Editing Trooz

{{Short description|Municipality in Liège Province, Belgium}}
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|mayor=Fabien Beltran (PS)
|majority=[[Socialist Party (francophone Belgium)|PS]], ÉcoVA
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|web=[http://www.trooz.be/ www.trooz.be]
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'''Trooz''' ({{IPA|fr|tʁo}}; {{langx|wa|LiTrô}}) is a [[Municipalities of Belgium|municipality]] of [[Wallonia]] located in the [[Liège Province|province of Liège]], [[Belgium]].

On 1 July 2012 Trooz had 8,432 registered inhabitants, of whom 4,199 were male and 4,233 female. The total area is 24.00&nbsp;km² which gives a [[population density]] of 351 inhabitants per km².<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ibz.rrn.fgov.be/fileadmin/user_upload/Registre/fr/statistiques_population/stat_1_f.pdf |title=''Chiffre global de la population par commune'', statistiques fédérales issue du registre national (SPF intérieur) |access-date=29 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090419074752/http://www.ibz.rrn.fgov.be/fileadmin/user_upload/Registre/fr/statistiques_population/stat_1_f.pdf |archive-date=19 April 2009 }}</ref>

Trooz is situated on the [[Vesdre]] River, and is part of the [[:fr:GREOA|GREOA]] (''Groupement Régional Économique des vallées de l'Ourthe et de l'Amblève'') regional grouping for economic purposes.

The municipality consists of the following [[deelgemeente|districts]]: [[Forêt, Wallonia|Forêt]], [[Fraipont]], [[Nessonvaux]].

The town centre is the former hamlet of Trooz, in the district of Forêt, which gave its name to the municipality.

==Industrial heritage ==
The municipality includes several surrounding hamlets including [[:fr:Nessonvaux|Nessonvaux]] which is where, between 1904 and 1958, the [[Impéria Automobiles|Impéria]] company produced automobiles. The factory building survives. This building is one of three examples of test tracks on its roof. The other known roof test tracks are on the roof of the old [[Fiat]] factory in [[Turin]], Italy, and Palacio Chrysler in Buenos Aires, which opened in 1928.

[[File:Nessonvaux imperia piste.jpg|thumb|none|The Imperia car factory at Nessonvaux, photographed in 2004: part of the 1928 roof-top test track can be seen on the right side of the building and has been ringed in this picture.]]

==See also==
* [[List of protected heritage sites in Trooz]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline}}

{{Geographic location
|Centre = Trooz
|N = [[Fléron]], [[Olne]]
|E = [[Pepinster]]
|S = [[Sprimont]]
|W = [[Chaudfontaine]]
}}
{{Municipalities in Liège}}
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[[Category:Municipalities of Liège Province]]
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