Xhoris

Xhoris is a nucleus of the municipality of Ferrières, in the province of Liège in the Walloon region of Belgium. Until January 1, 1977, it was an independent municipality. Originally, Xhoris would have been a villa of the Gallo-Romans who transformed the Germanic virgin forest into farmland. The name of the place called Le mont would come not from heaps, but from the Latin mansion or settlement. In the middle of the twentieth century, the remains of a Frankish cemetery were excavated. The first mention of the Scuricitas people dates back to 902 in an act of land exchange by Louis IV of Germany. Xhoris was a small lordship of the county of Logne in the principality of Stavelot-Malmedy. At the site called Grange, Stavelot-Malmedy Abbey built a cense, a long farm to deposit the census in kind. Except for some calciners who used local limestone and ubiquitous firewood to make lime, there was little industry. Until the advent of tourism in the twentieth century, the greatest economic role of the people was always agriculture.

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