Belgium's highest point, the Signal de Botrange is located in this region at only.

This made him top goal scorer for group three and tied him with Belgium's Wesley Sonck for second highest goal scorer for the European Zone of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Qualification.

Belgium's southernmost point is situated in the municipality, at Torgny.

Belgium's major news agency is Belga ( news agency ).

Brussels Airport is Belgium's biggest airport.

With 240, 191 inhabitants in the beginning of 2009, Ghent is Belgium's second largest municipality by number of inhabitants.

Ringwood Brewery founder, Peter Austin, is thought to be an influence on Britain's craft brewery rebirth in much the same way that Fritz Maytag of San Francisco's Anchor Brewing Company and Pierre Celis of Belgium's Hoegaarden Brewery were to their countries.

* May 23 – Belgium's SABENA Airlines is created.

In recent years, an unofficial short version of the anthem is sung during Belgian National Day on July 21 yearly, combining the words of the anthem in all three of Belgium's official languages, similar to the bilingual version of O Canada.

In December 1999, the Belgian Federal Government announced that it would again pursue an active foreign policy, particularly in Central Africa where among others Belgium's former colony, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is situated.

This was unprecedented ; although Baudoin was nominally Belgium's chief executive, Royal Assent has long been a formality ( as is the case in most constitutional and popular monarchies ).

As a hereditary constitutional monarchy system, the role and operation of Belgium's monarchy is governed by the Constitution.

Since he is bound by the Constitution ( above all other ideological and religious considerations, political opinions and debates and economic interests ) the King acts as an arbiter and guardian of Belgium's unity and independence.

It is this family name which is used on the identity cards and in all official documents by Belgium's royalty ( e. g. marriage licenses ).

This is where much of Belgium's wildlife can be found.

Belgium's public debt is about 99 % of GDP.

About 80 % of Belgium's trade is with fellow EU member states.

For example, it is home to Belgium's main airport.

Due to Belgium's often-complicated politics, restructuring has led to decisions seen by some as illogical, such as the decision to mount the ( very uncommon ) CMI 90 mm cannon on the Piranha 3 ( munition is very scarce and only made by a handful of manufacturers ; it will probably be supplied by Mécar ).

One of Belgium's finest conservatories is based in Leuven: the Lemmens Institute, which is described as " Faculty of Music, Performing Arts and Education ".

It stands on the bank of the river Schelde opposite the confluence of the eponymous Rupel, and is famed for its sundials as well as having what is probably Belgium's only tidemill.

In Europe, for example Belgium's Royal Military Academy, military science remains an academic discipline, and is studied alongside Social Sciences, including such subjects as Humanitarian law.

Today, Belgium's beer category called " abbey " is thriving-with several beers brewed under similar licenses to Leffe as well as abbey beers named after abbey ruins or abbeys that no longer exist.

Some older constitutions ( for example, Australia's 1900 text, and Belgium's 1830 text ) do not mention the office of Prime minister at all, the office becoming a de facto reality without formal constitutional status.

For his military service, he received 18 decorations, medals and awards, including the Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster, Bronze Star with Valor device, Purple Heart, World War II Victory Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, Belgium's Order of the Crown and France's Croix de Guerre.

163 Belgian troops were rescued during the Dunkirk evacuation, and Belgium's new navy, the Corps de Marine, only reformed in 1939, also participated.

File: Le pavillon de la Belgique à l ' exposition universelle de Paris en 1900. jpg | Belgium's pavilion

Belgium's de facto independence had been established through nine years of intermittent fighting, the Belgian Revolution.

Born in Belgium to Audrey Dorothy Louise Townshend, daughter of Major General Sir Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend, and Belgian Count Baudouin de Borchgrave d ’ Altena, head of Belgium's military intelligence for the government-in-exile during World War II, Arnaud de Borchgrave was educated in Belgium, Britain and the United States.

The Université catholique de Louvain, sometimes known, especially in Belgium, as UCL, is Belgium's largest French-speaking university.

