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Visé - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 50°44′N 05°42′E / 50.733°N 5.700°E

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Visé Vizé (Walloon) Wezet (Dutch)
Municipality

Flag Coat of arms
Location of Visé
Visé Location in Belgium Location of Visé in Liège province
Coordinates: 50°44′N 05°42′E / 50.733°N 5.700°E / 50.733; 5.700
Country	Belgium
Community	French Community
Region	Wallonia
Province	Liège
Arrondissement	Liège
Government
• Mayor	Viviane Dessart (MR)
• Governing party/ies	MR - PS
Area
• Total	27.73 km² (10.71 sq mi)
Population (2018-01-01)^[1]
• Total	17,767
• Density	640/km² (1,700/sq mi)
Postal codes	4600-4602
NIS code	62108
Area codes	04
Website	www.vise.be

Visé (French pronunciation: [vize] ^ⓘ; Dutch: Wezet, Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋeːzɛt]; Walloon: Vizé) is a city and municipality of Wallonia, located on the river Meuse in the province of Liège, Belgium.

The municipality consists of the following districts: Argenteau, Cheratte, Lanaye, Lixhe, Richelle, and Visé.

In the north-east (on the eastern bank of the Meuse) the area of the municipality extends up to the village of Moelingen in the Limburgian municipality of Voeren, while in the north-west (on the western bank of the Meuse) it extends up to the border between Belgium and the Netherlands (on the other side of which the Dutch municipality of Maastricht is situated).

The city of Visé is located in a distance of some 20 km (12,4 miles) north eastern of Belgian Liège city and of some 15 km (9,3 miles) southern of the most southern Dutch city of Maastricht.

In addition to the Meuse, the Albert Canal also passes through this town.

History

The Germans entered Belgium on 4 August 1914, and entered Visé that day as part of the opening movements of the Battle of Liège. A small group of Belgian gendarmes opposed the advancing Germans and two of their number, Auguste Bouko and Jean-Pierre Thill, were killed in the action becoming the first Belgian casualties of World War I.^[2] On 7 August, in the Lixhe section of the town, the German 90th Infantry Regiment killed eleven civilians and destroyed eleven houses. By 17 August 1914, forty-two civilians were killed, and 586 out of the village's 840 houses had been destroyed.^[3]

The Lixhe part of the town was also the site of one of Belgium's ninety eastern-frontier advanced-warning posts (postes d'alerte de la frontière est), aimed at preventing a German invasion in 1939 – its number was "PA 0". ^{[citation needed]} The coal mine of Hasard de Cheratte was dug in Cheratte and exploited between 1850 and 1977.

Gallery

Visé town hall
City view from the west bank of the Meuse
Cultural centre in Visé
Church (Église Saint Martin) in Visé
Saroléa castle at Cheratte
Cheratte-Hauteurs: watertower
View to the Lanaye from Eijsden
Albert Canal at Lanaye

References

^ "Wettelijke Bevolking per gemeente op 1 januari 2018". Statbel. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
^ Poelmans, Marc. "Les gendarmes Auguste Bouko et Jean-Pierre Thill, premiers héros belges de 1914". Arquebusiers. Archived from the original on 30 August 2018. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
^ Tixhon, Axel (2014). Villes martyres. Namur, Belgium: Presses Universitaires de Namur. p. 64. ISBN 978-2-87037-848-9.

External links

Media related to Visé at Wikimedia Commons

Places adjacent to Visé

Riemst (VLI)

Maastricht (NL-LI)

Eijsden-Margraten (NL-LI)

Bassenge
Oupeye

Visé

Voeren (VLI)
Dalhem

Liège

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Huy	Amay Anthisnes Burdinne Clavier Engis Ferrières Hamoir Héron Huy Marchin Modave Nandrin Ouffet Tinlot Verlaine Villers-le-Bouillet Wanze
Liège	Ans Awans Aywaille Bassenge Beyne-Heusay Blegny Chaudfontaine Comblain-au-Pont Dalhem Esneux Flémalle Fléron Grâce-Hollogne Herstal Juprelle Liège Neupré Oupeye Saint-Nicolas Seraing Soumagne Sprimont Trooz Visé
Verviers	Amel Aubel Baelen Büllingen Burg-Reuland Bütgenbach Dison Eupen Herve Jalhay Kelmis Lierneux Limbourg Lontzen Malmedy Olne Pepinster Plombières Raeren Sankt Vith Spa Stavelot Stoumont Theux Thimister-Clermont Trois-Ponts Verviers Waimes Welkenraedt
Waremme	Berloz Braives Crisnée Donceel Faimes Fexhe-le-Haut-Clocher Geer Hannut Lincent Oreye Remicourt Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse Waremme Wasseiges
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