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.

Professor Paul Ilegems, curator of the Friet-museum in Antwerp, Belgium, believes that Saint Teresa of Ávila fried the first chips, referring also to the tradition of frying in Mediterranean cuisine .< ref name = demorgen_schoetens1 >

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.

* February 27 – George Joye publishes his Apologye in Antwerp to clear his name from the accusations of William Tyndale

* 1905 – Texaco establishes an operation in Antwerp, Belgium, under the name Continental Petroleum Company.

Her name has been used to name astronomical observatories such as the Urania in Berlin, Budapest, Bucharest, Vienna, Zurich, Antwerp and Uraniborg on the island of Hven.

A record of the name Malle emerges for the first time in 1194, when the bishop of Kamerijk donated the altar of Malle and Vorsele to the Chapter of Our Kind Lady of Antwerp.

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

Mr W. Aldis Wright, however, judging from the facts that the name of Whytchurch was introduced, that the places of printing were given as London and Paris, not Antwerp, and lastly that Emanuel van Meteren being born in 1535 could only have derived his knowledge from hearsay, is inclined to think that the Bible in which J. van Meteren was interested “ was Matthew's of 1537 or the Great Bible of 1539, and not Coverdale's of 1535 ”.

At BimFEST 2011 in Antwerp, they played their final gig under the Severed Heads name.

In 1801 his name was erased from the list of emigres by Napoleon ; in 1803, after the Saint-Domingue expedition he was sent to Antwerp as commissioner-general and maritime prefect to supervise the erection of defence works, and the creation of a fleet.

However, the name analemma, which also meant a sundial showing latitude and longitude, was the common name until François d ' Aguilon of Antwerp promoted its present name in 1613.

Antoon van Dyck ( his Flemish name ) was born to prosperous parents in Antwerp.

One of his first acts was to order the publication, under his own name and authority, two works for the purpose of inciting Roman Catholics in England to rise up against Elizabeth: The Declaration of the Sentence of Sixtus V, a broadside, and a book, An Admonition to the nobility and people of England ( Antwerp, 1588 ).

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

This sequel is known as El Lazarillo de Amberes, Amberes being the Spanish name for Antwerp.

As early as 1825 his name was mentioned as a possible candidate for the throne of Greece, and in February 1831 he was nominated king of the Belgians, but international considerations deterred Louis-Philippe from accepting the honour for his son, who was accompanying the French army that entered Belgium to support the new kingdom in its separation from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands ; there he took part in the siege of Antwerp.

Jean-Paul DeCoster and Phil Wilde met in their hometown of Antwerp, Belgium, and their first collaboration under the name of Bizz Nizz, the single " Don't Miss The Party Line ", was a substantial hit across Europe, including in the United Kingdom where it reached no.

However, the name analemma, which also meant a sundial showing latitude and longitude, was the common name until François d ' Aguilon of Antwerp promoted its present name in 1613.