Sint-Joost-ten-Node or Saint-Josse-ten-Noode (sɛ̃ ˈʒos ten ˈnɔd; usually shortened to Saint-Josse) is one of the nineteen municipalities

Municipality

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 located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium

Belgium

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On 1 January 2007 the municipality had a total population of 23,785. The total area is 1.14 km² which gives a population density

Population density

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 of 20,664 inhabitants per km². With only 1.14 km², Saint-Josse-ten-Noode is both the municipality with the smallest territory and the highest population density in Belgium.

Nationalities

source : Institut National de Statistiques

Citizenship	1979		1995		2007
Belgium	12,222	54.5%	9,231	42.1%	14,656	61.6%
Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...	2,304	10.3%	3,904	18.1%	1,527	6.4%
Morocco Morocco Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...	2,664	11.9%	3,761	17.5%	1,482	6.2%
France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...	―	―	―	―	674	2.8%
Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...	1,661	7.4%	785	3.6%	458	1.9%
Congo (DRC) Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a state located in Central Africa. It is the second largest country in Africa by area and the eleventh largest in the world...	198	0.9%	―	―	453	1.9%
Poland Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...	―	―	―	―	432	1.8%
Romania Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...	―	―	―	―	387	1.6%
Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...	840	3.7%	443	2.1%	317	1.3%
Bulgaria Bulgaria Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...	―	―	―	―	251	1.1%
Total pop.	22,409		21,522		23,785

While foreigners were a majority in 1995, nowadays most of the population has Belgian citizenship, which has resulted in a sharp increase of municipal councillors with a foreign background, benefitting from the open proportional electoral system: from 0 in 1988 to 2 (from Morocco) in 1994, a near majority of 13 (7 from Morocco, 5 from Turkey) out of 27 in 2000 (including 3 aldermen) and a majority of 20 out of 27 in 2007 (including 6 aldermen out of 7, the seventh is a member of the Flemish minority ) .

Mayors of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

From: "Histoire de Saint Josse Ten Noode et de Schaerbeek - Van Bemmel - 1869" and other sources available at the local public library.

• André-Etienne-Joseph O'Kelly 1800 - 1808
• Jacques-Joseph De Glimes (GLIM) 1808
• Théodore-Nicolas-Joseph Aerts 1813
• Jacques-Joseph De Glimes (GLIM) 1815
• Jean-François Wauvermans 1813 - 1823
• Urbain Henri Verbist 1823 - 1842
• Léonard Constant Willems 29 December 1842 - 1846
• Jacques Joseph Damas Gillon 18 April 1846 - 1867
• Louis Guillaume Felix Sainctelette 13 February 1867
• Fritz Jottrand 1870 - 1884
• Armand Steurs 1885 - 1899
• Henri Frick 1900 - 1926
• Georges Petre 1926 - 1942 alderman, then mayor from 1926 until his destitution and assassination by the Rexists
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  in 1942)
• Joseph Dery 1944 - 1947
• André Saint-Remi 1947 - 1953
• Guy Cudell 1953 - 1999
• Jean Demannez 1999–present (councillor in 1976, alderman in 1977, mayor since 1999, reelected in 2000 and 2006)

External links

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