As

As is a municipality positioned in the Belgian province of Limburg. On January 1, 2006, As had a complete populace of 7,497. The overall place is 22.07 km² which offers a population density of 340 inhabitants consistent with km². In 1971 the municipality changed into shaped by means of the merger of two villages - As and Niel-bij-As, which each lie on the Bosbeek brook at the Campine plateau between the Demer and Meuse Rivers. The region of the settlements near a water path in this dry location gave rise to the villages' names: "As" is a prehistoric name for water which first cited the Bosbeek brook and later the village itself. Archaeological unearths imply an early prehistoric settlement, along with gadgets product of flint courting from the earliest Stone Age.

The location turned into inhabited from 500 BC as proven through a cemetery inside the subject between Genk and As. The Romans constructed the road from Tongeren to Venlo thru Munsterbilzen and As. The current street subsequent to the brook and the roads to Niel and Dorne follow the course of the Roman road. However, the Romans did not set up any settlements in the vicinity as the sandy soil become no longer fertile sufficient. After the autumn of Rome, the Francs invaded the vicinity and set up themselves in As.