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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Mons, Hastiere, Dinant, Soignies, History of Wallonia, Chateau de Seneffe, Villers Abbey, Tournai Cathedral, Castle of Freyr, Orval Abbey, Lifts on the old Canal du Centre, Enghien, Floreffe Abbey, Lion's Mound, Bonne-Esperance Abbey, Prince-Bishops' Palace, Saint-Hubert, Belgium, St Bartholomew's Church, Liege, Chateau de Modave, Spiennes, Montaigle Castle, Chateau de Bel il, Belfry of Tournai, Mosan Renaissance, High Fens, Poilvache Castle, Castle of Corroy-le-Chateau, Ninglinspo, Collegiate Church of Saint Gertrude, Jehay-Bodegnee Castle, Bouillon Castle, St Aubin's Cathedral, Grotte de Spy, Attre Castle, Aulne Abbey, Castle of Veves, Franc-Waret Castle, Citadel of Namur, Curtius Museum, Weris, Fernelmont Castle, Grand Hornu, Le R ulx Castle, Chateau de Lavaux-Sainte-Anne, Sombreffe Castle, Castle of Warfusee, Waleffe Castle. Excerpt: The history of Wallonia, from pre-historic times to the present day, is that of a territory which, since 1970, has approximately coincided with the territory of the Walloon Region, a federated component which includes the smaller German-speaking Community of Belgium (73,000 inhabitants). Wallonia is the name colloquially given to the Walloon Region . The French word Wallonie comes from the term Wallon, itself coming from Walh. Walh is a very old Germanic word used to refer to a speaker of Celtic or Latin. Iguanodon bernissartensis compared in size to a human. Section of mines at SpiennesThe largest find of Iguanodon remains to date occurred in 1878 in a coal mine at Bernissart, at a depth of 322 m (1056 ft). I. bernissartensis, that lived from the Barremian to the early Aptian (Early Cretaceous) in Europe, between about 130 and 120 million years ago. The Grotte de Spy (Spy Cave) is located near Spy in the Walloon municipality of Jemeppe-sur-Sambre, in the province of Namur. It has b...