
Angleur (; ) is a
sub-municipality
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Belgium
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of the
city
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of
Liège
Liège ( ; ; ; ; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the Liège Province, province of Liège, Belgium. The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east o ...
located in the
province of Liège,
Wallonia
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,
Belgium
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. It was a separate
municipality
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The term ''municipality' ...
until 1977. On 1 January 1977, it was
merged
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into Liège.
It is located at the foot and on the slope of a hill in the southern part of
Liège
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, located between the rivers
Ourthe
The Ourthe (; Walloon: ''Aiwe d' Oûte'') is a long river in the Ardennes in Wallonia, Belgium.
River
It is a right tributary to the river Meuse. The Ourthe is formed at the confluence of the ''Ourthe Occidentale'' (Western Ourthe) and the '' ...
and
Meuse
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History
From 1301, the upper ...
. The lower part involves an area known as ''Renory'' and a railway station called ''Gare d'Angleur'' and the higher part is located around the
roundabout
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of ''Sart Tilman'' where the
Liège Science Park is located. Two
mansions
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can be found in the lower part of Angleur : the ''Chateau Péralta'' and the ''Chateau Nagelmackers''
On the 24th of July 2019, during the
July 2019 European heat wave, the hottest temperate ever recorded in Belgium at the time was recorded in Angleur, a temperature of 40.2 °C, however this recorded was again broken the next day in the Flemish town of
Begijnendijk.
References
Sub-municipalities of Liège
Former municipalities of Liège Province
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