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Nandrin
Nandrin () is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. On January 1, 2006, Nandrin had a total population of 5,539. The total area is 35.90 km² which gives a population density of 154 inhabitants per km². The municipality consists of the following districts: Nandrin, Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz, Villers-le-Temple, and Yernée-Fraineux. Notable residents *Ovide Musin (1854–1929), violinist and composer, born in Nandrin See also * List of protected heritage sites in Nandrin This table shows an overview of the beschermd erfgoed, protected heritage sites in the Walloon town Nandrin. This list is part of Belgium's National Heritage Site (Belgium), national heritage. See also * List of prote ... References External links * Municipalities of Liège Province {{Liege-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Protected Heritage Sites In Nandrin
This table shows an overview of the beschermd erfgoed, protected heritage sites in the Walloon town Nandrin. This list is part of Belgium's National Heritage Site (Belgium), national heritage. See also * List of protected heritage sites in Liège (province) *Nandrin {{Commons category, Cultural heritage monuments in Nandrin References * Belgian heritage register: Direction générale opérationnelle - Aménagement du territoire, Logement, Patrimoine et Energie (DGwww.dglive.be Lists of protected heritage sites in Liège Province, Nandrin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villers-le-Temple
Villers-le-Temple is a village and district of the municipality of Nandrin, located in the province of Liège in Wallonia, Belgium. The location has been inhabited at least since the Neolithic and the village derives its name from a Roman villa that was located here. During the Middle Ages, the village belonged to the Knights Templar until their suppression in 1313. It then passed to the Order of Malta, which retained the village until 1795.There are still substantial remains of the medieval commandery of the Templars in the village. The chancel In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building. It may terminate in an apse. Ov ... of the village church is also medieval, Late Gothic from the 16th century, while much of the rest of the building is from the 17th century. There is also a manor ''(Manoir de la Tour)'' tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz
Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz is a village and district of the municipality of Nandrin, located in the province of Liège in Wallonia, Belgium. The village grew up around a Cluniac priory, formed in 1091. The priory was later ceded to the Prince-Bishopric of Liège and later the Jesuits , image = Ihs-logo.svg , image_size = 175px , caption = ChristogramOfficial seal of the Jesuits , abbreviation = SJ , nickname = Jesuits , formation = , founders = ..., before being suppressed in 1773. The Cluniac monks also built the current, unusually well-preserved Romanesque village church, the . References External links * {{Liege-geo-stub Populated places in Liège Province ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ovide Musin
Ovide Musin (1854–1929) was a Belgian violinist and composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Def .... Life Musin was born in Nandrin, Belgium in 1854. He started learning violin at the age of six. In 1891, he married Annie Louise Tanner. He died in New York in the year 1929. Career In 1884, he gave his first concert in America. He then went on a tour of the United States in which he got to perform at many cities. In 1898, he returned to Belgium, where he was appointed as a professor at the Brussels conservatory where he himself had studied. Bibliography His autobiography, entitled ''My Memories,'' is an important source for his life and career. References External links * Belgian classical violinists Male classical violinists Belgian compos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modave
Modave (; wa, Modåve) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. On January 1, 2006, Modave had a total population of 3,722. The total area is 40.37 km² which gives a population density of 92 inhabitants per km². The municipality consists of the following districts: Modave, Outrelouxhe, Strée, and Vierset-Barse. The ''Château des Comtes de Marchin'' or Modave Castle is situated near the village of Modave. Rennequin Sualem built here what became the model for the famous Machine de Marly, which he invented. See also * List of protected heritage sites in Modave This table shows an overview of the protected heritage sites in the Walloon town Modave. This list is part of Belgium's national heritage. See also * List of protected heritage sites in Liège (province) This ... References External links * Municipalities of Liège Province {{Liege-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tinlot
Tinlot () is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. On January 1, 2006 Tinlot had a total population of 2,346. The total area is 37.12 km² which gives a population density Population density (in agriculture: Stock (other), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geographical ... of 63 inhabitants per km². The municipality consists of the following districts: Abée, Fraiture, Ramelot, Seny, and Soheit-Tinlot. See also * List of protected heritage sites in Tinlot References External links * Municipalities of Liège Province {{Liege-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthisnes
