It is located north of the city of Tienen and is divided into two parishes: Sint-Maartens and Sint-Pieters.
Old Latin and Dutch names: 1147 Fennache, 1214 vissnake, 1217 de Fenaco, 1226 Vesnaken.
Vissenaken can be reconstituted as *Fassiniacas: this is the German name Fasso + the adjective iniacas.
Vissenaken thus means: with the people of Fasso.
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