Antwerp is the name of a city, a district and a province in Flanders, Belgium:

Antwerp is also the name of a number of places

There is also a well-developed urban rail network in Brussels, Antwerp and Charleroi.

Some heavy metro infrastructures were built in Brussels, Antwerp and the Charleroi area, but these are currently used by light rail vehicles, and their conversion to full metro is not envisaged at present due to lack of funds.

Regional transport in Belgium is operated by regional companies: De Lijn in Flanders operates the Kusttram and the Antwerp pre-metro as well as a bus network, TEC in Wallonia operates the Charleroi pre-metro as well as a bus network and MIVB / STIB in the Brussels Capital-Region operates the Brussels metro as well as the Brussels tram and bus network.

* R1 is the southern half ringway and R2 is the northern half ringway around Antwerp.

The Port of Antwerp is one of the largest in Europe and the world

The Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica of Henricus Hondius ( Antwerp 1630 ) repeats Wright's misreading of the name, which is then proliferated on all subsequent Dutch maps of the period, and to the present day.

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.

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

Its main stakeholder is the Antwerp World Diamond Centre.

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 ).

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 ".

* 1576 – Eighty Years ' War: In Flanders, Spain captures Antwerp ( after three days the city is nearly destroyed ).

* April – May – William Tyndale is arrested in Antwerp and imprisoned in Vilvoorde.

* October 4 – The first complete English-language Bible is printed in Antwerp, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.

** Peter Paul Rubens begins work on his famous classical tapestries, when a contract is signed in Antwerp with cloth dyers Jan Raes and Frans Sweerts in Brussels, and the rich Genoese merchant Franco Cattaneo.

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

* December 4 – Battle of Antwerp: The last remaining Dutch enforcement, the citadel, is under French attack.

** Antwerp is captured by Spanish forces under the Prince of Parma, who orders Protestants to leave the city.

* Orlande de Lassus ' first book of madrigals is published, in Antwerp.

It is not clear exactly when he left Worms and moved to Antwerp.

* November 4 – Eighty Years ' War: In the Low Countries, mutinous Spanish soldiers sack Antwerp ( after three days, the city is nearly destroyed ).

* November – Lionel of Antwerp, son of King Edward III of England, is created Duke of Clarence.

Jan Mabuse ( c. 1478 – 1 October 1532 ) was the name adopted ( from his birthplace, Maubeuge ) by the Flemish painter Jan Gossaert ; or Jennyn van Hennegouwe ( Hainaut ), as he called himself when he matriculated in the guild of St Luke, at Antwerp, in 1503.

She is named in the colophon to the Elizabethan Brigittine Long Text manuscript produced in exile in the Antwerp region, now known as the Paris Manuscript.

Long dismissed as a " fringe " party by mainstream politicians, the Flemish Block shocked observers when in the 1991 elections it posted a relatively high percentage of votes in much of Flanders, especially in Antwerp.

She has received music commissions and has performed her work for Zankel Hall in Carnegie Hall, NYC ; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C .; The Kennedy Center, Washington, D. C .; Banlieues Bleues Festival in Paris ; Tampere Jazz Happening in Finland ; Philippine Women's University in Manila ; Lincoln Center in NYC ; San Francisco Jazz Festival ; TED ( conference ) in Long Beach, California ; Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, Spain ; the Museum of Modern Art, New York ; De Singel in Antwerp ; the Barbican Centre in the United Kingdom.

Hanjin Shipping's world-class logistics network includes 13 dedicated terminals in Long Beach, Antwerp, Kaohsiung, and Busan among others and six inland logistic bases in such locations as Shanghai, Qingdao, and Port Kelang.

Long was born in Antwerp, Ohio in 1904.

The siege of Antwerp in the summer of 1585 by the Duke of Parma necessitated some reaction on the part of the English and the Dutch.

The law was named after Sir Thomas Gresham, a sixteenth century financial agent of the English Crown in the city of Antwerp, to explain to Queen Elizabeth I what was happening to the English shilling.

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.

The Anjou courtship, at the end of which Leicester and several dozen noblemen and gentlemen escorted the French prince in triumph to Antwerp, also touched the question of English intervention in the Netherlands to help the rebellious provinces.

Unfortunately for Louis, the English landed an army of 40, 000 in 1809 in an attempt to capture Antwerp and Flushing.

Antwerp was then Europe's largest financial and international trading centre, taking as much as 75 or 80 % of English exports of cloth, and the disturbances created serious and well-justified fears that its position as such was under threat.

Sir Thomas Gresham, the English financier who arranged Elizabeth I's borrowings, and whose agent in Antwerp was Clough, left London for Antwerp on August 23, only hearing about the Antwerp attacks en route ; he needed to roll-over 32, 000 Flemish pounds and borrow another 20, 000 to finance her expenses in Ireland.

" The English had found the Antwerp money market short of funds since earlier in the year, and now made use of Cologne and Augsburg as well, but as events unfolded in the next year, and the personal position of some leading lenders became precarious, the English found to their surprise that repayments were no longer pressed for, probably as the lenders were happy to keep their money abroad on loan to a secure borrower.

The earliest English account is that of Richard Rowland Verstegan ( 1548 – c. 1636 ), an antiquary and religious controversialist of partly Dutch descent, in his Restitution of Decayed Intelligence ( Antwerp, 1605 ); he does not give his source.

His forebears, both Flemish / Dutch and English, were armigerous, and their coats of arms can be traced in three out of four cases, revealing that Vanbrugh was of gentle descent ( Jacobson, of Antwerp and London

To escape arrest he again went abroad, and officiated as clergyman to the English residents at Antwerp and then at Middelburg.

Mechelen ( locally pronounced, French Malines, English traditional name Mechlin ) is a Dutch-speaking city and municipality in the province of Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium.

In 1534, Rogers went to Antwerp as chaplain to the English merchants of the Company of the Merchant Adventurers.

: In 1877 Henry Stevens, in his catalogue of the Caxton Exhibition, pointed out a statement by a certain Simeon Ruytinck in his life of Emanuel van Meteren, appended to the latter's Nederlandische Historic ( 16, 4 ), that Jacob van Meteren, the father of Emanuel, had manifested great zeal in producing at Antwerp a translation of the Bible into English, and had employed for that purpose a certain learned scholar named Miles Conerdale ( sic ).

He was born in Antwerp, the son of Sir Jacobus van Meteren, Dutch financier and publisher of early English versions of the Bible, and Orrilia Ortellius, of the famous Ortellius family of mapmakers, and nephew of the cartographer Abraham Ortelius.

Not only Joannes Eudaemon, Heribert Rosweyd and Scioppius ( Gaspar Schoppe ), but a respectable writer, friendly to Casaubon, Andreas Schott of Antwerp, gave currency to the insinuation that Casaubon had sold his conscience for English gold.

Jan Gruter was Dutch on his father's side and English on his mother's, and was born at Antwerp.

After theological disputes he changed his name and went to Antwerp, where he served as priest to the English factory.

) It was the Antwerp version that circulated throughout Europe, translated into French ( 1560 ), English ( 1576 ), Dutch ( 1579 ) after Flanders came under Dutch rule ( 1578 ), German ( 1617 ), and Italian ( 1622 ).

During the second part of the 1820s, and in addition to English and Scottish scenes, Roberts painted views of prominent buildings in France and the Low Countries including Amiens, Caen, Dieppe, Rouen, Antwerp, Brussels and Ghent, sometimes making several paintings of the same scene with only minor variations.