The advent of the high-speed TGV link to Paris has led to renovation of the city's railway station while a new passenger terminal at Luxembourg Airport has recently been opened.

The advent of the high-speed TGV link to Paris has led to renovation of the city's railway station while a new passenger terminal at Luxembourg Airport has recently been opened.

Luxembourg's last tramline closed in 1964 but the city is now planning to reintroduce trams by 2012, initially from the central station to Kirchberg and then to Luxembourg Airport.

Cargolux Airlines International S. A., trading as Cargolux, is a cargo airline with its head office at Luxembourg – Findel Airport in Sandweiler, Luxembourg.

The freighter then flew to Seattle – Tacoma International Airport and picked up cargo before flying to Luxembourg.

Frankfurt-Hahn Airport is almost equidistant from Frankfurt and Luxembourg — the Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof ( Frankfurt main railway station ) being 123 km from the airport and Gare Centrale Luxembourg ( Luxembourg central railway station ) being 118 km from the airport.

Hahn is served by a number of ( mostly ) private bus operators that run regular services to Frankfurt am Main ( 1 h 45 min, via Frankfurt International Airport, Terminal 2 ), Cologne ( 2 h 15 min ), Luxembourg ( 1 h 45 min ) and a number of other cities in western Germany and the region.

Its population is 5, 440 and it is located north-east of Luxembourg City, adjacent to the Luxembourg-Findel International Airport ( which lies in Sandweiler ).

Findel Airport is the main airport in Luxembourg.

Luxair Flight 9642 was a flight from Tempelhof International Airport, Berlin, Germany, to Luxembourg-Findel, Niederanven, Luxembourg, near Luxembourg City.

* The IATA airport code of Luxembourg-Findel International Airport, the main airport of Luxembourg

2010, Hahn Air started to offer flights between Düsseldorf International Airport ( DUS ) and Findel Luxembourg Airport ( LUX ) twice a week.

Hahn Air itself operates flights between Düsseldorf International Airport ( DUS ) and Findel Luxembourg Airport ( LUX ).

EUROCONTROL's Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre ( MUAC ), located at Maastricht Aachen Airport, provides air traffic control for traffic above 24, 500 ft over Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and north-west Germany.

A Romavia BAC One-Eleven | Rombac 111-560 at Luxembourg – Findel Airport ( 2005 ).

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** Luxembourg — no voltage change at the border ( the line Arlon-Luxembourg is at 3 kV DC and the line Gouvy-Luxembourg is at 25 kV AC )

This combination first appeared in 1949, and is ascribed to Gustave Tops, a Belgian barman, who created it at the Hotel Metropole in Brussels in honor of Perle Mesta, then U. S. ambassador to Luxembourg.

In 1947, he claims to have become the first DJ to use twin turntables for continuous play, and in 1958 became a radio DJ at Radio Luxembourg.

Turnout in 2009 stood at 43 % of all European voters, ranging from 90 % in Luxembourg and Belgium ( where compulsory voting is used ) to 20 % in Slovakia.

) Dalglish's final appearance for Scotland, after 15 years as a full international, was on 12 November 1986 at Hampden Park in a Euro 1988 qualifying game against Luxembourg, which Scotland won 3 – 0.

Traces have been found in the south of Luxembourg at Grevenmacher, Diekirch, Aspelt and Weiler-la-Tour.

While there is not much evidence of communities in Luxembourg at the beginning of the Bronze Age, a number of sites dating back to the period between the 13th and the 8th century BC provide evidence of dwellings and reveal artifacts such as pottery, knives and jewelry.

The heirs of the main Luxembourg dynasty were not happy with the arrangement the Burgundians had made, and managed at times to wrest the possession from Burgundy.

Thus, Luxembourg returned to the heirs of the old Luxembourg dynasty – at least those of the line of Elisabeth.

It involved competition between France and Prussia over control of Luxembourg, which had become free of German control when the German Confederation was abolished at the end of the Seven Weeks War in 1866.

World War I affected Luxembourg at a time when the nation-building process was far from complete.

