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(詳細はWallonia, a federated component of Belgium, which also includes the smaller German-speaking Community of Belgium (73,000 inhabitants). Wallonia is the name colloquially given to the Walloon Region. The French word ''Wallonie'' comes from the term ''Wallon'', itself coming from ''Walh''. ''Walh'' is a very old Germanic word used to refer to a speaker of Celtic or Latin.〔Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel (1963), ''English and Welsh in Angles and Britons: O'Donnell Lectures'', University of Cardiff Press. (read online )〕 ==Prehistory== , the largest find of the fossilised remains of Iguanodon to date occurred in 1878 in a coal mine at Bernissart, at a depth of . ''I. bernissartensis'', that lived from the Barremian to the early Aptian (Early Cretaceous) in Europe, between about 130 and 120 million years ago. The Grotte de Spy (Spy Cave) is located near Spy, Belgium, in the Walloon] municipality of Jemeppe-sur-Sambre in the province of Namur. It was discovered in 1886 and has been classified as Wallonia's Major Heritage. It is one of the most important paleolithic sites in Europe. The excavation was conducted by Marcel de Puydt, Max Lohest and Julien Fraipont of Liège. They proved the existence of the Neanderthal. Fraipont published an article about the cave in the American Anthropologist.〔''La race humaine de Neanderthal ou de Canstadt en Belgique: Recherches ethnographiques sur des ossements d'une grotte à Spy et détermination de leur âge géologique in ''American Anthropologist'', Vol. 1, No. 3 (Jul., 1888), pp. 286-287 (review consists of 2 pages)〕 Spiennes, another famous Walloon village in the municipality of Mons, Province of Hainaut, has well known neolithic flint mines〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Neolithic Flint Mines of Petit-Spiennes : Official web site )〕 that are included on UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites. The entry on the list describes them as "the largest and earliest concentration of ancient mines in Europe" and cites the level of early technological development they demonstrate as justification for their inclusion. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of Wallonia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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