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Belgium

Summary

Prehistory and Antiquity

The Belgian Middle Ages

Belgium and the house of Burgundy

Charles Quint and the Pragmatic Sanction

The revolt against Habsbourgs

The division of the Netherlands

Adjustments of the borders

Austrian domination

The annexation by France

Plain Netherlands and the Belgian Revolution

Independent Belgium

Economic development and colonization

Two world wars in Belgium

Contemporary Belgium

Two languages for a unilingual State

Limited to north by the Netherlands, the east by the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg, in the south by France and the west by France and the North Sea, Belgium is a small country (30 ' 528 km2) which is in the center of the most important industrial merger and urban of Western Europe (the quadrilateral the Ruhr - Randstad Holland - Nord-Pas-de-Calais - the Lorraine-Saar) and in the middle of the back-country of the Atlantic line understanding the strongest concentration of seaports, of Le Havre in Hamburg.

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