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The Citadel of Huy (French: Citadelle de Huy) or the Fort of Huy (French: Fort de Huy), known locally as The Castle (Walloon: Li Tchestia), is a fortress located in the Walloon city of Huy in the province of Liège, Belgium. [1] The fort occupies a high position in the town, overlooking the strategic Meuse river.
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Fort van Huy, chaussées Napoléon More images: Old Grain Exchange, today home of Fondation Bolly-Charlier (nl) (fr) Huy place Verte n° 6 61031-CLT-0026-01 Info. Oude graanbeurs, tegenworodig huis van Fondation Bolly-Charlier More images: Town hall (nl) (fr) Huy Huy
Huy, view from the bridge (le Pont du Chemin de Fer) with the fortress (Fort de Huy), two churches (la collégiale Notre-Dame) and (Saint-Domitien) and the Tihange nuclear power plant Huy ( French: [ɥi] ⓘ or [wi] ⓘ ; Dutch : Hoei [ɦui] ; Walloon : Hu ) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège , Belgium .
The County of Huy (Latin comitatus Hoiensis) was a comital jurisdiction of Lotharingia during the early Middle Ages, centred on the town of Huy and its citadel overlooking the Meuse. The county probably originated in the late ninth century as a division of the County of Hesbaye .
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Despite the promises of Prince Maurice of Orange to relieve Huy, the forces of the new Governor-General of the Spanish Netherlands, Don Pedro Henríquez de Acevedo, Count of Fuentes (Spanish: Conde de Fuentes), led by Don Valentín Pardieu de la Motte, after a short siege and low resistance, captured the town and the citadel from the combined Protestant troops of Charles de Héraugière.
A citadel is the most fortified area of a town or city. It may be a castle , fortress , or fortified center. The term is a diminutive of city , meaning "little city", because it is a smaller part of the city of which it is the defensive core.