* Official site of Belgian monarchy

") is an obvious parallel to the French " Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité "-with the republican sentiment of the original replaced in the Belgian version by the promotion of constitutional monarchy ( the combination of " The King " and "( the ) Law " is what produces " Liberty ").

Actually, a slogan similar to the Belgian one-" la Nation, la Loi, le Roi " (" The Nation, The Law, The King ")-had been used in the early days of the French Revolution, when that revolution was still considered to be aimed toward constitutional monarchy rather than a republic.

Nevertheless, in 1961, the historian Ramon Arango, wrote that the Belgian monarchy is not truly constitutional.

He compared the King to a father, the head of a family According to Arango, Leopold III of Belgium shared these views about the Belgian monarchy.

The Belgian monarchy was immediately a constitutional monarchy, patterned after that of the United Kingdom.

For Raymond Fusilier, the Belgian monarchy had to be placed-at least in the beginning-between the regimes where the king rules and the regime when the king does not rule but only reigns.

The Belgian monarchy is not merely symbolic, because it rules as far as the King agrees with his ministers.

The Belgian historian Jean Stengers wrote that some foreigners believe the monarchy is indispensable to national unity.

The Belgian monarchy symbolises and maintains a feeling of national unity by representing the country in public functions and international meetings.

* 11 July: Information leaks out that the Belgian weapon manufacturer FN Herstal is allowed to deliver 5, 500 M249 SAW light machine guns to the Nepali monarchy, a decision made by all coalition parties.

The lesser coat of arms ( as used by the Belgian federal government, on passport covers and the official sites of the monarchy and of the government ) consists of the shield, the royal crown, the crossed sceptres, the collar of the Order of Leopold and the motto.

The popularity of the House of Orange-Nassau in Flanders is partly based on the francophile tendency of the Belgian monarchy.

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For over 20 years prior to German and then Belgian colonization, a Tutsi monarchy had controlled most of Rwanda.

Flanders is a part of the Belgian federal parliamentary representative democratic monarchy, which itself is part of the European Union.

The marriage was arranged to strengthen the status of the Belgian Monarchy: as the former Protestant monarch of a newly established monarchy, the Belgian King wished his son to marry a member from a Roman Catholic and prestigious dynasty, and the name Habsburg was one of her more important qualities.

The Belgian monarchy is still alive and well.

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The titles of heirs apparent to a monarchy are treated as substantive titles, such as the Dutch Prince of Orange, Belgian Duke of Brabant, Spanish Prince of Asturias, British Prince of Wales, Danish Crown Prince, Luxemburgish Hereditary Grand Duke, and the Monégasque and Liechtensteiner Hereditary Princes.

Hercule Poirot (; ) is a fictional Belgian detective, created by Agatha Christie.

On publication of the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to be given an obituary in the New York Times ; 6 August 1975 " Hercule Poirot is Dead ; Famed Belgian Detective ".

Very little mention is made in Christie's work about this part of his life, but in " The Nemean Lion " ( 1939 ) Poirot himself refers to a Belgian case of his in which " a wealthy soap manufacturer poisoned his wife in order to be free to marry his secretary ".

Japp is outgoing, loud and sometimes inconsiderate by nature, and his relationship with the bourgeois Belgian is one of the stranger aspects of Poirot ’ s world.

* 1964 – The Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

* 1918 – World War I: The Battle of the Lys – the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders.

Ans is a Belgian municipality in the province of Liège.

Postal service in Belgium is in many cases performed by Belgian Post Group, a semi-privat public company which has as a monopoly on letters until 50g weight.

Metro ( Belgian newspaper ) ( Concentra ) is a major daily free newspaper in a Dutch and French edition.

The country code for Belgian websites is. be.

Belgian Blue is a breed of beef cattle from Belgium.

The Belgian Blue's sculpted, heavily muscled appearance is known as " double-muscling ".

The Belgian Blue is named after their typically blue-grey mottled hair colour, however its colour can vary from white to black.

Since the Belgian Blue ’ s bone structure is the same as a normal cow, however holding a greater amount of muscle, causes them to have a greater meat to bone ratio.

* The Belgian ( horse ) is also known as a Brabant or Brabançon

This combination first appeared in 1949, and is ascribed to Gustave Tops, a Belgian barman, who created it at the Hotel Metropole in Brussels in honor of Perle Mesta, then U. S. ambassador to Luxembourg.

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.

The Commonwealth of Nations — formerly the British Commonwealth — is a voluntary association of 54 independent sovereign states, most of which are former British colonies, or dependencies of these colonies with three exceptions, Mozambique ( which was a Portuguese possession ), Rwanda ( which was a Belgian mandate ) and Cameroon ( which is a union of a French mandate and a British mandate ) plus the United Kingdom itself.

Belgian Forces identity tags are, like the Canadian and Norwegian, designed to be broken in two in case of fatality ; the lower half is returned to Belgian Defence tail, while the upper half remains on the body.

It is believed that the seized vehicles ( which included 15 Belgian Army Pandur APCs leased to Beninise army troops ) and parts have been used to equip the Military of Equatorial Guinea, and such seizure are considered by some as an act of piracy.

Having developed from a loose confederation of national political parties in the 1970s, the ELDR is now a recognised European political party incorporated as a non-profit association under Belgian law.