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Eupen

Eupen
Municipality
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Flag of Eupen
Flag
Coat of arms of Eupen
Coat of arms
Eupen is located in Belgium
Eupen
Eupen
Location in Belgium
Coordinates: 50°38′N 06°02′E / 50.633°N 6.033°E / 50.633; 6.033Coordinates: 50°38′N 06°02′E / 50.633°N 6.033°E / 50.633; 6.033
Country Belgium
Community German-speaking Community
Region Wallonia
Province Liège
Arrondissement Verviers
Government
 • Mayor Karl-Heinz Klinkenberg (Party for Freedom and Progress (PFF)
 • Governing party/ies Party for Freedom and Progress (PFF), Ecolo, SPplus!
Area
 • Total 103.74 km2 (40.05 sq mi)
Population (1 January 2016)
 • Total 19,338
 • Density 190/km2 (480/sq mi)
Postal codes 4700, 4701
Area codes 087
Website www.eupen.be

Eupen (German (pronounced [ˈʔɔʏpn̩]) and French (pronounced: [øpɛn]), previously known as Néau in French) is a city and municipality in the Belgian province of Liège, 15 kilometres (9 miles) from the German border (Aachen), from the Dutch border (Maastricht) and from the "High Fens" nature reserve (Ardennes). The town is also the capital of the Euroregion Meuse-Rhine.

First mentioned in 1213 as belonging to the Duchy of Limburg, possession of Eupen passed to Brabant, Burgundy, the Holy Roman Empire and France before being given in 1815 to Prussia, which joined the German Empire in 1870. In 1919, after the First World War, the Treaty of Versailles transferred Eupen and the nearby municipality of Malmedy from Germany to Belgium.


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