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Charleroi

American  
[shar-luh--rwa] / ʃar lə ˈrwa /
Or Charleroy

noun

  1. a city in S Belgium.


Charleroi British  
/ ʃarlərwa /

noun

  1. a town in SW Belgium, in Hainaut province: centre of an industrial region. Pop: 200 608 (2004 est)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Air traffic was also halted as a precaution at the second-largest airport Charleroi, operators there said.

From Barron's Nov. 4, 2025

The budget airline said it will cut three aircraft from those based at Charleroi airport in Belgium, two from Dublin and five from Italian airports, including Bergamo, Naples and Pisa.

From Reuters Sep. 28, 2023

After failing to score in 16 games for Wolfsburg he went on trial with several Belgian clubs but Club Bruges and Zulte Waregem did not pick him up, so he went on loan to Charleroi.

From BBC Mar. 15, 2023

Barbara Ann Bosson was born in Charleroi, Pa., on Nov. 1, 1939, and spent her early years in nearby Belle Vernon, south of Pittsburgh.

From Washington Post Feb. 22, 2023

On the 24th of June he had collected 52,000 men at various points round Charleroi, and on the 25th he set out to relieve the little fortress.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

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