Diets-Heur
Encyclopedia
Diets-Heur is a village and deelgemeente
of Tongeren in the province
of Limburg
, Flemish region
, Belgium
.
It is a small, rural village with a population of approximately 200 people.
Diets-Heur means Dutch-Heur in old Dutch
and differentiates the village from Heure-le-Romain (Romance or French Heur) 15 kilometers away in Wallonia.
Deelgemeente
A deelgemeente is a subdivision of a gemeente in Belgium and the Netherlands.-Belgium:...
of Tongeren in the province
Provinces of Belgium
Belgium is divided into three regions, two of them are subdivided into five provinces each.The division into provinces is fixed by Article 5 of the Belgian Constitution...
of Limburg
Limburg (Belgium)
Limburg is the easternmost province of modern Flanders, which is one of the three main political and cultural sub-divisions of modern Belgium. It is located west of the river Meuse . It borders on the Dutch provinces of North Brabant and Limburg and the Belgian provinces of Liège, Flemish Brabant...
, Flemish region
Flanders
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, Belgium
Belgium
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It is a small, rural village with a population of approximately 200 people.
Diets-Heur means Dutch-Heur in old Dutch
Old Dutch
In linguistics, Old Dutch denotes the forms of West Franconian spoken and written in the Netherlands and present-day northern Belgium during the Early Middle Ages. It is regarded as the primary stage in the development of a separate Dutch language...
and differentiates the village from Heure-le-Romain (Romance or French Heur) 15 kilometers away in Wallonia.