Although in the early years of the 21st century Luxembourg enjoyed one of the highest GNP per capita in the world, this was mainly due to the strength of its financial sector, which gained importance at the end of the 1960s.

The Moselle actually rises in northeast France and flows north through Luxembourg for to join the mighty Rhine at Koblenz, Germany.

The population of Luxembourg as of October 2009 was estimated at 493, 500

* Luxembourg at the OECD

NCO: Those who have completed five years of high school and have served a 4 months as voluntary soldier, will do a 9-month-stage at the Infantry Training Department of the Belgian Army in Arlon, before becoming a sergeant in the Luxembourg army.

More than 5, 000 American soldiers, including U. S. Army General George S. Patton, are buried at the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial near the capital of Luxembourg City, and there are monuments in many towns to American liberators.

To get around this, Schumacher obtained a license in Luxembourg at the age of 12.

The UK brought together several countries ( including some bordering the EEC ) and decided to form the European Free Trade Association in about 1959, soon after the establishment of the 6-nation EEC ( France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands ).

In some countries ( Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland ), there are other editions that lack some features such as Windows Media Player, Windows Media Center and Internet Explorer called names such as " Windows 7 N ."

This Brandenburger claim ultimately produced some results when some districts of Luxembourg were united with Prussia in 1813.

In July 1819 a contemporary from Britain visited Luxembourg: his journal offers some insights.

Luxembourg City is served by 163 buses transporting some 28 million passengers per year ( 2007 ).

CFL, the Luxembourg railway company, operates some 17 bus routes, mainly serving towns and villages not accessible by rail.

The closest city to Trier is the capital of Luxembourg, some 50 km to the southwest.

The border with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is some 15 km distant.

On the basis of that speech, France, Italy, the Benelux countries ( Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg ) together with West Germany signed the Treaty of Paris ( 1951 ) creating the European Coal and Steel Community the following year ; this took over the role of the International Authority for the Ruhr and lifted some restrictions on German industrial productivity.

In some cases, such a see is the only one in a country, such as Luxembourg or Monaco, too small to be divided into several dioceses so as to form an ecclesiastical province.

It includes world famous educational institutions such as the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Académie française, the seat of the French Senate as well as a concentration of some of Paris's most famous monuments such as Saint-Germain Abbey and square, St. Sulpice Church and square, the Pont des Arts or the Jardins du Luxembourg.

Luxembourg ( in some contexts spelled Luxemburg ) may refer to the following:

* Belgium ( German-speaking community and some other territory at the east of the province of Liège ); the larger province of Luxembourg had left the Confederation at its accession to Belgium in 1839

In a bold envelopment the Duc de Luxembourg, commanding Louis XIV ’ s army of some 35, 000 men, soundly defeated Prince Waldeck ’ s Allied force of approximately 38, 000 men comprising mainly Dutch, German, and Spanish troops.

For some 1. 8 km the N4 Brussels to Arlon road, which passes through the village, forms the border with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

The judiciary and some of the executive's work are located in Luxembourg and other bodies and agencies in other cities.

An exhibition, Statues de chair: sculptures de James Pradier ( 1790 – 1852 ) at Geneva's Musée d ' Art et d ' Histoire ( October 1985 – February 1986 ) and Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, ( February – May 1986 ) roused some interest in Pradier's career and aesthetic.

Boufflers invested Mons on 15 March with some 46, 000 men, while Luxembourg commanded a similar force of observation.

Green became a household name in 1955, with the ITV quiz show Double Your Money ( which had actually originated some years earlier on Radio Luxembourg ).

He also had cowritten for popular French-American singer Joe Dassin, contributing some of his most famous songs, including " L ' été indien " (" Africa "), " Et si tu n ' existais pas " and " Le Jardin du Luxembourg " ( written with Vito Pallavicini ).

In some countries, like Belgium and Luxembourg, there is strong tradition of " demonym-like nicknames ", called blason populaire in French.

On July 1, 1996, all of the German states ( Bundesländer ), and the countries of Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein, as well as some other countries with German-speaking minorities ( but notably not Luxembourg ) agreed to introduce the new spelling by August 1, 1998.