The Belgian coalfield outcrops over most of its area, and the highly folded nature of the seams meant that surface occurrences of the coal were very abundant.

Its roots lay in the arts and crafts school founded by the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in 1906 and directed by Belgian Art Nouveau architect Henry van de Velde.

It is situated at the watershed of the Congo and Zambesi rivers, part of the district lay in Northern Rhodesia and part in the Belgian Congo State.

However, his talents lay more in salesmanship and motoring pioneering than practical engineering ; in January 1903, with the help of £ 6, 600 provided by his father, he started one of Britain's first car dealerships, C. S. Rolls & Co. based in Fulham, to import and sell French Peugeot and Belgian Minerva vehicles.

The Prince was about to lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Belgian Unknown Soldier at the foot of the Colonne du Congrès.

The Belgian National Geographic Institute, the Belgian national cartographical service, calculated that the geographical centre of Belgium lay in this municipality, in Nil-Saint-Vincent at.

It used to be the far west ( West-ende: Dutch for west-end ) of the island Testerep which lay along the Belgian coast.

* In 1879-1884, the explorer Henry Morton Stanley ( b. 1841-d. 1904 ) was styled Plenipotentiary of the Committee for the Studies of Upper Congo ( CEHC ) ( from 1882, renamed International Association of the Congo, a front for the ambitions of Belgian King Leopold II, not supported by the Belgian government ) in Equatorial Africa, while military command lay with four consecutive Commandants of the ( leading ) station at Karema ; on 22 April 1884 the International Association of the Congo became the independent Free Congo State, under regular authorities ( headed, strictly personal, by Belgian king Leopold II ), at first styled Administrator-general.

The origins of the MAC lay in the 1960 independence of the Belgian Congo and the resulting Congo Crisis which saw the vast majority of white colonials, who were largely French-speaking, return to Belgium.

At Méteren, near the Belgian border at Bailleul on 13 October 1914, during an Allied counter-offensive, he was shot through the right lung by a sniper.

According to Julius Caesar, the Belgian tribe of the Atuatuci " was descended from the Cimbri and Teutoni, who, upon their march into our province and Italy, set down such of their stock and stuff as they could not drive or carry with them on the near ( i. e. west ) side of the Rhine, and left six thousand men of their company there with as guard and garrison " ( Gall.

The following month, Ribbentrop was arrested by Sergeant Jacques Goffinet, a French citizen who had joined the Belgian SAS and was working with British forces near Hamburg.

Maastricht is situated on both sides of the Meuse river ( Dutch: Maas ) in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands, on the Belgian border ( with both the Dutch-speaking Flemish and French-speaking Walloon region within easy reach from the city centre ) and near the German border.

From December 1920 until September 1921, Magritte served in the Belgian infantry in the Flemish town of Beverlo near Leopoldsburg.

He led his army through the Siege of Antwerp and the Battle of the Yser, when the Belgian army was driven back to a last, tiny strip of Belgian territory, near the North Sea.

Limburg mijn Vaderland is the official anthem of both Belgian and Dutch Limburg, and has versions in various dialects of Limburgish, varying from accents closer to standard Dutch in the west, to more distinctive dialects near the Maas.

A series of Allied counter-attacks — including the Battle of Arras — failed to sever the German spearhead, which reached the coast on 20 May, separating the British Expeditionary Force ( BEF ) near Armentières, the French 1st Army, and the Belgian Army further to the north from the majority of French troops south of the German penetration.

The Battle of Nieuwpoort, between a Dutch army under Maurice of Nassau and Francis Vere and a Spanish army under Albert of Austria, took place on 2 July 1600 near the present-day Belgian city Nieuwpoort.

It is located in Cyberjaya near The Domain and serves French / Belgian food and snacks, liquors and beers from all over the world.

That September, they moved to the Belgian village of Steenokkerzeel near Brussels, where they were closer to several members of their family.

At the outset of World War I, German troops crossed the Belgian border near Arlon, then proceeded hurriedly towards the North Sea to secure the French ports of Calais and Dunkirk.

Rotselaar is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Flemish-Brabant, near the convergence of the Demer and the Dijle.

A final golf party near the Belgian coast occurred in May, 1940, shortly before the Nazi invasion of Belgium.

