Chiny
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Chiny: St Nicholas's bridge on the River Semois
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Location of Chiny in Luxembourg province
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| Coordinates: 49°44.3′N 05°20.6′E / 49.7383°N 5.3433°ECoordinates: 49°44.3′N 05°20.6′E / 49.7383°N 5.3433°E | ||
| Country | Belgium | |
| Community | French Community | |
| Region | Wallonia | |
| Province | Luxembourg | |
| Arrondissement | Virton | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Sébastian Pirlot (Député) | |
| • Governing party/ies | Député | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 113.69 km2 (43.90 sq mi) | |
| Population (1 January 2016) | ||
| • Total | 5,233 | |
| • Density | 46/km2 (120/sq mi) | |
| Postal codes | 6810-6813 | |
| Area codes | 061 | |
| Website | www.chiny.be | |
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Chiny is a Walloon municipality of Belgium located in the province of Luxembourg. On 1 January 2007 the municipality, which covers 113.69 km2 (43.90 sq mi), had 5,021 inhabitants, giving a population density of 44.2 inhabitants per km².
The name Chiny also refers historically to a former county, larger than the current municipality.
Chiny is located on the boundary between the geographical regions of the Gaume and the Ardennes.
The municipality consists of the following sub-municipalities: Chiny proper, Izel, Jamoigne, Les Bulles, Suxy, and Termes. Other population centers include:
The French blazon reads: D’azur à trois poissons d’argent posés en fasce et surmontés d’une couronne d’or.
The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Azure three fish fesswise in pale argent and in chief a crown Or.
The first dynasty ruled from 980 to 1384.
From 980, Arnoul of Burgundy-Granson, a descendant of Charlemagne, became the first Count of Chiny. By his marriage to Mathilde, daughter of Ricuin, Duke of Mosellane and Count of Ardennes, he acquired the dowry of his wife, a land of forests rich with game, crossed by a capricious river, the Semois. His son Othon of Warcq, left his small fortress on the Meuse to site the Château de Chiny on a rocky spur overlooking the river. In the eleventh century, the Château was a formidable barrier in the region. The area that was ruled by the count was huge: 246 towns, 57 castles, 1412 villages.
The fourth Count, Louis II, loved hunting parties and held them in his huge game park starting in 1040. It was then that the legend relates that a young lord named Thibault, a descendant of the Counts of Champagne, secretly left his father's house to offer his services in the Ardennes forest near Chiny, where he established a hermitage and found a source of holy springs. Louis II built a large shrine to the spring's healing powers. The shrine became famous, with many pilgrims who came to implore the grace of Saint-Thibault. Later, monks from Calabria, Italy, founded a Monastery nearby at Orval.
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