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Tongeren

Tongeren is a city and municipality located in the province of in the region of . Its claim to be the "oldest town in Belgium", and its famous "Sunday antique and flea market" make the city a popular tourist attraction.
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  • Type: Town with 30,700 residents
  • Description: former city and municipality in Limburg, Belgium
  • Also known as: “Atuatuca Tungrorum” and “Tóngere”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gallo-Roman Museum and Basilica of Our Lady.

Museum
Photo: Ziko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is an archeological museum in Tongeren. It is dedicated to the prehistorical times and Roman age of the region in South East .

Church
Photo: Hermann Luyken, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , also called Old Cathedral of Tongeren, is the main place of Catholic worship in Tongeren, Belgium, and the former cathedral of the suppressed diocese of Tongeren.

Railway station
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is a railway station in Tongeren, , Belgium. The station is on the Hasselt-Liège railway and marks the beginning of the Tongeren-Aachen railway through to Germany.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Koninksem and Vreren.

Village
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is a village.

Village
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is a village, which is situated 4 km southeast of Tongeren.

Village
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is a village.

Tongeren

Latitude
50.7806° or 50° 46′ 50″ north
Longitude
5.4639° or 5° 27′ 50″ east
Population
30,700
Open location code
9F27QFJ7+7H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1677291073
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Wiki­data ID
Q190113
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Tongeren” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tongeren”
  • Arabic: “أتواتكوم تونغوروم”
  • Arabic: “تونغرين”
  • Arabic: “تونغيرين”
  • Armenian: “Տոնխերեն”
  • Asturian: “Tongeren”
  • Basque: “Tongeren”
  • Belarusian: “Тонгерэн”
  • Breton: “Tongeren”
  • Bulgarian: “Тонгерен”
  • Catalan: “Atuatuca Tungrorum”
  • Catalan: “Tongeren”
  • Catalan: “Tongres”
  • Cebuano: “Tongeren (parokya)”
  • Cebuano: “Tongeren”
  • Chinese: “通厄伦”
  • Chinese: “通厄倫”
  • Czech: “Tongeren”
  • Danish: “Tongeren”
  • Dutch: “Atuatuca Tungrorum”
  • Dutch: “Tóngere”
  • Dutch: “Tongeren”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تونجرين”
  • Esperanto: “Tungro”
  • Finnish: “Tongeren”
  • French: “Atuatuca Tungrorum”
  • French: “Tóngere”
  • French: “Tongres”
  • German: “Atuatuca Tungrorum”
  • German: “Tóngere”
  • German: “Tongeren”
  • German: “Tongern”
  • Greek: “Ατουάτουκον των Τούγγρων”
  • Greek: “Τόνγκερεν”
  • Hebrew: “טונגרן”
  • Hungarian: “Tongeren”
  • Indonesian: “Tongeren”
  • Irish: “Tongeren”
  • Italian: “Atuatuca”
  • Italian: “Tongeren”
  • Italian: “Tongres”
  • Japanese: “トングレン”
  • Japanese: “トンゲレン”
  • Japanese: “トンヘレン”
  • Kazakh: “Тонгерен”
  • Korean: “통거런”
  • Korean: “통게런”
  • Korean: “통게렌”
  • Korean: “통어런”
  • Korean: “통에런”
  • Korean: “통에렌”
  • Latin: “Atuatuca Tungrorum”
  • Limburgan: “Atuatuca Tungrorum”
  • Limburgan: “Tóngere”
  • Lithuanian: “Tongeren”
  • Lithuanian: “Tongerenas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tongeren”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tongeren”
  • Norwegian: “Tongeren”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tongeren (Belgica)”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tongeren”
  • Persian: “تنژران”
  • Picard: “Atuatuca Tungrorum”
  • Picard: “Tóngere”
  • Polish: “Aduatuca”
  • Polish: “Tongeren”
  • Polish: “Tongres”
  • Portuguese: “Tongeren”
  • Romanian: “Tongeren”
  • Romanian: “Tongres”
  • Russian: “Тонгерен”
  • Russian: “Тонгр”
  • Scots: “Tongeren”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tongeren”
  • Slovak: “Tongeren”
  • Slovenian: “Tongeren”
  • Slovenian: “Tongres”
  • Spanish: “Atuatuca”
  • Spanish: “Atuátuca”
  • Spanish: “Tongeren”
  • Spanish: “Tongres”
  • Swedish: “Tongeren”
  • Swedish: “Tongres”
  • Thai: “Tongeren”
  • Thai: “ตงร์”
  • Thai: “โตงเงอเริน”
  • Thai: “ท็องเงิร์น”
  • Turkish: “Tongeren”
  • Turkish: “Tongres”
  • Ukrainian: “Тонгерен”
  • Urdu: “تونگرین”
  • Vietnamese: “Tongeren”
  • Vlaams: “Atuatuca Tungrorum”
  • Vlaams: “Tóngere”
  • Vlaams: “Toungern”
  • Volapük: “Tongeren”
  • Volapük: “Tongres”
  • Walloon: “Atuatuca Tungrorum”
  • Walloon: “Tóngere”
  • Walloon: “Tongue”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tongeren”
  • Welsh: “Tongeren”
  • Zeeuws: “Tongeren”
  • “Atuatuca Tungrorum”
  • “Tóngere”
  • “Tongeren”

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