Huy

Huy is a city and municipality in the province of Liège in Wallonia, Belgium, known in Dutch as Hoei and in Walloon as Hu. It lies on the river Meuse at the mouth of the small river Hoyoux, in the sillon industriel, the former industrial backbone of Wallonia. The municipality is made up of four districts: Ben-Ahin, Huy itself, Neuville-sous-Huy and Tihange. The first village grew up around a Roman fortress on the right bank of the Meuse, the settlement was evangelized by Saint Domitian in the sixth century, and the town appears for the first time in a seventh-century testament under the name Hoius vicus, taken from the Hoyoux. In the tenth century it became a county but soon passed into the Prince-Bishopric of Liège. In 1066 it received what is described as the first historically known charter north of the Alps, confirming it as a city. The Tihange nuclear power station was built nearby in 1970. The citypopulation.de table for the province of Liège gives an estimate of 21,913 residents for 1 January 2026.