Pepinster

Hall du Paire is a multi-purpose arena in Pepinster, Belgium. Hall du Paire holds 4,000 people and opened in 2006. It hosts the home games of the RBC Verviers-Pepinster professional basketball club.

The Hoëgne is a river in Belgium, a left tributary of the Vesdre. Its source is in the High Fens of eastern Belgium, near the Signal de Botrange. The Hoëgne flows through Theux, and ends in the Vesdre in Pepinster.

Theux (French pronunciation: ​[tø]; Walloon: Teu) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 11,571 inhabitants. The total area is 83.36 km², giving a population density of 139 inhabitants per km². The municipality consists of the following districts: La Reid, Polleur, and Theux (including the hamlet of Tancrémont).

Ensival (Walloon: Enzivå) is a town of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Verviers, located in the province of Liège, Belgium. Before the merging of the Belgian municipalities in 1977, it was a municipality of its own.

Verviers (French pronunciation: [vɛʁvje] (listen); Walloon: Vervî) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. The municipality consists of the following districts: Ensival, Heusy, Lambermont, Petit-Rechain, Stembert, and Verviers. It is also the center of an agglomeration that includes Dison and Pepinster, making it the second biggest in the province and an important regional center, located roughly halfway between Liège and the German border. Water has played an important role in the town's economy, notably in the development first of its textile and later its tourist industries. As a result, many fountains have been built in Verviers, leading it to be named Wallonia's "Water Capital". The seats of the two Walloon public institutions for water distribution and water treatment are located in the town.

Tancrémont is a hamlet of Wallonia split between the municipalities of Pepinster and Theux, located in the province of Liège, Belgium. The north side of 666 National Road that crosses the hamlet is part of the municipality of Pepinster.

Franchimont Castle (French: Château de Franchimont) is a medieval castle in the municipality of Theux, Liège Province, Wallonia, Belgium. It sits at the western end of a small hill 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) south of the village of Theux, a sub-municipality.

Verviers-Theux Airfield (French: Aérodrome de Verviers-Theux, ICAO: EBTX) is a public use airport located 3 km (2 mi) east-northeast of Theux, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium.

Verviers-Central railway station (French: Gare de Verviers-Central, Dutch: Station Verviers-Centraal), officially Verviers-Central, is a railway station in Verviers, Liège, Belgium. The station opened on 1 February 1930 and is located on railway line 37. The train services are operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (SNCB/NMBS).

The 1692 Verviers earthquake, also known as the 1692 Ardennes earthquake, occurred in the east of Belgium on 18 September 1692 measuring around 6.2 on the Richter scale. Parish records and historical accounts strongly indicate the earthquake's epicenter was northwest of Verviers, and the event was widely felt across Western Europe in Belgium, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France. The largest amount of damage occurred in the northwestern environs of Verviers, then part of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège. Researchers at the Royal Observatory of Belgium have considered this the strongest known earthquake in Western Europe north of the Alps, which occurred as part of a sequence of quakes from the Lower Rhine Graben in September 1692.

Collège Saint-François-Xavier is a mixed Catholic secondary school in Verviers, Belgium. It was founded in 1855 by the Jesuits. It is located on Rue de Rome in the centre of the city. It is now known as SFX un. In 1984, the old Institut des Saint-Anges in the city centre became SFX deux.

On 15 January 2015, Belgian police carried out a raid on premises in Verviers, Belgium. According to news sources, the raids were an anti-terrorist operation against Islamist radicals.