Hollogne-aux-Pierres

Hollogne-aux-Pierres ( wa, Hologne-ås-Pires) is a village of

Wallonia Wallonia (; french: Wallonie ), or ; nl, Wallonië ; wa, Waloneye or officially the Walloon Region (french: link=no, Région wallonne),; nl, link=no, Waals gewest; wa, link=no, Redjon walone is one of the three regions of Belgium—alo ...

and a district of the municipality of Grâce-Hollogne, located in the

province of Liège A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outs ...

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. It was a municipality of its own before its fusion with Grâce-Berleur on July 10th 1970. It is in this area that the police, on 30 July 1950, opened fire on the inhabitants of Grâce-Berleur, killing four people. This sad event is the tragic element which led to the end of the Royal Question. Former municipalities of Liège Province Grâce-Hollogne {{Liege-geo-stub