HERSTAL, or HERISTAL

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HERSTAL, or HERISTAL , a town of Belgium, less than 2 M. N. of Liege and practically one of its suburbs. The name is supposed to be derived from Heerstelle, i.e. " Permanent Camp." The second Pippin was born here, and this

mayor

MAYOR (Lat. major, greater)
MAYOR, JOHN EYTON
BICKERSTETH
- BICKERSTETH, EDWARD (1786—185o)
(1825– )

of the palace acquired the

control

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a
counter
- COUNTER
roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in
English
- ENGLISH
of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

of the kingdom of the

Franks

FRANKS
FRANKS, SIR AUGUSTUS WOLLASTON (1826-1897)

. His grand-son, Pippin the Short, died at Herstal in A.D. 768, and it disputes with Aix la Chapelle the honour of being the birthplace of Charlemagne. It is now a very active centre of

iron

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

and steel manufactures. The Belgian

national

NATIONAL

small arms factory and

cannon

CANNON (a word common to Romance languages, from the Lat. canna, a reed, tube, with the addition of the augmentative termination -on, -one)

foundry are fixed here. Pop. (1904) 20,114.

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