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Virton was mentioned for the first time in Pope Lucius III ’ s bull of 1183 as a fiefdom of the House of Chiny.
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In the end, Maccabi Tel Aviv's " home game " was played in the small, neutral town of Virton, Belgium.
In the end, Maccabi Tel Aviv's " home game " was played in the small, neutral town of Virton, Belgium.
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Virton is the principal town of the small region of Belgian Lorraine known as the Gaume, famous for its microclimate.
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In 1977 helped Maccabi to win its first European Championship, defeating Mobilgirgi Varese 78: 77 in the final held in Pionir Hall, Belgrade and CSKA Moscow 91: 79 in semifinal group game held in Virton, Belgium, an achievement that produced Tal Brody's famous sentence " We are on the map, not only in basketball ".
Virton and Chiny
As overlords of Virton, the Counts of Chiny could raise taxes ( the tonlieu ) on the various goods sold at the local market, which already existed in 1270.
Gaume is composed by these districts: Chiny, Etalle, Florenville, Habay, Meix-devant-Virton, Musson, Rouvroy, Tintigny and Virton, even if some villages in the northern districts are not in Gaume ( as Suxy or Hachy ).
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Bertrix railway station, in the east of the town, has regular train services to Libramont, Dinant and Virton.
On week-days trains run via Virton and Aubange to Arlon.
Virton () is the most southerly town in Belgium and the administrative centre of a Walloon municipality () and district ( arrondissement ) of the same name, located in the Belgian province of Luxembourg.
Virton municipality includes the old communes of Belmont, Bleid, Chenois, Èthe, Gomery, Grandcourt, Latour, Ruette, Saint-Mard, and Saint-Remy.
From that date, Virton, like many other Walloon cities, became embroiled in more than two centuries of wars between France, Spain, and the Netherlands, with all the fighting, famine, epidemics ( plague …), and economic disasters that ensued.
Virton had to wait until the departure of Napoleon in 1815 to see prosperous times again.
Virton enthusiastically participated in the Belgian Revolution and even in the French Revolution of 1848.
Virton is now the commercial and tourist centre of the Gaume region.
* Since 1935, Virton owns two traditional giants who take part in the local festivities.
Virton, Florenville, and many other neighbouring villages were the homes of many Canadian families whose fathers / husbands were stationed nearby at RCAF Station No. 1 ( F ) Wing, in Marville, France.
* Lambert G., Michel J., Petit A., and Vaulet P., " Histoire de Virton: des origines à l ' an 2000 " Ed.
The unofficial capital of the Gaume region is Virton.
Virton is a Belgian football club, from the city of Virton in the Luxembourg province of Belgium.
Virton were to receive the professional football license to know where they would play next season.
There were isolated French successes, notably at Virton by the VI Corps but, by the evening of 23 August the French Third and Fourth Armies were in chaotic retreat, falling back on the line of the Moselle through Sedan, Stenay and Verdun.
* Gomery, village in southern Belgium, in the municipality of Virton, province of Luxembourg and Gaume region, seat of the de Gerlache de Gomery family.
In 2011 he joined Belgium Third Division Team Royal Excelsior Virton as a free agent after his contract at Reims expired.
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