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14-840: The municipality consists of the following districts : Bleid , Ethe , Latour , Ruette , Saint-Mard , and Virton. Other population centers include: Chenois, Gomery, Grandcourt, and Saint-Remy. [REDACTED] County of Chiny 1183–1364 [REDACTED] Duchy of Luxembourg 1364–1795, part of:     [REDACTED] Burgundian Netherlands 1443–1482     [REDACTED] Habsburg Netherlands 1482–1556     [REDACTED] Spanish Netherlands 1556–1714     [REDACTED] Austrian Netherlands 1714–1794 [REDACTED] French Republic 1795–1804 [REDACTED] French Empire 1804–1815 [REDACTED] Grand Duchy of Luxembourg 1815–1839 [REDACTED]   Kingdom of Belgium 1839–present Several archeological finds indicate that

28-661: Is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France . An airbase built by NATO hosted fighter squadrons from the RCAF from 1952 to 1967. The village lies on the left bank of the Othain , which forms most of the commune's eastern border. Marville was a part of the Duchy of Luxembourg until 1659. It was in this year that the first partition of Luxembourg

42-647: Is a subdivision of a municipality in Belgium and, until March 2014, in the Netherlands as well. Each municipality in Belgium that existed as a separate entity on 1 January 1961 but no longer existed as such after 1 January 1977 as the result of a merger is considered a section or deelgemeente within most municipalities. In addition, the City of Brussels is also divided in four sections that correspond to

56-574: Is the term ancienne commune (former municipality), which has no official existence. A section or deelgemeente does not bear any administrative powers. However, the Belgian Constitution provides the possibility of implementing districts for any municipality with at least 100,000 inhabitants, giving de facto political and administrative jurisdiction to the sections. Only the municipality of Antwerp has implemented nine districts , Belgium's lowest level of administration. In

70-539: The deelgemeentevoorzitter , their own aldermen, deelgemeentewethouders , and their own elected assembly, the deelgemeenteraad . Deelgemeenten were abolished in March 2014, after the 2014 municipal elections . Since 2014, districts of Amsterdam have a bestuurscommissie (literally "governance commission"), and the deelgemeenten of Rotterdam are now called gebieden (literally "areas"). Marville, Meuse Marville ( French pronunciation: [maʁvil] )

84-610: The Counts of Chiny could levy taxes (the tonlieu ) on the various goods sold at the local market, which is attested as early as 1270. In 1441, the Duchy of Luxembourg was sold to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy . 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 (including plague), and economic disasters that ensued. The city fared better under

98-515: The Netherlands, deelgemeenten were administrative divisions that could be instituted by any municipality. The city of Amsterdam was the first to do this. In the early 1980s, the municipality was divided into fifteen deelgemeenten. This amount was decreased to eight in 2010. Seven of these were officially called stadsdeel . Rotterdam followed in the 1990s and was divided into fourteen deelgemeenten . Deelgemeenten had their own mayor,

112-743: The area was already inhabited before the Romans built villas there and named the town Vertunum . In the early 5th century, the Romans had to flee the Germanic invasions. Their settlement was destroyed and rebuilt by the Franks somewhat north of its original site. Virton was mentioned for the first time in Pope Lucius III 's bull of 1183 as a fiefdom of the House of Chiny . As overlords of Virton,

126-695: The base to Lahr , Germany , there were ceremonies in these towns and in Longuyon , France (Permanent Married Quarters), where the Canadians left three small 'thunderbird' totem poles . These totems are still there and were rededicated in September 2005 on the 50th anniversary of the opening of the base. Deelgemeente A deelgemeente ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈdeːlɣəˌmeːntə] , literally sub-municipality ), or section ( French pronunciation: [sɛksjɔ̃] ),

140-506: The communes that existed before their merger in 1921. The term deelgemeente is used in Dutch and the term section in French to refer to such a subdivision of a municipality anywhere in Belgium, municipalities having been merged throughout the country in the 1970s . Herefor, sections or deelgemeenten usually were independent municipalities before the fusions in the 1970s. In French,

154-519: The onset of World War I , hundreds of inhabitants were summarily executed by the invading German army , while mass deportations occurred during World War II . Virton is now the centre of commerce and tourism for the Gaume region. The town became an icon in Israeli sports history after Maccabi Tel Aviv defeated CSKA Moscow 91:79 in a European Basketball Champions' Cup game on 17 February 1977, in

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168-537: The rule of Maria Theresa of Austria in the 18th century, thanks in part to the development of Lorraine 's steel industry. The French Revolution shattered those advances. 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 . On August 22, 1914, at

182-399: The term section is sometimes confused with commune (for: municipality), especially in larger cities like Charleroi and Mons as the sections composing the municipality used to be individual communes before the 1970s. It is therefore not rare to hear that Mons comprises "19 communes " when in fact Mons is a single municipality ( commune ) divided into 19 sections . In addition, there

196-708: The town's sports arena. CSKA hosted the game in Virton due to lack of diplomatic relations between the USSR and Israel at the time. The victory is widely considered as pivotal in Maccabi's history, thus making the town's name widely known among Israeli sports fans. 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 . Prior to moving

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