Diepenbeek is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg near Hasselt.

Genk (, ) is a city and municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg near Hasselt.

Heusden-Zolder is a municipality located in the Belgian province of province of Limburg near Hasselt.

Lummen is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg near Hasselt.

Nieuwerkerken is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg near Hasselt.

Zonhoven is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg near Hasselt.

Bilzen is a Belgian city and municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg near Hasselt.

Kortessem is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg near Hasselt.

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.

Eight and a half years before writing the book, Conrad had been appointed by a Belgian trading company to serve as the captain of a steamer on the Congo River.

Old Belgian river station on the Congo River, 1889

Belgian King Leopold II also tried to gain a foothold on the northern bank of the Congo River and send Stanley to the area around Brazzaville.

While the Belgian interest soon concentrated on the Congo River, the British and Germans focused on Eastern Africa and in 1886 partitioned continental East Africa between themselves ; the Sultanate of Zanzibar, now reduced to the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, remained independent, for the moment.

The area was first developed in 1801 when a Belgian aristocrat, Henri Joseph Stier, purchased 800 acres situated between two tributaries of the Anacostia River known as the Paint and Northwest branches.

A shipping canal connecting the Belgian port of Antwerp with the Rhine River traverses Zuid-Beveland.

Dinant () is a Walloon city and municipality located on the River Meuse in the Belgian province of Namur, Belgium.

Heart of Darkness ( 1903 ) is a first-person within a first-person account about a man named Marlowe who travels up the Congo River in search of an enigmatic Belgian trader named Kurtz.

By October 1914, the much battered Belgian Army broke the dykes on the Yser River to the north of the City to keep the western tip of Belgium out of German hands.

After 1900, the Belgian Congo province of Katanga on the western shores of the lake developed faster than the Northern Rhodesian side, the Luapula Province and the town of Kasenga a few hours by boat up the Luapula River became the most developed in the Luapula-Mweru valley, and until the 1960s was the main commercial centre with better services and infrastructure than elsewhere.

With Belgian, German and Portuguese frontiers to contend with, Johnston ensured that British bomas were established ( in addition to those in Nyasaland ) east of Luapula-Mweru at Chiengi and the Kalungwishi River, at the south end of Lake Tanganyika at Abercorn, and at Fort Jameson between Mozambique and the Luangwa valley.

The German terms, as presented on July 15, while containing an offer to cede the northern part of Kamerun and Togoland, demanded from France the whole of the French Congo from the Sangha River to the sea, to which was later added the transfer of France's right to the preemption of the Belgian Congo.

Stanley's charting of the Congo River Basin ( 1874 – 1877 ) removed the last bit of terra incognita from European maps of the continent, thereby delineating the rough areas of British, Portuguese, French, and Belgian control.

This showed that the triangle of land at the northwestern point of Eastern Rhodesia from Pweto to as far south as the Lunchinda River was under Northern Rhodesia even though the Belgian Congo had administered it for many years.

** Chinese, German, Norwegian, Jews, American, Irish, Latin American, French, Belgian Canadian and other immigrants who had been in the California goldfields arrive in British Columbia, attracted by the Fraser River Gold rush, joining French Canadians, Métis, Hawaiians and others already in the area who abandoned regular employment to work the banks of the Fraser alongside the native peoples, who also took part in the rush.

In response to this, French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr River valley inside the borders of Germany.

A city terminus of steamer navigation on the Congo River, the town began as a Belgian trading post.

Cockerill-Sambre was a group of Belgian steel manufacturers headquartered in Seraing ( province of Liège ), on the Meuse River, and in Charleroi, on the shore of the Sambre River.

The Belgian and British forces had withdrawn to a line on the River Yser ( IJzer ), which flows into the North Sea at Nieuwpoort.

A U. S. attack by the 1st Battalion, 7th Infantry on Communist forces near Hill 257 was ordered to support the Belgian withdrawal from the north bank of the Imjin River.

a bestselling novel about a missionary family, the Prices, who in 1959 move from Georgia ( U. S. state ) to the village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo, close to the Kwilu River.

A member of the Mbuti people, Ota Benga lived in equatorial forests near the Kasai River in what was then the Belgian Congo.