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Aalst is a small town in the province of East Flanders-Belgium.At the marketplace you will find, among other things, the beautiful belfry and the statue of Dirk Martens. Dirk Martens (Latin: Theodoricus Martinus)(1446 or 1447 � 28 May 1534) was a printer and editor in the County of Flanders. He published over fifty books by Erasmus and the very first edition of Thomas More's Utopia.He was the first to print Greek and Hebrew characters in the Netherlands.In 1856 a statue of Martens was erected on the main square of the town of his birth, Aalst.