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The Meuse rises in Pouilly-en-Bassigny, commune of Le Châtelet-sur-Meuse on the Langres plateau in France from where it flows northwards past Sedan (the head of navigation) and Charleville-Mézières into Belgium. [13] At Namur it is joined by the Sambre. Beyond Namur the Meuse winds eastwards and passes Liège before turning north.
The strip is also known as the Sambre and Meuse valley, as those are the main rivers, or the Haine-Sambre-Meuse-Vesdre valley, which includes two smaller rivers. (French: sillon Sambre-et-Meuse or sillon Haine-Sambre-Meuse-Vesdre). It is also called the Dorsale wallonne, meaning "Walloon [industrial] backbone".
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 33 km (20.5 mi) to the north) and with Germany (Aachen is about 53 km (32.9 mi) north-east). In Liège, the Meuse meets the river Ourthe.
Dinant is positioned in the Upper Meuse valley, at a point where the river cuts deeply into the western Condroz plateau.Sited in a steep-sided valley, between the rock face and the river, the original settlement had little space in which to grow away from the river, and it therefore expanded into a long, thin town, on a north–south axis, along the river shore.
Ardennes is part of the Ardennes, a plateau deeply cut by the Meuse and its many tributaries which reach into Wallonia in Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany , and the north of the neighbouring department of Meuse. Covering 5,229 square kilometres (2,019 square miles), the department was the smallest among the four contributors to Champagne-Ardenne ...
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Chokier and its dominating château seen from the Meuse Château de Chokier. Chokier (Walloon: Tchôkire) is a village of Wallonia in the municipality of Flémalle, district of Flémalle-Haute, located in the province of Liège, Belgium. It is located on the left bank of the river Meuse.
The Vesdre flows into the Ourthe a few kilometres from Liège where the Ourthe in turn flows into the river Meuse. The water of the Vesdre has a high acidity (due to the Hautes Fagnes bogs ), which made it very suitable for the textiles industry around Verviers.