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Baelen
Baelen (; wa, Bailou) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. On January 1, 2006, Baelen had a total population of 4,060. The total area is 85.73 km² which gives a population density of 47.36 inhabitants per km². The municipality consists of the following districts: Baelen and Membach. Notable people Born in Baelen: * (1904–1944), priest and member of the Belgian Resistance during World War II Residing in Baelen: *Sunday Oliseh Sunday Ogochukwu Oliseh (born 14 September 1974) is a Nigerian football manager and former player. In his active playing career he played as a defensive midfielder. Physical yet technically gifted, he played for top European clubs including A ..., a former Nigerian footballer and coach * Marc Lacroix, biochemist and breast cancer researcher See also * List of protected heritage sites in BaelenBelgian heritage register: Direction générale opérationnelle - Aménagement du territoire, Logement, Patrim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Protected Heritage Sites In Baelen
This table shows an overview of the protected heritage sites in the Walloon town Baelen. This list is part of Belgium's national heritage. See also * List of protected heritage sites in Liège (province) * Baelen Baelen (; wa, Bailou) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. On January 1, 2006, Baelen had a total population of 4,060. The total area is 85.73 km² which gives a population density of 47.36 inhabitants ... {{Commons category, Cultural heritage monuments in Baelen 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, Baelen Baelen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baelen
Baelen (; wa, Bailou) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. On January 1, 2006, Baelen had a total population of 4,060. The total area is 85.73 km² which gives a population density of 47.36 inhabitants per km². The municipality consists of the following districts: Baelen and Membach. Notable people Born in Baelen: * (1904–1944), priest and member of the Belgian Resistance during World War II Residing in Baelen: *Sunday Oliseh Sunday Ogochukwu Oliseh (born 14 September 1974) is a Nigerian football manager and former player. In his active playing career he played as a defensive midfielder. Physical yet technically gifted, he played for top European clubs including A ..., a former Nigerian footballer and coach * Marc Lacroix, biochemist and breast cancer researcher See also * List of protected heritage sites in BaelenBelgian heritage register: Direction générale opérationnelle - Aménagement du territoire, Logement, Patrim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Membach
Membach is a village and district of the municipality of Baelen, located in the province of Liège in Wallonia, Belgium. The first time the village is mentioned in written sources is in a document dated 1172. During the 19th century, lead and zinc Zinc is a chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30. Zinc is a slightly brittle metal at room temperature and has a shiny-greyish appearance when oxidation is removed. It is the first element in group 12 (IIB) of the periodic t ... was extracted here. The village church dates from 1722 but has been altered on several occasions since then. There are several historic buildings in the village. References External links * {{Liege-geo-stub Populated places in Liège Province ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Lacroix (biochemist)
Marc Guy Albert Marie Lacroix (; born 28 April 1963 in Verviers, Wallonia, Belgium) is a biochemist (educated at University of Liège) and a researcher who specializes in breast cancer biology, metastasis and therapy. He works at Institut Jules Bordet (Brussels, Belgium). He lives in Baelen Earlier work Breast cancer cells (BCC) frequently metastasize to the skeleton, where they lead to tumor-induced osteolysis and subsequent morbidity. Marc Lacroix has investigated the interrelationships between BCC and bone cells (osteoblasts, the bone-building cells, and osteoclasts, the bone-degrading cells). With colleagues, he discovered that BCC produce soluble factors increasing osteoclast activity, notably interleukin-11, the production of which is reduced by the cyclooxygenase inhibitor aspirin. BCC also reduce the proliferation of osteoblasts and their production of collagen, the main protein component of bone. Marc Lacroix also examined the response BCC to the anti-osteolytic agent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jalhay
Jalhay (; wa, Djalhé) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. On 1 January 2006 Jalhay had a total population of 7,953. The total area is 107.75 km² which gives a population density of 74 inhabitants per km². The municipality consists of the following districts: Jalhay and Sart. The highest point of the municipality is the Baraque Michel in the High Fens The High Fens (german: Hohes Venn; french: Hautes Fagnes; nl, Hoge Venen), which were declared a nature reserve in 1957, are an upland area, a plateau region in Liège Province, in the east of Belgium and adjoining parts of Germany, between the ..., at . See also * List of protected heritage sites in Jalhay References External links * Municipalities of Liège Province {{Liege-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limbourg
