Liège, a town in Belgium and capital of the Walloons, in a very picturesque region at the confluence of the Ourthe with the Meuse, the busiest town in Belgium and a chief seat of the woollen manufacture; it is divided in two by the Meuse, which is spanned by 17 bridges; it is the centre of a great mining district, and besides woollens has manufactures of machinery, and steel and iron goods.
Population (circa 1900) given as 160,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Liebig, Baron von * Liegnitz