Chiny

Chiny is a city and municipality of Wallonia in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium. On 1 January 2018 the municipality covered 113.69 square kilometres and had 5,175 inhabitants. It is made up of the districts of Chiny, Izel, Jamoigne, Les Bulles, Suxy and Termes, and lies on the boundary between the geographical regions of the Gaume and the Ardennes. The name also belongs to a former county much larger than the present municipality, ruled by two dynasties of counts from 980 until the later Middle Ages. The first count, Arnoul of Burgundy-Granson, took the title in 980, and the Chateau de Chiny stood on a rocky spur above the river Semois. The counts also had links with the nearby abbey of Orval and with the shrine at Saint-Thibault in Suxy.