Around 620, a community of monks founded an abbey atop the hill of the French village of Montfaucon d'Argonne.
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Around 620, a community of monks founded an abbey atop the hill of the French village of Montfaucon d'Argonne.
A stone's throw from the Douamont fortress meanders the Boyau de Londres, a World War I trench.
Railway line 47, the section of the Vennbahn between Sankt Vith and Troisvierges, was commissioned in late 1889 and crossed the Our River via a brick viaduct near the German village of Hemmeres.
The Trench of Death on the Yser Front in Dixmuide is the only preserved Belgian trench complex from the First World War.
In 1954, the Belgian army built a bunker at the foot of the Kemmelberg. The top secret command center would house the army headquarters in the event of a crisis or conflict during the Cold War.
The Stasi prison Hohenschönhausen is hidden in an ordinary neighbourhood in Berlin. From 1951 onwards, the GDR regime interrogated and imprisoned thousands of political prisoners here.
Excavation works of the Ypres-Comines canal started in 1864. The canal would realize a connection between the Yser River and the Leie River. However, landslides at the ridge in Hollebeke soon threw a spanner in the works.
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