Jemeppe-sur-Sambre
Jemeppe-sur-Sambre is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Namur, Belgium. On 1 January 2006, the municipality had 17,990 inhabitants.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: LHOON, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Spy Cave and Jemeppe-sur-Sambre railway station.
Spy Cave
Cave
Photo: Krocat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Spy Cave is located in Wallonia near Spy in the municipality of Jemeppe-sur-Sambre, Namur Province, Belgium above the left bank of the Orneau River. Classified as a premier Heritage site of the Walloon Region, the location ranks among the most significant paleolithic sites in Europe.
Auvelais railway station
Railway station
Photo: Didier Misson, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Auvelais railway station is situated 3 km southwest of Jemeppe-sur-Sambre.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Moustier-sur-Sambre and Ham-sur-Sambre.
Spy
Village
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0.
Spy is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Jemeppe-sur-Sambre, located in the province of Namur, Belgium. Here in 1886, in the Grotte de Spy or the Betche aux Roches cavern, Maximin Lohest and Marcel de Puydt found two nearly perfect Neanderthal skeletons at the depth of 16 feet, with numerous implements of the Mousterian type. Spy is situated 3 km northeast of Jemeppe-sur-Sambre.
Jemeppe-sur-Sambre
- Categories: municipality of Belgium and locality
- Location: Jemeppe-sur-Sambre, Arrondissement of Namur, Namur, Wallonia, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
50.46564° or 50° 27′ 56″ northLongitude
4.66868° or 4° 40′ 7″ eastPopulation
18,600Elevation
95 metres (312 feet)United Nations Location Code
BE JPSOpen location code
9F26FM89+7FOpenStreetMap ID
node 688355308OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Zeeuws—“Jemeppe-sur-Sambre” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
- Breton: “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
- Bulgarian: “Жемеп сюр Самбър”
- Catalan: “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
- Cebuano: “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
- Central Kurdish: “ژومێپ-سور-سۆمبر”
- Chinese: “桑布尔河畔热梅普”
- Dutch: “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
- Esperanto: “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
- French: “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
- German: “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
- Hungarian: “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
- Irish: “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
- Italian: “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
- Limburgan: “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
- Luxembourgish: “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
- Mazanderani: “جومپسورسامبر”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
- Norwegian: “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
- Persian: “ژومپ-سور-سمبر”
- Polish: “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
- Portuguese: “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
- Romanian: “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
- Russian: “Жемеп-сюр-Самбр”
- Slovak: “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
- Spanish: “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
- Swedish: “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
- Turkish: “Jemeppe sur Sambre”
- Turkish: “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
- Vietnamese: “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
- Volapük: “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
- Walloon: “Djimepe-so-Sambe”
- Waray (Philippines): “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
- Zeeuws: “Jemeppe-sur-Sambre”
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