Limbourg (; German and Dutch: ''Limburg''; wa, Limbôr) or Limbourg-sur-Vesdre is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. On 1 January 2008, Limbourg had a total population of 5,680. The total area is 24.63 km² which gives a population density of 231 inhabitants per km². The municipality consists of the following districts: Bilstain, Goé, and Limbourg. The lower part of the town, along the Vesdre, is called Dolhain. Etymology and history The second part of the name Limbourg is from ''burg'' meaning a fortified town, which is common in many parts of Europe where Germanic languages are spoken or have been spoken historically (see Germanic placename etymology). Concerning the first part of the name, there are various theories. One is ''lint'' meaning "dragon". Another is that it refers back to the Roman-era limes, situated at boundaries of the Empire. It may also have been related to the material ''lim'' or lime. Jean-Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waimes
Waimes (; german: Weismes, ; wa, Waime) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. On January 1, 2006, Waimes had a total population of 6,728. The total area is 96.93 km2 which gives a population density of 69 inhabitants per km2. Waimes is one of two mostly French-speaking municipalities in the East Cantons, the other being Malmedy. German as a minority language is also still widely spoken in Waimes to this day. The other surrounding municipalities in the area are part of the main German-speaking Community of Belgium. The municipality consists of the following districts A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...: Faymonville, Robertville (including the village of Ovifat), and Waimes. See also * List of protected heritage sites ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eupen
Eupen (, ; ; formerly ) is the capital of German-speaking Community of Belgium and is a city and municipality in the Belgian province of Liège, from the German border ( Aachen), from the Dutch border (Maastricht) and from the " High Fens" nature reserve (Ardennes). The town is also the capital of the Euroregion Meuse-Rhine. First mentioned in 1213 as belonging to the Duchy of Limburg, possession of Eupen passed to Brabant, Burgundy, the Holy Roman Empire and France before being given in 1815 to Prussia, which became part of the new German Empire in 1871. In 1919, after the First World War, the Treaty of Versailles transferred Eupen and the nearby municipality of Malmedy from Germany to Belgium. German remains the official language in Eupen (also spoken in the form of the Eupen dialect), and the city serves as the capital for Belgium's German-speaking Community. The city has a small university, the ', offering bachelor's degrees in Education and Nursing. In 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welkenraedt
Welkenraedt (; Ripuarian: ; wa, Welkenrote) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. On January 1, 2018, Welkenraedt had a total population of 9,920. The total area is 24.47 km² which gives a population density of 405 inhabitants per km². The municipality consists of the following districts: Henri-Chapelle and Welkenraedt. The town and former municipality of Henri-Chapelle is home to the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial which contains the graves of 7,992 members of the American military who died in World War II. Gallery Image:Welkenraedt - Gemeindehaus.jpg, Town hall Image:Welkenraedt, kerk foto2 2011-09-26 15.38.JPG, Church Twin towns * Nove, Italy * Epfig, France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan ar ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrondissement Of Verviers
The Arrondissement of Verviers (french: links=no, Arrondissement de Verviers; german: links=no, Verwaltungsbezirk Verviers; nl, links=no, Arrondissement Verviers) is one of the four administrative Arrondissements of Belgium, arrondissements in the Wallonia, Walloon Provinces of Belgium, province of Liège (province), Liège, Belgium. It includes all the 9 municipalities of the German-speaking Community of Belgium, German-speaking Community (about 1/4 of population), while the remaining 20 municipalities in the Arrondissement of Verviers are part of the French Community of Belgium, French-speaking Community. The Administrative Arrondissement of Verviers consists of the following Municipalities of Belgium, municipalities: * Amel * Aubel * Baelen * Büllingen * Burg-Reuland * Bütgenbach * Dison * Eupen * Herve * Jalhay * Kelmis * Lierneux * Limbourg * Lontzen * Malmedy * Olne * Pepinster * Plombières * Raeren * Sankt Vith * Spa, Belgium, Spa * Stavelot * Stoumont * Theux * Th ... [...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] |
Socialist Party (Belgium)
nl, Socialistische Partijgerman: Sozialistische Partei , abbreviation = PS , logo = Socialist Party (Belgium) logo.svg , leader1_title = President , leader1_name = Paul Magnette , foundation = 1978 , predecessor = Belgian Socialist Party , headquarters = National SecretariatBd de l'Empereur/Keizerslaan 13, Brussels , youth_wing = Movement of Young Socialists , think_tank = Institut Emile Vandervelde , ideology = Progressivismhttps://www.ps.be/Content/Uploads/PSOfficiel/PDFs/170%20engagements%20A5-3.pdf Eco-socialismhttps://www.ps.be/Content/Uploads/PSOfficiel/PDFs/170%20engagements%20A5-3.pdf Pro-Europeanism , position = , international = Progressive AllianceSocialist International , european = Party of European Socialists , europarl = Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats , affiliation1_title = Flemish counterpart , affiliation1 = Vooruit , seats1_title = ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
