Rock, water and a narrow strip of streets made Dinant a pressure point on the European map. Wedged between steep cliffs and the Meuse river, the town controlled one of the tightest choke points on a north–south corridor that linked coastal markets with inland coalfields and metalworking hubs.In the age of guilds and river tolls, that bottleneck amplified bargaining power. Traffic on the Meuse conc...More