Anthisnes (; wa, Antene) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of liège, Belgium. On 1 January 2006 Anthisnes had a total population of 3,998. The total area is 37.08 km² which gives a population density of 108 inhabitants per km². The municipality consists of the following districts: Anthisnes, Hody, Tavier, and Villers-aux-Tours. Famous inhabitants * Marc Tarabella, mayor, member of the European Parliament A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ... See also * List of protected heritage sites in Anthisnes References External links * Municipalities of Liège Province {{Liege-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neupré
Neupré (; wa, Li Noûpré) is a wallonian municipality of Belgium located in the province of Liège. On January 1, 2006, Neupré had a total population of 9,798. The total area is 31.69 km² which gives a population density of 309 inhabitants per km². The municipality consists of the following districts: Éhein, Neuville-en-Condroz, Plainevaux, and Rotheux-Rimière. The name of Neupré is coined on the first letters of the districts : NEUville, Plainevaux, Rotheux and Éhein. On the southeast edge of Neupré lies the Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial, the resting place of over 5,000 American soldiers who died in Northern Europe during World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing .... Politics and administration List of mayors * 1977-1982 : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Engis
Engis (; wa, Indji) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. On 1 January 2006 Engis had a total population of 5,686. The total area is 27.74 km² which gives a population density of 205 inhabitants per km². The municipality consists of the following districts: Clermont-sous-Huy, Engis and Hermalle-sous-Huy. In 1829, in this village, Philippe-Charles Schmerling discovered the first Neanderthal ever, Engis 2, the damaged skull of a young child. This was before the 1856 discovery of the Neanderthal type specimen in the Neander Valley. Its importance was not recognised until 1936. Pollution fatalities In late 1930 and early 1931, several thousand cases of acute pulmonary attacks occurred in the Meuse valley, centered on Engis, and 60 people died. A commission of inquiry set up by the Belgian government concluded that the cause was poisonous waste gases, primarily sulfur dioxide, emitted by the many factories in the valley and the furna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrondissement Of Huy
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The Arrondissement of Huy (french: links=no, Arrondissement de Huy; nl, links=no, Arrondissement Hoei) is one of the four administrative arrondissements in the Walloon province of Liège, Belgium. Municipalities The Administrative Arrondissement of Huy consists of the following municipalities: * Amay * Anthisnes * Burdinne * Clavier * Engis * Ferrières * Hamoir * Héron * Huy * Marchin * Modave * Nandrin * Ouffet * Tinlot * Verlaine * Villers-le-Bouillet * Wanze References Huy Huy ( or ; nl, Hoei, ; wa, Hu) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. Huy lies along the river Meuse, at the mouth of the small river Hoyoux. It is in the ''sillon industriel'', the former industrial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amay
Amay (; wa, Ama) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. On 1 January 2006 Amay had a total population of approximately 14,231. The total area is 27.61 km2 which gives a population density of approximately 476 inhabitants per km2. It owes its site to a ford of the Meuse that was still in use in the Middle Ages but had begun as a Gallo-Roman ''vicus'' of the ''civitas Tungrorum'' (Tongeren). The municipality consists of the following districts: Amay, Ampsin, Flône, Jehay, and Ombret-Rawsa. Places of interest * Castle of Jehay-Bodegnée, a 16th-century castle Famous inhabitants * François Walther de Sluze (1622–1685), mathematician and abbot of Amay * Zénobe Gramme Zénobe Théophile Gramme (4 April 1826 – 20 January 1901) was a Belgian electrical engineer. He was born at Jehay-Bodegnée on 4 April 1826, the sixth child of Mathieu-Joseph Gramme, and died at Bois-Colombes on 20 January 1901. He invented ... (1824-1902 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liège Province
Liège (; wa, Lîdje ; nl, Luik ; german: Lüttich ) is the easternmost province of the Wallonia region of Belgium. Liège Province is the only Belgian province that has borders with three countries. It borders (clockwise from the north) the Dutch province of Limburg, the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, Clervaux (canton) in Luxembourg, the Belgian Walloon (French-speaking) provinces of Luxembourg, Namur and Walloon Brabant and the Belgian Flemish (Dutch-speaking) provinces of Flemish Brabant and Limburg. Part of the eastern-most area of the province, bordering Germany, is the German-speaking region of Eupen-Malmedy, which became part of Belgium in the aftermath of World War I. The capital and the largest city of the province is the city of the same name, Liège. The province has an area of , and a population of 1,106,992 as of January 2019. History The modern borders of the province of Liège date from 1795, which saw the unification ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
