For the conquered Southern Netherlands the war ended in 1585 with the Fall of Antwerp.

For the third time the final score was 1 – 0, with the only goal scored by Rinus Bennaars who was immediately nicknamed " The hero of Deurne " ( the neighbourhood in Antwerp where the match was played ).

For strategic reasons linked to the protection of Antwerp, the local authorities decided to dismantle the remaining dams.

For example Hirvitalo in Finland, Scheld ' apen in Antwerp and MoË in Vienna.

For instance ; a study of the Thurn and Taxis route from Antwerp to Florence via Mantua would include much of the early postal history of Western Europe and the Postal History of the First Transcontinental Railroad can show a good range of stamps, stationery, and associated marking across 3, 000 miles that started in 1869.

For example, Ghent was taken by the French count Pontécoulant with volunteers from Brussels and Paris: Antwerp by Generals De Parent, Mellinet and Niellon.

For the remainder of 1706, the Allies systemetically captured towns and fortresses, including Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, and Ghent.

For the harbour city of Antwerp the disaster was even greater.

For example, George Joye's Protestant translations of the Psalms ( 1530 ), Isaiah ( 1531 ), Proverbs ( 1533 ), Ecclesiastes ( 1533 ), Jeremiah ( 1534 ) and Lamentations ( 1534 ), all executed in Antwerp, were the first printed English translations of these biblical books.

For the trip he took his own car, a four-door Ford Thunderbird, crossing the channel and journeying through Ostend, Antwerp and Bremen before arriving at his first destination: Hamburg.

For centuries, sailors sat on the Antwerp docks and carved these " mermaids " out of dried skates.

For example, the Reichsthaler / rixdollar / riksdaler / rijksdaalder / rigsdaler were widely accepted as a common accounting unit which represented a variety of local coins in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Antwerp, and Cologne.

For the Antwerp publisher Ons Volk, he created three comics, published as books without a prepublication in a newspaper or magazine.

* Antwerp ( village ), New York

* Antwerp ( town ), New York

* Antwerp ( pigeon ), a domestic breed of Rock Pigeon which originated in the Belgian city

*" Antwerp " ( novel ), by Roberto Bolaño

He was born in Antwerp, where he started his career, but he spent most of it in Middelburg ( 1587 – 1613 ), where he moved with his family because of the threat of religious persecution.

Urban tram networks exist in Antwerp ( the Antwerp Pre-metro ), Ghent and Brussels ( the Brussels trams ), and are gradually being extended.

An island called " Don Garcia " appears on the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of Abraham Ortelius ( Antwerp 1570 ), together with " Dos Compagnos ", slightly to the north.

Various collections of such recipes have been published in book form in Esperanto, e. g. Internacie kuiri (“ Cooking Internationally ”) by Maria Becker-Meisberger, published by FEL ( Flemish Esperanto League ), Antwerp 1989, ISBN 90-71205-34-7, Manĝoj el sanigaj plantoj (“ Healthy Vegetable Dishes ”) by Zlata Nanić, published by BIO-ZRNO, Zagreb 2002, ISBN 953-97664-5-1.

His book, Opticorum Libri Sex philosophis juxta ac mathematicis utiles ( Six Books of Optics, useful for philosophers and mathematicians alike ), published in Antwerp in 1613, was illustrated by famous painter Peter Paul Rubens.

Around this time the center of political and social importance in the Low Countries started to shift from Flanders ( Bruges – Ghent ) to Brabant ( Antwerp – Brussels ), although Ghent would continue to play an important role.

* Hoge Raad voor Diamant ( HRD Antwerp ), The Diamond High Council, Belgium is one of Europe's oldest laboratories.

This harpsichord is the work of two celebrated makers: originally constructed by Andreas Ruckers in Antwerp ( 1646 ), it was later remodeled and expanded by Pascal Taskin in Paris ( 1780 ).

Though there were craftsmen in several cities ( such as Antwerp, Brussels, and Ghent ), the major handicraft center for this cordwain was Mechelen, where it was mentioned as early as 1504.

The rhyolitic tuff portal of the " church house " at Colditz Castle, Saxony, designed by Andreas Walther II ( 1584 ), is a clear example of the exuberance of " Antwerp Mannerism ".

Among his correspondents are the musician and choirmaster of Antwerp, Jacobus Barbirianus ( Barbireau ), Alexander Hegius, rector of the Latin school at Deventer ( of Erasmian fame ), and the humanist scholar and later famed student of Hebrew, Johannes Reuchlin.

