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Eupen (German: ⓘ, French: ⓘ, Dutch: [ˈøːpə(n)] ⓘ; Ripuarian: Ööpe; Walloon: Neyåw; former French: Néau) is the capital of German-speaking Community of Belgium and is a city and municipality in the Belgian province of Liège, 15 kilometres (9 miles) from the German border (), from the Dutch border and from the "High Fens" nature reserve ().
Belgique Belgien Brussels City 30,689 km 2 (11,849 sq mi) 11,763,650 383/km 2 (990/sq mi) History. ... as well as parts of modern Germany and France, ...
Lier (Dutch: ⓘ; French: Lierre ⓘ) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp.It is composed of the city of Lier proper and the village of Koningshooikt. ...
However, on 1 January 2001 they were given an administrative function again. The merger of Antwerp with the municipalities of Berchem , Borgerhout , Deurne , Hoboken , Ekeren , Merksem and Wilrijk in 1983 finally reduced the number of municipalities in Belgium to 589 and was the last reorganization of the municipalities for several decades ...
It has a surface area of 16,901 km 2 (6,526 sq mi), or 55.1% of Belgium, and is also divided into 5 provinces which contain a total of 262 municipalities. Its capital is Namur . The official languages are French and, only in the nine eastern municipalities that form the German-speaking Community near the German border, German .
It was only in 1651 that the expansion of the fulleries led to Verviers being recognized as one of the prince-bishopric's bonnes villes (main cities). The end of the 18th century was troubled by the French Revolution. The annexation of Liège to France in 1795 caused a steep economic decline and unprecedented poverty.
European route E40 is the longest European route, [1] more than 8,000 kilometres (4,971 miles) long, connecting Calais in France via Belgium, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan, with Ridder in Kazakhstan near the border with Russia and China.
[6] The border remained relatively stable until the annexation of the Three Bishoprics Metz, Toul and Verdun by King Henry II in 1552 and the occupation of the Duchy of Lorraine by the forces of King Louis XIII in 1633. Its lower Belgian portion, part of the sillon industriel, was the first fully industrialized area in continental Europe. [7]