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86 relations: Albert Dupuis, Ancient Rome, André Blavier, Arles, Éliane Reyes, Battle of Waterloo, Bradford, Brandon Deville, Cartoonist, Centre démocrate humaniste, Charles the Simple, Christian Beck (poet), Clovis I, Comic strip, David Murgia, Dison, Dominique Monami, Eighty Years' War, Emile Fabry, Ensival, Eric van de Poele, Formula One, Franchimont Castle, Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, French Revolution, Georges Ruggiu, Gothic Revival architecture, Guillaume Lekeu, Henri Pirenne, Henri Vieuxtemps, Herve, Industrial Revolution, Insoumise et dévoilée, Jacques Drèze, Jacques Stotzem, Jalhay, January 2015 anti-terrorism operations in Belgium, Jean Haust, Jean Vallée, Jean-Jacques Andrien, Jean-Marie Klinkenberg, La Motte-Chalancon, Liège, Liège (province), Limbourg, Linguistics, List of protected heritage sites in Verviers, Luc Sante, Marc Lacroix (biochemist), Marquess, ..., Mathieu Crickboom, Maurane, Mönchengladbach, Merovingian dynasty, Mouvement Réformateur, Municipalities of Belgium, Music, Neoclassical architecture, Netherlands, Nornagest, Pepinster, Philippe Gilbert, Philippe Maystadt, Pierre Rapsat, Pope Adrian IV, Prince-Bishopric of Liège, Provinces of Belgium, Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, Raymond Macherot, René Hausman, Roger Leloup, Roubaix, Rwandan genocide, Salian Franks, Sillon industriel, Singing, Stavelot, Steve Houben, Theux, Verviers, Vicus, Violetta Villas, Wallonia, William Cockerill, World War I, Yvan Ylieff. Expand index (36 more) »
Albert Dupuis
Albert Dupuis (1 March 1877 – 19 September 1967) was a Belgian composer.
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Ancient Rome
In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.
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André Blavier
André Blavier (23 October 1922 – 12 June 2001) was a Belgian poet.
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Arles
Arles (Provençal Arle in both classical and Mistralian norms; Arelate in Classical Latin) is a city and commune in the south of France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, of which it is a subprefecture, in the former province of Provence.
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Éliane Reyes
Éliane Reyes (June 7, 1977 in Verviers) is a Belgian pianist who is known both as a soloist and as a chamber musician.
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Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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Bradford
Bradford is in the Metropolitan Borough of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England, in the foothills of the Pennines west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield.
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Brandon Deville
Brandon Deville (born 17 February 1993 in Verviers) is a Belgian footballer who currently plays for Lommel United in the Belgian Second Division.
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Cartoonist
A cartoonist (also comic strip creator) is a visual artist who specializes in drawing cartoons.
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Centre démocrate humaniste
The Humanist Democratic Centre (Centre démocrate humaniste, cdH) is a Christian democratic French-speaking political party in Belgium.
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Charles the Simple
Charles III (17 September 879 – 7 October 929), called the Simple or the Straightforward (from the Latin Carolus Simplex), was the King of West Francia from 898 until 922 and the King of Lotharingia from 911 until 919–23.
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Christian Beck (poet)
Christian Beck (4 January 1879 in Verviers – 29 February 1916) was a Belgian poet.
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Clovis I
Clovis (Chlodovechus; reconstructed Frankish: *Hlōdowig; 466 – 27 November 511) was the first king of the Franks to unite all of the Frankish tribes under one ruler, changing the form of leadership from a group of royal chieftains to rule by a single king and ensuring that the kingship was passed down to his heirs.
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Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.
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David Murgia
David Murgia (born 16 March 1988) is a Belgian actor.
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Dison
Dison is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Liège.
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Dominique Monami
Dominique Monami (born 31 May 1973) is a Belgian former professional female tennis player.
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Eighty Years' War
The Eighty Years' War (Tachtigjarige Oorlog; Guerra de los Ochenta Años) or Dutch War of Independence (1568–1648) was a revolt of the Seventeen Provinces of what are today the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg against the political and religious hegemony of Philip II of Spain, the sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands.
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Emile Fabry
Emile Fabry (Verviers, 1865–1966) was a Belgian artist and painter.
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Ensival
Ensival (in Walloon Enzivå) is a section of the Belgian town of Verviers situated in Wallonia, in the province of Liège.
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Eric van de Poele
Eric van de Poele (born 30 September 1961 in Verviers) is a Belgian racing driver and former Formula One driver.
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Formula One
Formula One (also Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of single-seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and owned by the Formula One Group.
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Franchimont Castle
Franchimont Castle (Château de Franchimont) is a medieval castle in the municipality of Theux, province of Liège, Belgium.
