Verviers, a manufacturing town of Belgium, most picturesquely situated on the river Vesdre, 15 miles ESE. of Liège by rail. It is of recent growth, and depends almost wholly on its cloth manufactures. Pop. (1881) 41,692; (1891) 50,223.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 464
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