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Herstal
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Herstal (; ), formerly known as Heristal, or Héristal (), is a municipality and city of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. It lies along the Meuse river. Herstal is included in the "Greater Liège" agglomeration, which counts about 600,000 inhabitants.
Key facts
- Belgium municipality.flag
- Flag of Herstal.svg
- Belgium municipality.province
- Liège
- Belgium municipality.name
- Herstal
- Belgium municipality.type
- city
- Belgium municipality.picture
- Vue Herstal.jpg
- Belgium municipality.picture legend
- View from the heights of Herstal
- Belgium municipality.map
- Herstal Liège Belgium Map.svg
- Belgium municipality.arrondissement
- Liège
- Belgium municipality.map legend
- Location of Herstal in Liège province
- Belgium municipality.arms
- Blason Herstal.svg
- Belgium municipality.nis
- 62051
- Belgium municipality.mayor
- Frédéric Daerden (PS)
- Belgium municipality.majority
- PS-H
- Belgium municipality.postal codes
- 4040-4042
- Belgium municipality.telephone area
- 04
- Belgium municipality.web
- www.herstal.be
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Belgian municipality with the title of city
- Country
- Belgium
- Located in
- Arrondissement of Liège
- Official language
- French
- Population
- 39958
- Area
- 23.54
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Head of government
- Frédéric Daerden
- Shares border with
- Oupeye
- Official website
- www.herstal.be
- Image
- Herstal - casa de la vila.jpg
- Dialing code
- 04
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- Commons category
- Herstal
- topic's main category
- Category:Herstal
- twinned administrative body
- Mieres
- postal code
- 4041
- annual number of weddings
- 112
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Herstal
- P8168
- Žulová
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +32-4-256-80-00
- contains settlement
- Liers
- P13200
- Cambridge
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Merovingian and Carolingian golden age
- Late Middle Ages and modern era
- Politics
- Sites
- Notable people
- Twin cities
- See also
- References
- External links
Herstal (; ), formerly known as Heristal, or Héristal (), is a municipality and city of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. It lies along the Meuse river. Herstal is included in the "Greater Liège" agglomeration, which counts about 600,000 inhabitants.
The municipality consists of the following districts: Herstal, Liers, Milmort, and Vottem.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Herstal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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