Liege
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Liege or Liège has several meanings:
- A Liège is a classic sporting car, designed for personal assembly, by Peter Davis in Evesham, UK, and often used in Classic Trials and other long distance motoring events
- In Western feudalism, a liege is a party in the vassalic oath of allegiance to someone: both the vassal and, more usually, his liege lord. The term has specifically been reserved (not always) for a 'priviliged' allegiance, to take precendence in case of conflicting allegiances, as in England always was the case with allegiance to the crown
- Hence a liege is now any person or entity to which one has pledged allegiance.
- Liège is a city of Belgium.
- It is the seat of the Catholic Bishopric of Liège, as prince-bishopric a former state in the Low Countries.
- Liège is a province of Belgium,called after the capital city.
- Liège-Bastogne-Liège, a famous one-day road cycling race in Belgium, starts and ends there.
- The Liège Island, in the Antarctic.
- Liège (Paris Metro) is a subway station in Paris.