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Li\u00e8ge<\/strong>, city, Walloon Region<\/a>, eastern Belgium<\/a>, on the Meuse River<\/a> at its confluence<\/a> with the Ourthe. (The grave accent in Li\u00e8ge was officially approved over the acute<\/a> in 1946.) The site was inhabited in prehistoric times and was known to the Romans as Leodium. A chapel was built there to honor St. Lambert, bishop of Maastricht<\/a>, who was murdered there in 705. Li\u00e8ge became a town when St. Hubert<\/a> transferred his see there in 721.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Li\u00e8ge, Belgium<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under Notger<\/a>, its first prince-bishop, it grew in importance as a center of Li\u00e8ge principality and of the Mosan school<\/a> of art and as a major European intellectual<\/a> center. After it was granted a communal magistracy (1185) and citizens\u2019 charter (1195), and the guilds were granted representation on the city council (1303), there was a struggle for power between the guilds and the nobles. The nobles failed in a sudden attack, and their armed party was burned to death by the populace in the church of Saint-Martin in 1312, an event known as Male Saint-Martin. Political equality was granted to the laborers and to most of the trade guilds in 1313.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the 15th-century, Burgundian domination of the Netherlands, Li\u00e8ge resisted and was sacked twice by Charles the Bold<\/a> (1467, 1468). After Charles\u2019s death (1477) the city was rebuilt and experienced renewed prosperity<\/a> in the 16th century under Prince-Bishop Evrard de La Marck. Renewed strife between the prince-bishops and the citizens resulted in the destruction of democratic institutions in 1684. The city was bombarded by the French in 1691 and taken by the English (1702) during the War of the Spanish Succession<\/a>. A bloodless revolution ended the rule of the nobles in 1789; Li\u00e8ge was annexed to France<\/a> in 1795 and assigned with the rest of Belgium to the Netherlands<\/a> in 1815. Its citizens played an important part in the Belgian Revolution in 1830.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Belgium became independent (1830), the city expanded and became a major industrial center. Fortified in 1891, it became the main bastion<\/a> of the Meuse defenses and was occupied by the Germans in both world wars; it suffered heavy aerial bombardment in World War II<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the commercial hub of the industrial Meuse Valley, Li\u00e8ge developed iron and steel<\/a> foundries, glassworks, coal mines, armament factories, and copper refineries. It became one of the most important river ports in western Europe and among the largest rail centers in Belgium; its airport is in nearby Bierset. The strong working-class character of the city is reflected in the leading role it plays in Belgian socialist politics. The effects of late 20th-century deindustrialization produced many challenges for the city, particularly high unemployment rates, but the economy rebounded somewhat as the city\u2019s service sector<\/a> expanded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cathedral (the former abbey church of Saint-Paul) contains the reliquaries of St. Lambert and Charles the Bold. Among many other Romanesque and Gothic churches in Li\u00e8ge are Saint-Denis, Saint-Jacques, Saint-Martin, Sainte-Croix (containing a gold triptych from 1150), and Saint-Barth\u00e9lemy, with a baptismal font (1108). The palace of the prince-bishops (built in the 15th century and repaired in the 18th and 19th centuries) is now the Palais de Justice<\/a>. Saint-Laurent, an old Benedictine abbey, has been a military hospital since 1796.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As the cultural center of Wallonia (French-speaking Belgium), Li\u00e8ge has concert halls, theaters, an opera, and many fine museums\u2014particularly those of fine arts and of Walloon life, the Ansembourg Museum of decorative art<\/a>, the archaeological museum (in the Maison Curtius, c. 1600), the arms museum, and the house of the composer C\u00e9sar Franck<\/a>. The state university (1817) was entirely rebuilt in the 1960s on a new site to the south. The Royal Conservatory of Music (1887) is famous for the violin school established by Eug\u00e8ne Ys\u00e4ye<\/a>. There are also several national research laboratories and technical schools associated with the major industries of Li\u00e8ge. Pop. (2009 est.) mun., 193,816.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article was most recently revised and updated by Melissa Albert<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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