Aalst (a city in East Flanders, Flanders, Belgium) · Aalst (an arrondissement of East Flanders, Flanders, Belgium) · a village and former municipality of Zaltbommel, Gelderland, Netherlands
köken: * (Zaltbommel) First attested as in uilla halosta around 850. Etymology uncertain. A proposed derivation from els (“alder, Alnus”) with collectivising suffix -t does not match well with old attestations of the toponym. Potentially derived from Proto-Germanic *alhust (“dwelling place, shrine”). Compare Elst, Maasniel, Nieuwaal, Niel, Niel-bij-As, Nivele and Waldniel. * (Noord-Brabant) First…