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Liège

Liège Liège is a city in Belgium, the capital of the province of Liège, lying along the river Meuse, but the origins of the city were along a much smaller nearby river, the Legia, which created a lot of sedimentation where it ended in the Meuse. Around the year 700 a bishop now called Saint Lambert was killed because of a feud between neighboring Merovingien clans. On the murder site, miracles began to happen. Soon pilgrimages were being made there, and a real city sprang up. Though officially…

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