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Steelmaking along the Meuse at Ougrée, near Liège. The sillon industriel was the first fully industrialized area in continental Europe, [2] experiencing its first industrialisation wave from 1800 to 1820. [3] Its industry brought much wealth to Belgium, and it was the economic core of the country.
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.
Standard Liège supporters share a fierce rivalry with RSC Anderlecht, dubbed the Belgian "Clasico". [15] The rivalry not only reflects the traditional geographical one between the two cities of Liège and Brussels , but also a class divide, with Anderlecht being perceived as the team of the bourgeois elite and Standard, based in an industrial ...
The 2024–25 season is the 127th season in the history of Standard Liège, and the club's 65th consecutive season in Belgian Pro League. In addition to the domestic league, the team is scheduled to participate in the Belgian Cup .
RFC Liège Club, the first Belgian Champion in 1896. Alfred Wahl, La balle au pied : Histoire du football (p. 53), "Découvertes Gallimard" collection (vol. 83).. The city of Liège was introduced to football at the end of the 19th century by English workers, and the Parc de la Boverie, which housed a velodrome, quickly became the home for the first football players in the region. [1]
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.
Namur is an important commercial and industrial centre, located on the Walloon industrial backbone, the Sambre and Meuse valley. It produces machinery, leather goods, metals and porcelain. [ 6 ] Its railway station is also an important junction situated on the north–south line between Brussels and Luxembourg City , and the east–west line ...
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.