The autonomous territory of Neutral Moresnet, between what is today Belgium and Germany, had a sizable proportion of Esperanto-speakers among its small and multiethnic population.

The autonomous territory of Neutral Moresnet, between Belgium and Germany, had a sizable proportion of Esperanto-speakers among its small and multiethnic population.

It came to refer specifically to the County of Flanders, lasting from 862 to 1795, whose territory was situated in the northwestern part of what is now Belgium ( the Belgian provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders ), with extensive portions in what is now northern France ( French Flanders ), and a small area that is now part of the Netherlands ( Zeelandic Flanders ).

Belgian journalist Jo Gérard has claimed that a family manuscript dated 1781 recounts that potatoes were deep-fried prior to 1680 in what was then the Spanish Netherlands and is now present-day Belgium, in the Meuse valley: " The inhabitants of Namur, Andenne, and Dinant, had the custom of fishing in the Meuse for small fish and frying, especially among the poor, but when the river was frozen and fishing became hazardous, they cut potatoes in the form of small fish and put them in a fryer like those here ".

There was a chromatic harp developed in the late 19th century that only found a small number of proponents, and was mainly taught in Belgium.

Luxembourg is a small country located in the Low Countries, part of North-West Europe It borders Belgium ( 148 kilometres ) to the west and north, France ( 73 km ) to the south, and Germany ( 138 km ) to the east.

The post – World War I accords and the League of Nations charter designated the area a British Mandate, except for a small area in the northwest, which was ceded to Belgium and later became Rwanda and Burundi, as well as a small area in the southeast ( Kionga Triangle ), incorporated to Portuguese East Africa ( later Mozambique ).

The Germans governed the occupied areas of Belgium through a General Governorate of Belgium, while a small area of the country remained unoccupied by the Germans.

Belgium was liberated late in 1944 by Allied forces, including British, Canadian, and American armies, including a small Belgian national contingent.

Nevertheless, he supported World War I when it broke out, not least as Belgium, for whose defence Britain was supposedly fighting, was a " small nation " like Wales or indeed the Boers.

The Belcar series in Belgium allows silhouettes and touring cars to race alongside GTs, while the VdeV Modern Endurance allows small prototypes from national championships such as the Norma, Centenari and Radical to race alongside GT3 class cars.

That's pretty much a small town in Belgium.

With an unbelievable number of political entities and institutions piled up on a small territory of 30, 500 square kilometers, Belgium holds the European record of the most costly political system: no less than 57 ministers and state secretaries spread across six different governments, which are surrounded by seven parliaments and a dozen provincial governments.

The Seventeen Provinces were a personal union of states in the Low Countries in the 15th century and 16th century, roughly covering the current Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, a good part of the North of France ( Artois, French Flanders ), and a small part of Western Germany.

The Walloon author Claude Renard explained the relative successes of the general strike by the relative small territory of Belgium ( and especially Wallonia where the industry was concentrated ).

In Die Neue Zeit, she pointed out the small territory of Belgium, the fact that only 3 or 400 thousand workers were able to make the country strike-bound.

England, France, Belgium, and Italy all have small boats from the medieval periods that could reasonably be construed to be predecessors of the Dory.

In Belgium, the capital, Brussels, is administratively one of the federation's three regions, and is the only city subdivided, without the other regions ' provincial level, into 19 rather small municipalities, which each have an elected — formally appointed — Burgomaster ( i. e., Mayor, responsible to his / her elected council ); while Antwerp, the other major metropolitan area, has one large city ( where the boroughs, former municipalities merged into it, elect a lower level, albeit with very limited competence ) and several smaller surrounding municipalities, each under a normal Burgomaster as in Brussels.

A small part of Belgium is also drained by the Mosel through the Our.

* Bure, Belgium, a small village in the Belgian province of Luxembourg, known for the Chantoir ( sinkhole ) de Bure.

