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Meuse
*Meuse* (French)
*Moûze* (Walloon)
*Maas* (Dutch)
*Maos* (Limburgish)
Meuse; Meuse (French); Moûze (Walloon); Maas (Dutch); Maos (Limburgish)
	The Meuse at Dinant
	Basin of the Meuse
Location
Country	France, Belgium, Netherlands
Region	Western Europe
Cities	Verdun (France), Sedan (France), Charleville-Mézières (France), Namur (Belgium), Liège (Belgium), Maastricht (Netherlands), Venlo (Netherlands), Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Physical characteristics
Source
- location	Pouilly-en-Bassigny, Le Châtelet-sur-Meuse, Haute-Marne, Grand Est, France
- coordinates	47°59′12″N 5°37′00″E / 47.9867°N 5.6167°E
- elevation	409 m (1,342 ft)
Mouth	North Sea
- location	Hollands Diep, Noord-Brabant/Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
- coordinates	51°42′54″N 4°40′04″E / 51.715°N 4.6678°E
- elevation	0 m (0 ft)
Length	925 km (575 mi)
Basin size	34,548 km2 (13,339 sq mi)
Discharge
- average	350 m3/s (12,000 cu ft/s)

The Meuse (Dutch: Maas) is a river in Western Europe. The river starts in France, goes through Belgium and the Netherlands. It ends in the North Sea.^[2] The Meuse is fed mostly by rainwater.^[3] It is the oldest river in the world.

History

From 1301, the Meuse in the Netherlands was the western border of the Holy Roman Empire. In World War II, the Meuse was a goal for the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge.^[4]

↑ Marcel de Wit, Robert Leander, Adri Buishand: Extreme discharges in the Meuse basin Archived 2014-01-06 at the Wayback Machine, p. 2
(The frequently mentioned figure of 250 m³/s refers to the Borgharen gauge near the frontier between Belgium and the Netherlands representing two thirds of the basin.)
↑ Robert Pateman; Mark Elliott, Belgium (New York: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2006), p. 11
↑ Wetlands: Environmental Gradients, Boundaries, and Buffers, ed. George Mulamoottil; et al. (CRC Press, 1996), p. 92
↑ Steve Kane, The 1st SS Panzer Division in the Battle of the Bulge (Bennington, VT: Merriam Press, 1997), p. 22