Andoy () is a village of the

city A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agree ...

Namur Namur (; ; ) is a city and municipality in Wallonia, Belgium. It is the capital both of the province of Namur and of Wallonia, hosting the Parliament of Wallonia, the Government of Wallonia and its administration. Namur stands at the confl ...

located in the

province of Namur Namur (; ; ) is a province of Wallonia, one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders (clockwise from the West) on the Walloon provinces of Hainaut, Walloon Brabant, Liège and Luxembourg in Belgium, and the French department of Ardennes. Its ...

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. Andoy was a separate

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for a short time, between 1795 and 1808, until it was merged to Wierde. On 1 January 1977, Wierde was

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into Namur. The late 19th-century Fort d'Andoy is located here.Donnell, Clayton (2007). ''The Forts of the Meuse in World War I''. Osprey. p. 32.

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Populated places in Namur (city) {{Namur-geo-stub