Editing Meuse (section)

==Basin area==
[[File:Dinant Rochers Freyr R01.jpg|thumb|The Meuse and the ''Rochers de Freÿr'', in front of the [[Castle of Freÿr]] south of Dinant]]
[[File:01-Namur-290305 (1).jpg|thumb|The Meuse at [[Namur]], capital of Belgium's [[Wallonia]]]]
[[File:Meuse fragnee.jpg|thumb|The Meuse at [[Liège]], third [[river port]] of Europe]]
[[File:Maas.jpg|thumb|The Meuse (''Maas'') at Maastricht]]
[[File:Tussen Gennep en Oeffelt, de Maas foto6 2015-11-02 14.52.jpg|Meuse near [[Gennep]]|thumb]]
[[File:Maas grave.jpg|thumb|Meuse near [[Grave, Netherlands|Grave]]]]
[[Image:Appeltern, de Maas foto7 2011-01-16 14.43.jpg|Meuse near [[Appeltern]]|thumb]]

An international agreement was signed in 2002 in [[Ghent]], Belgium, about the management of the river amongst France, Germany, [[Luxembourg]], the Netherlands, and Belgium. Also participating in the agreement were the Belgian regional governments of [[Flanders]], [[Wallonia]], and [[Brussels]] (which is not in the basin of the Meuse but pumps running water into the Meuse).

Most of the basin area (approximately 36,000&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) is in Wallonia (12,000&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>), followed by France (9,000&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>), the Netherlands (8,000&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>), Germany (2,000&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>), Flanders (2,000&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) and Luxembourg (a few km<sup>2</sup>).

An International Commission on the Meuse has the responsibility of the implementation of the treaty.

The costs of this Commission are met by all these countries, in proportion of their own territory in the basin of the Meuse: Netherlands 30%, Wallonia 30%, France 15%, Germany 14.5%, Flanders 5%, Brussels 4.5%, Kingdom of Belgium 0.5%, and Luxembourg 0.5%.

The map of the basin area of Meuse was joined to the text of the treaty.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://environnement.wallonie.be/legis/international/accord004.htm |title=Accord international sur la Meuse |access-date=2010-01-30 |archive-date=2022-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220523160539/http://environnement.wallonie.be/legis/international/accord004.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

As for culture, as a major communication route the River Meuse is the origin of [[Mosan art]], principally (Wallonia and France).

The first landscape painted in the Renaissance was the landscape of Meuse by [[Joachim Patinir]].<ref>{{langx|fr|Les rochers par lesquels l'art gothique suggère conventionnellement un site sauvage et désertique, sont présents. Comme d'aucuns l'ont remarqué, ces pics rocheux  qui vont devenir chez Patinier, indissociables de l'évocation d'un paysage ressemblent à ceux qu'il a pu voir dans la région [[dinant]]aise (...) Mais il va de soi que les paysages représentés ne sont jamais dans leur ensemble la transposition de sites existants. L'espace tel que le conçoit Patinier est d'un autre ordre que celui qui s'offre au spectateur dans la réalité.|links=no}} in 'L'essor du paysage' in Jacques Stiennon, Jean-Patrick Duchesne, Yves Randaxhe, ''Cinq siècles de peinture en Wallonie'', Les éditeurs d'art associés, Bruxelles, 1988, p. 67-72. The landscape of the Mosan valley is  the inspiration of Patinier but the result of  this inspiration was not a painting of this landscape.</ref> He was likely the uncle of  [[Herri met de Bles|Henri Blès]], who is sometimes defined as a Mosan landscape painter active during the second third of the 16th century (i.e. second generation of landscape painters).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fraiture |first=Pascale |date=2002 |title=Contribution of scientific methods to the understanding of the work of the 16th century painter, Henri Bles |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1125786504700247 |journal=Dendrochronologia |language=en |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=285–299 |doi=10.1078/1125-7865-00022|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

===Tributaries===
The main tributaries of the Meuse are listed below in downstream-upstream order, with the town where the tributary meets the river:
* [[Dieze]] (near [['s-Hertogenbosch]])
** [[Aa (Meuse)|Aa]] (in 's-Hertogenbosch)
** [[Binnendieze]] (in 's-Hertogenbosch)
** [[Dommel]] (in [['s-Hertogenbosch]])
*** [[Gender (stream)|Gender]] (in [[Eindhoven]])
* [[Raam (river)|Raam]] (in [[Grave, Netherlands|Grave]])
* [[Niers]] (in [[Gennep]])
* [[Swalm]] (in [[Swalmen]])
* [[Roer|Rur/Roer]] (in [[Roermond]])
** [[Wurm (Rur)|Wurm]] (in [[Heinsberg]], Germany)
** [[Merzbach]] (in [[Linnich]], Germany)
** [[Inde]] (in [[Jülich]], Germany)
* [[Kingbeek]] (near [[Illikhoven]])
* [[Geleenbeek]] (near [[Maasbracht]])
* [[Geul]] (near [[Meerssen]])
* [[Jeker|Geer/Jeker]] (in [[Maastricht]])
** [[Yerne]] (in Lens-sur-Geer)
*  [[Voer|Voer/Fouron]] (in [[Eijsden]])
* [[Berwinne|Berwinne/Berwijn]] (near [[Moelingen]], part of [[Voeren]])
* [[Ourthe]] (in [[Liège]])
** [[Vesdre|Weser/Vesdre]] (near [[Liège]])
** [[Amblève (river)|Amel/Amblève]] (in [[Comblain-au-Pont]])
*** [[Salm, Belgium|Salm]] (in [[Trois-Ponts]])
*** [[Warche]] (near [[Malmedy]])
* [[Hoyoux]] (in [[Huy]])
* [[Mehaigne]] (in [[Wanze]])
* [[Sambre]] (in [[Namur]])
* [[Houyoux]] (in Namur)
* [[Bocq]] (in [[Yvoir]])
* [[Molignée]] (in [[Anhée]])
* [[Lesse]] (in [[Anseremme]], part of [[Dinant]])
* [[Viroin]] (in [[Vireux-Molhain]])
* [[Faux (river)|Faux]] (in [[Revin]])
* [[Semois|Semois or Semoy]] (in [[Monthermé]])
* [[Sormonne (river)|Sormonne]] (in [[Warcq, Ardennes|Warcq]])
* [[Bar (Ardennes river)|Bar]] (near [[Dom-le-Mesnil]])
* [[Chiers]] (in [[Bazeilles]])
** [[Othain]] (in [[Montmédy]])
* [[Vair (river)|Vair]] (in [[Maxey-sur-Meuse]])
* [[Mouzon (river)|Mouzon]] (in [[Neufchâteau, Vosges]])
* Saônelle (in [[Coussey]])