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The Mur de Huy (English: Wall of Huy) is a 128 metres (420 ft) high hill located in Huy, Wallonia, Belgium. It is also known as le Chemin des Chapelles (English: The Path of the Chapels) because of the seven chapels along its route. This climb is famous for being part of the route of La Flèche Wallonne professional cycling race.
The Citadel of Huy (French: Citadelle de Huy) or the Fort of Huy (French: Fort de Huy), known locally as The Castle (Walloon: Li Tchestia), is a fortress located in the Walloon city of Huy in the province of Liège, Belgium. [1] The fort occupies a high position in the town, overlooking the strategic Meuse river.
Huy, view from the bridge (le Pont du Chemin de Fer) with the fortress (Fort de Huy), two churches (la collégiale Notre-Dame) and (Saint-Domitien) and the Tihange nuclear power plant Huy ( French: [ɥi] ⓘ or [wi] ⓘ ; Dutch : Hoei [ɦui] ; Walloon : Hu ) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège , Belgium .
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He was replaced as advocate in 965, but possibly as count of Huy as early as 964, when a certain Folcuin is first mentioned in documents, although he was not certainly count of Huy before 975. The relationships between the counts of Huy and how the countship may have been passed along by hereditary right have been studied by Donald C. Jackman. [6]
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Despite the promises of Prince Maurice of Orange to relieve Huy, the forces of the new Governor-General of the Spanish Netherlands, Don Pedro Henríquez de Acevedo, Count of Fuentes (Spanish: Conde de Fuentes), led by Don Valentín Pardieu de la Motte, after a short siege and low resistance, captured the town and the citadel from the combined Protestant troops of Charles de Héraugière.
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