He also received France's Croix de Guerre and Belgium's Croix de Guerre.

" C ' est Ma Chanson " reached # 1 Interprètes: TEREZA, Les Compagnons de la Chanson, Pétula Clark in France and # 3 on the chart for Belgium's French-speaking sector, also reaching # 10 on Belgium's Dutch chart where the English version had hit # 1 ; total sales of the French language version were reported as 500, 000.

It was owned jointly by the Société Générale de Belgique, Belgium's largest holding company ( which controlled 70 % of the Congolese economy ) and Tanganyika Concessions Ltd.

Although most of the province, including the fortress city of Venlo, at the time Belgium's northernmost fortress, was under Belgian control following Belgium's de facto independence after French intervention, the city of Maastricht remained in Dutch hands.

* Mark Morris-Modern American dancer, choreographer and director, founder of the Mark Morris Dance Group ; Director of Dance at Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Belgium's national opera house ; co-founder of the White Oak Dance Project.

Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".

Against anyone's expectations Doe Maar played eight shows in 2008 with Joost as the fifth man ; four club dates ( June ), a three-night residency at Rotterdam's Feijenoord Stadium ( July 11, 12, 13 ), and a performance at Belgium's brand new Werchter Boutique-festival.

Belgium's accumulated public debt remains high at 99 % of 2009 GDP.

* Price Bridge ( Passerelle George Price ) spanning Belgium's Canal du Centre near Mons-commemorates George Lawrence Price, who died at its predecessor in the last minutes of World War I

The winning entry at the 31st annual contest ( held in Bergen, Norway ) is titled " J ' aime la vie ", and is Belgium's only winning entry to date.

Postwar, Continental bodies gained popularity, at least in Britain, as Belgium's D ' Ieteren Fréres became most associated with the company: their landaulette, on a chassis, was priced in Britain at ₤ 900, between Napier and Rolls-Royce.

Only a week after Liège's fall, Ludendorff, then engaged in the assault on Belgium's second great fortress at Namur, was urgently requested by the Kaiser to serve as Chief of Staff of the Eighth Army on the Eastern Front.

Looking east at Belgium's business district

All of the equipment was seized and a copy of the film is currently stored at Belgium's Cinémathèque Royale ..

In May 2008 it was an announced that Springa and a new lineup of SS Decontrol would be appearing at Belgium's IEPERFEST in August of that year.

His later books include The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey ( 1990 ; new edition, 2007 ), The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin ( 1994 ; new edition, 2003 ), Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels ( 1997 ), which collects his personal essays and reportage, and King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa ( 1998 ; new edition, 2006 ), a history of the conquest and colonization of the Congo by Belgium's King Léopold II.

Belgium's next best placing has been second which it has achieved twice at the 1978 and 2003 contests.

Pfaff was dropped from Belgium's 1982 World Cup side after allegedly pretending to drown in the swimming pool at the team hotel.

Clark, who had been playing to her French speaking fans in small venues in Quebec when " Downtown " entered the US charts, swiftly cut non-English versions of the song for the markets in France, Italy and Germany ; the absence in each region's language of a two-syllable equivalent of " downtown " necessitated a radical lyric recasting for the versions aimed at France (" Dans le temps "), Italy (" Ciao Ciao ", winning the Festivalbar, a juke-box contest ) and Spain (" Chao Chao ") which respectively charted at # 6, # 2 and-for three weeks-# 1: " Dans le temps " also reaching # 18 on Belgium's French-language chart.

On 4 December 1999 van Dam was one of the performers at the marriage of Belgium's Crown Prince Philippe and Mathilde d ' Udekem d ' Acoz.

Then followed by appearances at Germany's Hurricane and Southside Festivals in June, Switzerland's Gurten Festival, Pinkpop in The Netherlands, Belgium's Rock Werchter, Portuguese festival Optimus Alive!

They also played their first show outside of Germany, at Belgium's Eurorock Festival.