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Liège (city)
Industrial city, capital of Liège province in eastern Belgium, southeast of Brussels, almost bisected by the River Meuse, and bounded on the east side by Germany; population (2006 est) 187,100. It is one of the largest river ports in Europe. Weapons, textiles, paper, and chemicals are manufactured here. The city has a university, founded in 1817, and several ancient churches; the oldest, St Martin's, dates from 692.
In the Battle of Liège, the city was heavily defended against German siege at the outbreak of World War I, but eventually fell after intensive artillery bombardment from Big Bertha guns and remained in German hands until the end of the war.
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