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Engis ( Walloon Indji ) is a Belgian municipality in the Walloon Region. The place is located in the Belgian province of Liège Huy arrondissement. Engis has 5809 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2012) and an area of 27.74 km ².
Location
The village lies in the valley of the Meuse (French Meuse) at an altitude of about 70 meters above sea level. Liege is approximately 13 kilometers (km ) northeast, Namur and Brussels 40 km southwest 76 km northwest (all figures in a straight line from the city center ).
The nearest motorway exit is located 5 km northwest at the neighboring village of Saint -Georges- sur -Meuse in the Belgian motorway A15. Engis itself has a regional railway station on the line Charleroi- Namur -Liège Engis. In Liège is the nearest train station, stopped in the fast trains (including the Thalys Paris -Brussels- Cologne). Close to the major city of Liege is the nearest regional airport; in Brussels, the nearest airport of international importance.
Historical
In a cave at Engis 1829 by Philippe -Charles Schmerling ( 1790-1836 ) were recovered the first fossil remains of those prehistoric people form scientifically described, which later became known as Neanderthal ( the fossil Engis 2). Although Schmerling based also discovered by him stone tools and fossil animal bones correctly concluded on the same high age of all findings and no evidence of artificial earth movements took place, the human -like fossils were "modern" in his lifetime by the vast majority of scientists as and their spatial proximity to the other finds ' misunderstood as a result of burial.
Personalities
- Jean -Pierre Dardenne ( born 1951 ), film director and screenwriter