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Liege and the new train station
Liege
(
lee-
EZH
, lee-
AYZH
,
[2]
[3]
[4]
French:
[lj??]
(
listen
)
,
locally
[li.eː?]
;
Walloon
:
Lidje
[liːt?]
;
Dutch
:
Luik
[lœyk]
(
listen
)
;
German
:
Luttich
[?l?t?c]
;
Latin
:
Leodium
) is a
city
in
Belgium
. It is the
cultural
centre of the
Walloon
region
of Belgium and the
capital
of the province of
Liege
. Liege is also seat of a
Roman Catholic
bishop
. In 2007, 188,907 people lived there.
[5]
It is at 50° 38 North, 05° 34 East.
[6]
The first written trace of the city was found in 558 as
Leodicum
or
Vicus Leodicus
. From 717, Liege was made the seat of a bishopric and became a cultural centre in the
Middle Ages
. These bishops ruled the city as
Prince-Bishops
until the 1790s. In the
French Revolution
, the
cathedral
was damaged, partially burned down and then completely detroyed. In the
19th century
, the city lived on
coal
-
mining
,
steel
industry
and
trade
. The region was the second biggest economic center in Europe after the UK in the 19th century.
Today Liege is a major educational hub, with a
university
and many high schools. It is a crossing point in
Europe
, Liege has the second biggest inner
harbour
and the 8th biggest cargo airport in Europe (
Liege Airport
). The city, that had a lot of
problems
since the 1970s because of the end of the steel industry and coal-mining, is now having a good economy thanks to the logistics and high tech industry (biotechnology, space industry, IT).
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