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The region is typified by steep-sided valleys carved by swift-flowing rivers, the most prominent of which is the Meuse. Its most populous cities are Verviers in Belgium and Charleville-Mézières in France, both exceeding 50,000 inhabitants. The Ardennes is otherwise relatively sparsely populated, with few of the towns exceeding 10,000 inhabitants.
Ardennes (French: ⓘ) is a department in the Grand Est region of northeastern France named after the broader Ardennes. Its prefecture is the town Charleville-Mézières . The department has 270,582 inhabitants. [ 4 ]
The concept of a natural park in the Ardennes region originated in the 1960s. Just two months after the decree establishing regional natural parks was published in March 1967, Christophe Ryelandt, in the Ardennes literary and artistic journal La Grive, proposed the creation of a "natural park of the Ardennes forest", with a particular focus on the northern part of the department and extending ...
The Flemish Ardennes (Dutch: Vlaamse Ardennen) is an informal name given to a hilly region in the south of the province of East Flanders, Belgium. Highest summit is the Hotondberg (151 m). Main characteristics of the region are rural hilly landscapes with hilltop bluebell woodlands (Muziekbos, Brakelbos, Kluisbos), windmills and watermills.
Ardennes and Eifel are mountain ranges in Europe that form part of the same volcanic field and also of the Rhenish Massif. These are mountains and hills composed of slate and limestone , and of an average altitude of 400 to 500 meters, with several summits reaching the 700 meters.
The following is a list of the 447 communes of the Ardennes department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): [1] Communauté d'agglomération Ardenne Métropole; Communauté de communes Ardenne rives de Meuse; Communauté de communes Ardennes Thiérache; Communauté de communes de l'Argonne Ardennaise
Charleville in 1625. Charleville and Mézières were originally separate communities on opposite banks of the Meuse, about 1.2 km (0.75 mi) from one another. [3]Charleville was founded by Charles Gonzaga, the 8th duke of Mantua, in 1606.
Carignan was, under the name Epoissium, Eposium, Epusum or Ivosium, a military settlement of the Romans. Gaugericus, bishop of Cambrai, was born in Eposium around 550.A little later it was the home of a stylite ascetic named Wulflaich.