Boignée
Village in Namur Province, Belgium
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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.
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]