The V-2 rocket (, i. e. retaliation weapon 2 ), technical name Aggregat-4 ( A4 ), was a short-range ballistic missile that was developed at the beginning of the Second World War in Germany, specifically targeted at London and later Antwerp.

Especially during the Burgundy period ( the 15th and 16th centuries ), Ypres, Ghent, Bruges, Brussels, and Antwerp took turns at being major European centers for commerce, industry ( especially textiles ) and art.

The rhyolitic tuff portal of the " church house " at Colditz Castle, Free State of Saxony | Saxony, designed by Andreas Walther II ( 1584 ), is a clear example of the exuberance of " Antwerp Mannerism "

In Antwerp ( Belgium ), the last person to be beheaded was Francis Kol.

" Malines, Lierre, Ghent, Alost, Damme, Oudenaarde, Bruges, and on 6 June Antwerp, all subsequently fell to Marlborough ’ s victorious army and, like Brussels, proclaimed the Austrian candidate for the Spanish throne, the Archduke Charles, as their sovereign.

Bunge & Born was founded in 1884 by Ernesto Bunge, a German Argentine whose uncle, Carl Bunge, had been Consul General in Argentina for both the Netherlands and Prussia, and his brother-in-law, Jorge Born, who had recently arrived from Antwerp.

The famous silting up of the harbor for Bruges, which moved port commerce to Antwerp, also followed a period of increased settlement growth ( and apparently of deforestation ) in the upper river basins.

Describing Flanders as the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium is commonplace, although Jewish groups have been speaking Yiddish in Antwerp for centuries, and Flanders ' minority residents include 170 nationalities — their larger groups speaking French, Berber, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, Italian and Polish.

He has been depicted in various artworks, including Rubens ' painting " St Francis Xavier raising the dead ", which the Flemish master painted for a Jesuit church in Antwerp, and in which he depicted one of St Francis ' many alleged miracles ( in this case a resurrection ).

Glamour Women of the Year 2001, 2001 SAIS-Novartis International Journalism Award from Johns Hopkins University, Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from the U. S. Congress, 2004, Honorary Doctorate from University of Antwerp ( Belgium ) for outstanding non-academic achievements, as well as many other awards.

Orbison went to Europe where he was presented with an award and played a show in Antwerp where footage for the video for " You Got It " was filmed.

* Publication of the play A Larum for London, or the Siedge of Antwerp in London.

* Antwerp is besieged for three days by Maarten van Rossum.

Furthermore, upon hearing of the capture of Antwerp, a relief fleet sent to raise the siege instead blockades the Schelde river, preventing any and all ships from reaching Antwerp for two centuries.

Clinical trials are currently underway in Antwerp, Belgium using VNS for the treatment of tonal tinnitus after a breakthrough study published in early 2011 by researchers at the University of Texas-Dallas showed successful tinnitus suppression in rats when tones were paired with brief pulses of stimulation of the vagus nerve.

History plays dealt with more recent events, like A Larum for London which dramatizes the sack of Antwerp in 1576.

During the 17th century, Antwerp was still a major European center for commerce, industry and art.

During this early period of the French rule, the Belgian economy was completely paralyzed: it was forbidden to export from the port of Antwerp, heavy taxes had to be paid in gold and silver coin, while goods bought by the French were paid for with worthless assignats.

Like many, Hals ' parents fled during the Fall of Antwerp ( 1584-1585 ) from the Spanish Netherlands to Haarlem, where he lived for the remainder of his life.

From here, he was undertaken by several masters around Antwerp and Middelburg before being employed by a local English merchant named John Strewe for a few months.

Due to overwhelming ticket demand the three reunion-concerts expanded up to a whole tour consisting of eight warm-up shows in both the Netherlands and Belgium, and a 16-night stint at the Ahoy interrupted for a one-off at the Antwerp Sports Palace ; the same crew of extra musicians on Klaar joined them on stage, only René was not invited.

A common misbelief is that in late 13th century Bruges commodity traders gathered inside the house of a man called Van der Beurze, and in 1309 they became the " Brugse Beurse ", institutionalizing what had been, until then, an informal meeting, but actually, the family Van der Beurze had a building in Antwerp where those gatherings occurred ; the Van der Beurze had Antwerp, as most of the merchants of that period, as their primary place for trading.