Charleroi meaning

shärlə-roi, shär-lə-rwä
A city of south-central Belgium south of Brussels. It was founded in 1666 and is now a commercial center and rail junction.
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(place) City in SW Belgium, in Hainaut.
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The largest city of Wallonia, in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
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Origin of charleroi

Charleroi Sentence Examples

  • After the outbreak of war with the French republic in 1793, he distinguished himself in the struggle against the revolutionary army under Dumouriez by the capture of Landrecies and the relief of Charleroi.

  • Charleroi was settled in 1890 and was incorporated in 1891.

  • The French army under Louis in person started from Charleroi and marched down the Meuse unopposed.

  • A war of manoeuvre on the middle Rhine ended in favour of the French, and the allies then turned against the territories of Cologne and Munster, while William, disappointed in his hopes of joining forces with his friends, made a bold, but in the end unsuccessful, raid on Charleroi (September-December 1672).

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