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The Luxembourg Sandstone (French: Grès de Luxembourg) is a geologic formation in Luxembourg. It exists along the eastern margin of the Paris Basin. Sandstone units continuous with the Luxembourg Sandstone also occur in France. It is Early Jurassic in age. It predominantly outcrops in a belt extending through south-central Luxembourg.
Lower Jurassic sandstone of the Grès de Luxembourg Formation near Waldhof. The geology of Luxembourg is divided into two geologic regions: Rheinisches Schiefergeblige in the north, extending into the Ardennes region in Belgium, and the Oesling (also known as Islek) Zone to the north of Ettelbruck.
The history of Luxembourg properly began with the construction of Luxembourg Castle in the High Middle Ages. It was Siegfried I , count of Ardennes who traded some of his ancestral lands with the monks of the Abbey of St. Maximin in Trier in 963 for an ancient, supposedly Roman, fort named Lucilinburhuc , commonly translated as "little castle ...
The history of nature from the Big Bang to the present day with notable events annotated. Every billion years (Ga) is represented by 90 degrees of rotation of the spiral. The last 500 million years are represented in a 90-degree stretch for more detail on our recent history.
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This is a timeline of Luxembourgish history.Each article deals with events in Luxembourg in a given year.. 1800s: 1800 - 1801 - 1802 - 1803 - 1804 - 1805 - 1806 ...
City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and Fortifications: Luxembourg City: 1994 699; iv (cultural) The city developed around a fortress built in the 10th century on an almost inaccessible rock. Due to its strategic location, it passed among great European powers several times, with the fortifications being constantly upgraded.