11,980. The total area is, which gives a population density of 295 inhabitants per km².The municipality comprises the city of Enghien, and the towns and Petit-Enghien. . It is situated on the language border in the country, and restricted language rights are granted to the Dutch speaking minority .HistoryEnghien gave its name to a French duchy and to the commune of Enghien-les-Bains, a suburb of Paris, due to a complex series of family successions: in 1487, Mary of Luxembourg (d. 1547), the only heir of Peter II of Luxembourg (d. 1482), Count of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise and member of one of the branches of the House of Luxembourg, married François de Bourbon-Vendôme (d. 1495), the great-grandfather of King Henry IV of France. Mary of Luxembourg brought as her dowry the fief of Condé-en-Brie (Aisne département, France) and the county of Enghien, among others. These fiefs passed to her grandson Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, uncle of King Henry IV of France, who started the line of the Princes of Condé, the famous cadet branch of the French royal family.