At the First Hague Conference, which opened on 6 May 1899, there was a disagreement between the Great Powers — which considered francs-tireurs to be unlawful combatants subject to execution on capture — and a group of small countries headed by Belgium — which opposed the very principle of the rights and duties of armies of occupation and demanded an unlimited right of resistance for the population of occupied territories.

* imec vzw, Materials and Component Analysis group, Leuven, Belgium

The ALDE parliamentary group is led by Guy Verhofstadt, a former Prime Minister of Belgium.

West Flemish (, ) is a dialect group of Dutch spoken in parts of the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.

The non-German Germanic languages language group ( 0. 5 %) like Danish, Dutch and Frisian were located in the north and northwest of the empire, near the borders with Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.

The Netherlands ' postwar customs union with Belgium and Luxembourg ( the Benelux group ) paved the way for the formation of the European Community ( precursor to the EU ), of which the Netherlands was a founding member.

RIPEMD-160 ( RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest ) is a 160-bit message digest algorithm ( cryptographic hash function ) developed in Leuven, Belgium, by Hans Dobbertin, Antoon Bosselaers and Bart Preneel at the COSIC research group at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and first published in 1996.

In 1989 Vieille Montagne was merged into the Union Minière group, based in Belgium, which became Umicore in 2003.

A 4-4 draw against Belgium and a victory against Switzerland were enough to place England top of the first-round group and qualify for the quarter-finals, where they were beaten 4-2 by defending champions Uruguay.

The earliest Arts and Crafts activity in continental Europe was in Belgium in about 1890, where the English style inspired artists and architects including Gabriel Van Dievoet, Gustave Serrurier-Bovy, Henry Van de Velde and a group known as La Libre Esthétique ( Free Aesthetic ).

The group were headliners at the TW Classic festival in Werchter, Belgium on 7 June 2008.

Front 242 became a popular musical group in Belgium.

The largest group of immigrants and their descendants in Belgium are Moroccans, with more than 450, 000 people.

Bhutan maintains diplomatic relations with ten European nations: Austria ; Belgium ; Denmark ; Finland ; the Netherlands ; Norway ; Serbia ; Spain ( with whom it established relations in February 2011 ); Sweden ; and Switzerland, which form the " Friends of Bhutan " group, along with Japan, which contributes towards development projects in Bhutan.

Three examples of current practice are Martha Schwartz based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, the Dutch design group ( West 8 ) based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and the Belgian architects Wirtz nv based in Schoten, Belgium with the known landscape architect Jacques Wirtz.

He played in the 1990 FIFA World Cup, scoring a hat-trick against South Korea in Spain's second game ( 3 – 1 ), and also a penalty against Belgium in the nation's final group game.

* the belfry of the town hall, as part of the Belfries of Belgium and France group, since 2005

Prior to 1995, the members of the Flemish Parliament were the members of the Dutch language group of the Federal Parliament of Belgium.

Low Franconian, Low Frankish, or Istvaeonic, is a group of several West Germanic languages spoken in the Netherlands, northern Belgium ( Flanders ), in the northern department of France, in western Germany ( Lower Rhine ), as well as in Suriname, South Africa and Namibia that originally descended from Old Frankish.

Once in Belgium, the group set about calling friends and friends ' friends to tell them they were alive and on their way home, and on June 12 they arrived at a monastery in the southern Netherlands where she and her friends were housed with between 1500 and 2000 others.

Consensus democracy is most closely embodied in certain countries such as Switzerland, Lebanon, Sweden, Iraq and Belgium, where consensus is an important feature of political culture, particularly with a view to preventing the domination of one linguistic or cultural group in the political process.

As K. Blows writes, " the combination of constant friction between the two ( resulting in the nearest thing to violence the group had seen ) and the constant presence of Lawton's wife on the road finally led to the vocalist getting the chop, shortly after playing the Bilzen Festival in Belgium ".

The Bonnot Gang ( La Bande à Bonnot ) was a French criminal anarchist group that operated in France and Belgium during the Belle Époque, from 1911 to 1912.

They are members of a religious group that originally fled from Holland and Belgium in the 16th century to escape persecution and eventually resettled in these areas.