Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

At the same time, Angola has promoted the revival of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries ( CPLP ) as a forum for cultural exchange and expanding ties with Portugal ( its former ruler ) and Brazil ( which shares many cultural affinities with Angola ) in particular.

Countries where ASL or a derivative of ASL is the national or a widespread language include Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana ( with BSL ), Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d ' Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya ( minority use ), Liberia, Madagascar ( minority use ), Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines ( L2 use ), Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Trinidad and Tobago, Togo, and Zimbabwe ( with ZSL ).

Montgomery's training paid off when the Germans began their invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 and the 3rd Division advanced to the River Dijle and then withdrew to Dunkirk with great professionalism, entering the Dunkirk perimeter in a famous night-time march which placed his forces on the left flank which had been left exposed by the Belgian surrender.

To isolate the Danube from any Allied intervention, Marshal Villeroi's 46, 000 troops were expected to pin the 70, 000 Dutch and English troops around Maastricht in the Low Countries, while General de Coigny protected Alsace against surprise with a further corps.

Countries which often operate with coalition cabinets include: the Nordic countries, the Benelux countries, Australia, Austria, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Turkey, Israel, New Zealand, Kosovo, Pakistan, Kenya, India, Trinidad and Tobago, Thailand and Ukraine.

Countries with high forest cover can be expected to be at early stages of the FT. GDP per capita captures the stage in a country ’ s economic development, which is linked to the pattern of natural resource use, including forests.

Through marriage, the County of Flanders was joined with most of the rest of the Low Countries around 1400 AD, and it lost its independence.

In the Early modern period, the term Flanders was associated with the southern part of the Low Countries: the Southern Netherlands.

In 2004 the Right to Food Guidelines are adopted, offering guidance to states on how to implement their obligations on the right to food .< ref > Olivier de Schutter ( 2010 ) " Countries tackling hunger with a right to food approach.

In the Low Countries, an ottavino was commonly paired with an 8 ' virginals, encased in a small cubby under the soundboard of the larger instrument.

IJscolf, a game resembling Colf with the added element of an ice-covered surface, was popular in the Low Countries between the Middle Ages and the Dutch Golden Age.

Countries contribute money to a pool through a quota system from which countries with payment imbalances can borrow funds temporarily.

Countries in which Interstitial Cystitis / Painful Bladder Syndrome IC / PBS is now recognized with an official disability code:

* Financing Instrument for Cooperation with Industrialised and Other High Income Countries and Territories, an instrument of the European Union

Countries pictured ( clockwise from upper left ) are Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt ( across the Gulf of Aqabah ), Israel, and the disputed West Bank, with Jordan in the center.

Soon dispute plunged the surviving brothers into a civil war that was only settled in 843 by the Treaty of Verdun, which split the Frankish realm into three parts, to become the kernels of France and Germany, with Burgundy and the Low Countries between them.

Countries with high numbers of land mine victims

Countries are forced to follow suit, on this view, because should they not foreign investment will dry up, move places with lower " burdens " and leave more people jobless and poor.

In the same year, Mozambique became a founding member and the first President of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries ( CPLP ), and maintains close ties with other Lusophone states.

Countries seen as not being sufficiently compliant with such recommendations are subjected to financial sanctions.

Episodes of widespread famine and disease devastated the population of the German states and, to a lesser extent, the Low Countries, Bohemia and Italy, while bankrupting many of the regional powers involved.

Countries with a minority Muslim population are more likely than Muslim-majority countries of the Greater Middle East to use mosques as a way to promote civic participation.

Famine and disease significantly decreased the population of the German states and Bohemia, the Low Countries, and Italy, and most of the combatant powers were bankrupted.

The Countries of the United Kingdom are divided into parliamentary constituencies of broadly equal population by the four Boundary Commissions.

Countries with sufficient programmes in place to limit population growth, and the ability to become self sufficient in the future would continue to receive food aid.

In the late 14th and early 15th centuries, the population and economy of the town were bolstered by the arrival of craftsmen and merchants from France and the Low Countries who came to England to escape wars and religious persecution in their home countries.

Countries of birth of Australian estimated resident population, 2006.

Countries with dominant Mestizo population.

Countries rapidly approaching long term population declines ( but currently still growing, albeit slowly ) include Greece, Spain, Cuba, Uruguay, Denmark, Finland, Portugal, Austria and Lesotho.

* Islam: Countries with significant Muslim population are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey, Kosovo in Serbia, several republics of Russia and Crimea in Ukraine.

At the same time, the lower strata of the society ( notably the peasants ) formed a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural mixture of Poles, Lithuanians, Jews and Ruthenians, as well as a small yet notable population of immigrants from all parts of Europe, from Italy to Scotland and from the Low Countries to Germany.

Estimates of the total population of Europe are speculative, but at the time of Charlemagne it is thought to have been between 25 and 30 million, and of this more than half were in the Carolingian Empire that covered modern France, the Low Countries, western Germany, Austria, Slovenia, northern Italy and part of northern Spain.

There is no direct evidence linking Darwin to Benjamin Franklin's treatise " Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc .." However, Franklin was a friend and colleague of both Erasmus and Robert Darwin, and it has been suggested that this work may have influenced Darwin's study of Malthus ' belief on the relationship between population and subsistence.

Eventually, the Franks in Northern France were assimilated by the general Gallo-Roman population, and took over their dialects ( which became French ), whereas the Franks in the Low Countries retained their language, which would evolve into Dutch.

Countries currently represented in the student population include Rwanda, Brazil, South Africa, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Australia, Bahamas, Burma ( Myanmar ), Canada, France, China, Ireland, South Korea, and the United Kingdom.

Each of these institutions was a centre of mysticism, and it was the Beguines, the Beghards, and the sons of Saint Francis who shaped the thought of the urban population of the Low Countries.

With his experience it was logical that Marlborough took charge of the 8, 000 British troops sent to the Low Countries in the spring of 1689 ; yet throughout the Nine Years ' War ( 1688 – 97 ) he saw only three years service in the field, and then mostly in subordinate commands.

These colonists from the Low Countries were especially welcome there because of their experience with and knowledge of land reclaiming and making polders.

These factors, combined with the experience gained through the FATF's Non-Cooperative Countries and Territories process, and a number of national and international initiatives, led the FATF to review and revise the Forty Recommendations into a new comprehensive framework for combating money laundering and terrorism financing.

Along side his brother Captain Thomas Maria Wingfield, for at least four years, Edward Maria fought as a foot company commander ( i. e. commander of 100 pike-wielding soldiers ) in the Low Countries for the Dutch Republic against Spanish invaders, including in 1586 at the Battle of Zutphen, thereby gaining experience in the defense of forts and in skirmishing.