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Lier, Belgium

Lier is a city in the province of Antwerp, Belgium, where the Grote and Kleine Nete rivers meet. A cloth-making town of the Duchy of Brabant in the Middle Ages, it was where Philip the Handsome married Joanna of Castile in 1496. Its sights include the Gothic church of St Gummarus and the Zimmer Tower with its astronomical clock.

Lier, Belgium
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Lier, Belgium. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/lier-belgium
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