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Liberchies (Walloon: Luberciye) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Pont-à-Celles, [1] located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. It is situated along the previous Roman highway Bavay - Tongeren where a vicus was discovered.
Liberchies is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Pont-à-Celles, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. It is situated along the previous Roman highway Bavay - Tongeren where a vicus was discovered.
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Geminiacum ("the tax district of Geminus") was one of the settlements along the road, fifty-one kilometers east of Bagacum, near a bridge over a stream that is now called Monplaisir. The houses of Geminiacum were remarkably large and deep, built directly on the road, without a sidewalk or porch. There was a bathhouse, but the building next door was...
In c.256 CE the Franks broke through and destroyed northern Gaul. Geminiacum also suffered in these years. However, in 260, general Postumus put things in order and founded a “Gallic Empire”. Unlike the emperors in the old empire, the Gallic rulers chose a double line of defense. Behind the Rhine limes they built a second series of reinforcements a...
In the fourth century, general Julian allowed the Franks and Chamavito settle in the area between the two lines of defense. There, the immigrants lived on sandy soil; the fertile loess remained Roman. This is explains the course of the Language Border in modern Belgium: Frankish/Dutch on the sandy soils north of the Chaussée Brunehaut, Latin/French...
This place is situated in Hainaut, Wallonne, Belgium, its geographical coordinates are 50° 30' 0" North, 4° 25' 0" East and its original name (with diacritics) is Liberchies. See Liberchies photos and images from satellite below, explore the aerial photographs of Liberchies in Belgium.
Liberchies is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Pont-à-Celles, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
Liberchies is located in the region of Wallonia. Wallonia's capital Namur (Namur) is approximately 32 km / 20 mi away from Liberchies (as the crow flies). The distance from Liberchies to Belgium's capital Brussels (Brussels) is approximately 38 km / 23 mi (as the crow flies).
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Located on the Place de Liberchies, the building of the Pont-à-Celles Cultural Centre allows the development of many activities within it as well as in the open air on its vast car park.