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Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick I (Friedrich I, Federico I; 1122 – 10 June 1190), also known as Frederick Barbarossa (Federico Barbarossa), was the Holy Roman Emperor from 2 January 1155 until his death.
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French Revolution
The French Revolution (Révolution française) was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that lasted from 1789 until 1799.
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Georges Ruggiu
Georges Henri Yvon Joseph Ruggiu (born October 12, 1957 in Verviers, Belgium) was a presenter on the Rwandan radio station Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, which played a significant role in promoting the Rwandan Genocide.
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Gothic Revival architecture
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England.
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Guillaume Lekeu
Jean Joseph Nicolas Guillaume Lekeu (20 January 1870 – 21 January 1894) was a Belgian composer of classical music.
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Henri Pirenne
Henri Pirenne (23 December 1862 – 24 October 1935) was a Belgian historian.
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Henri Vieuxtemps
Henri François Joseph Vieuxtemps (17 February 18206 June 1881) was a Belgian composer and violinist. He occupies an important place in the history of the violin as a prominent exponent of the Franco-Belgian violin school during the mid-19th century.
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Herve
Herve is a Walloon municipality of Belgium in Province of Liège.
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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
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Insoumise et dévoilée
Insoumise et dévoilée (Unsubmissive and unveiled) is an autobiography by Karima, published in 2008.
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Jacques Drèze
Jacques H. Drèze (born 1929) is a Belgian economist noted for his contributions to economic theory, econometrics, and economic policy as well as for his leadership in the economics profession.
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Jacques Stotzem
Jacques Stotzem (born 1959 in Verviers, Belgium) is an acoustic fingerstyle guitar player.
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Jalhay
Jalhay is a municipality of Belgium.
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January 2015 anti-terrorism operations in Belgium
On 15 January 2015, Belgian police carried out a raid on premises in Verviers, Belgium.
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Jean Haust
Jean Haust (Verviers, 10 February 1868– Liège, 23 November 1946) was a Belgian academic, linguist and philologist.
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Jean Vallée
Jean Vallée (born Paul Goeders in Verviers on 2 October 1941 – 12 March 2014, Clermont-sur-Berwinne) was a Belgian song writer and performer.
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Jean-Jacques Andrien
Jean-Jacques Andrien (born 1 June 1944) is a Belgian film director.
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Jean-Marie Klinkenberg
Jean-Marie Klinkenberg (born 8 October 1944) is a Belgian linguist and semiotician, professor at the State University of Liège, born in Verviers (Belgium) in 1944.
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La Motte-Chalancon
La Motte-Chalancon is a commune in the Drôme department in southeastern France.
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Liège
Liège (Lidje; Luik,; Lüttich) is a major Walloon city and municipality and the capital of the Belgian province of Liège. The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east of Belgium, not far from borders with the Netherlands (Maastricht is about to the north) and with Germany (Aachen is about north-east). At Liège, the Meuse meets the River Ourthe. The city is part of the sillon industriel, the former industrial backbone of Wallonia. It still is the principal economic and cultural centre of the region. The Liège municipality (i.e. the city proper) includes the former communes of Angleur, Bressoux, Chênée, Glain, Grivegnée, Jupille-sur-Meuse, Rocourt, and Wandre. In November 2012, Liège had 198,280 inhabitants. The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of 1,879 km2 (725 sq mi) and had a total population of 749,110 on 1 January 2008. Population of all municipalities in Belgium on 1 January 2008. Retrieved on 2008-10-19. Definitions of metropolitan areas in Belgium. The metropolitan area of Liège is divided into three levels. First, the central agglomeration (agglomeratie) with 480,513 inhabitants (2008-01-01). Adding the closest surroundings (banlieue) gives a total of 641,591. And, including the outer commuter zone (forensenwoonzone) the population is 810,983. Retrieved on 2008-10-19. This includes a total of 52 municipalities, among others, Herstal and Seraing. Liège ranks as the third most populous urban area in Belgium, after Brussels and Antwerp, and the fourth municipality after Antwerp, Ghent and Charleroi.
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Liège (province)
Liège (Lîdje; Luik,; Lüttich) is the easternmost province of Wallonia and Belgium.
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Limbourg
Limbourg or Limbourg-sur-Vesdre (German and Dutch: Limburg) is a city located in the province of Liège, Wallonia, Belgium.
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Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context.
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List of protected heritage sites in Verviers
This table shows an overview of the protected heritage sites in the Walloon town Verviers.
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Luc Sante
Luc Sante (born 25 May 1954, Verviers, Belgium) is a writer and critic.
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Marc Lacroix (biochemist)
Marc Guy Albert Marie Lacroix is a biochemist (educated at University of Liège) and a researcher (born 28 April 1963 in Verviers, Wallonia, Belgium) who specializes in breast cancer biology, metastasis and therapy.
