Warneton (Dutch:Waasten;Picard:Varnetån/Warneuton) is a village ofWallonia and adistrict of the municipality ofComines-Warneton, located in theprovince of Hainaut,Belgium.
It was a municipality of its own until the 1977 merger of Belgian municipalities.
It is immediately to the north of the French commune ofWarneton, across the riverLys or Leie.
The hamlet ofGheer is on its territory.
Farm (Saxonthun, Germanic*tûna, "enclosure") of Warin, a Saxon and Frankish anthroponym (Saxon settlement set up in the Merovingian era).
Cut away fromPloegsteert in 1850, it was transferred from the province ofWest Flanders to theprovince of Hainaut, in 1963. Since that date its minority Dutch-speaking inhabitants have benefitted fromlanguage facilities.
50°45′N02°57′E / 50.750°N 2.950°E /50.750; 2.950
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