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Marquess
A marquess (marquis) is a nobleman of hereditary rank in various European peerages and in those of some of their former colonies.
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Mathieu Crickboom
Mathieu Crickboom (2 March 1871 – 30 October 1947) was a Belgian violinist, who was born in Verviers (Hodimont) and died in Brussels.
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Maurane
Claudine Luypaerts, better known as Maurane (12 November 1960 – 7 May 2018), was a Belgian singer and actress.
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Mönchengladbach
Mönchengladbach is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Merovingian dynasty
The Merovingians were a Salian Frankish dynasty that ruled the Franks for nearly 300 years in a region known as Francia in Latin, beginning in the middle of the 5th century.
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Mouvement Réformateur
The Reformist Movement (Mouvement Réformateur, MR) is a liberal and conservative-liberal French-speaking political party in Belgium.
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Municipalities of Belgium
Belgium comprises 589 municipalities (gemeenten; communes; Gemeinden) grouped into five provinces in each of two regions and into a third region, the Brussels-Capital Region, comprising 19 municipalities that do not belong to a province.
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Music
Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.
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Neoclassical architecture
Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.
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Nornagest
Régis Lant (aka Nornagest, born 10 June 1977) is a Belgian black metal vocalist and writer, best known for his vocal works with the black metal band Enthroned and Absu's self-titled release.
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Pepinster
Pepinster is a Walloon municipality of Belgium in Province of Liège.
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Philippe Gilbert
Philippe Gilbert (born 5 July 1982) is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team.
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Philippe Maystadt
Philippe M.P.J. Maystadt (14 March 1948 – 7 December 2017) was a Belgian politician who served as Minister for Economic Affairs, Minister of Finance, and Deputy Prime Minister.
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Pierre Rapsat
Pierre Rapsat (born Pierre Raepsaet, 28 May 1948 – 20 April 2002) was a Belgian singer-songwriter who had a very successful career in his homeland and also spells of popularity in other Francophone countries.
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Pope Adrian IV
Pope Adrian IV (Adrianus IV; born Nicholas Breakspear; 1 September 1159), also known as Hadrian IV, was Pope from 4 December 1154 to his death in 1159.
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Prince-Bishopric of Liège
The Prince-Bishopric of Liège was a state of the Holy Roman Empire in the Low Countries, situated for the most part in present Belgium, which was ruled by the Bishop of Liège.
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Provinces of Belgium
The country of Belgium is divided into three regions.
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Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines
Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) was a Rwandan radio station which broadcast from July 8, 1993 to July 31, 1994.
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Raymond Macherot
Raymond Macherot (30 March 1924 – 26 September 2008) was a Belgian cartoonist.
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René Hausman
René Hausman (21 February 1936 – 28 April 2016) was a Belgian comic-book writer and artist, best known for his dark fairytales and watercolour drawings.
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Roger Leloup
Roger Leloup (born 17 November 1933) is a Belgian comic strip artist, novelist, and a former collaborator of Hergé, who would rely upon him to create detailed, realistic drawings and elaborate decoration for The Adventures of Tintin.
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Roubaix
Roubaix is a city in Northern France, located in the Lille metropolitan area.
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Rwandan genocide
The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, was a genocidal mass slaughter of Tutsi in Rwanda by members of the Hutu majority government.
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Salian Franks
The Salian Franks, also called the Salians (Latin: Salii; Greek: Σάλιοι Salioi), were a northwestern subgroup of the earliest Franks who first appear in the historical records in the third century.
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Sillon industriel
The Sillon industriel ("industrial furrow") is the former industrial backbone of Belgium.
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Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.
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Stavelot
Stavelot (Stablo, Ståvleu) is a Walloon municipality in the Belgian province of Liège.
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Steve Houben
Steve Houben (born 19 March 1950 in Liège, Belgium) is a Belgian jazz saxophonist and flutist.
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Theux
Theux is a Walloon municipality of Belgium in Province of Liège.
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Verviers
Verviers (Vervî) is a Walloon city and municipality located in the Belgian province of Liège.
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Vicus
In Ancient Rome, the vicus (plural vici) was a neighborhood or settlement.
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Violetta Villas
Czesława Gospodarek (born Cieślak; 10 June 1938 – 5 December 2011), known by her stage name Violetta Villas, was a Belgian-born Polish and international cabaret star, singer, actress, composer and songwriter.
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Wallonia
Wallonia (Wallonie, Wallonie(n), Wallonië, Walonreye, Wallounien) is a region of Belgium.
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William Cockerill
William Cockerill (1759–1832) was a British entrepreneur who created a textile machine manufacturing business in Verviers and Liège, Belgium (then part of the French First Republic).
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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Yvan Ylieff
Yvan Ylieff (Иван Илиев, Ivan Iliev; born 8 March 1941) is a Belgian politician of the Francophone Socialist Party.
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References
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