Brussels, the Glossary
Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.[1]
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- Populated places established in the 1st millennium
- Regions of Belgium
- Regions of Europe with multiple official languages
Aachen
Aachen (French: Aix-la-Chapelle; Oche; Aquae Granni or Aquisgranum) is the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the 27th-largest city of Germany, with around 261,000 inhabitants.
Academy Palace
The Academy Palace or Palace of the Academies (Palais des Académies; Academiënpaleis or Paleis der Academiën) is a neoclassical palace in Brussels, Belgium.
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ADEPS
ADEPS is an administrative service of the Ministry of the French Community of Belgium charged with the promotion of sport and physical education amongst the population of the French-speaking community.
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
Agency for Care and Health (Flanders)
The Agency for Care and Health (in Dutch: Agentschap Zorg en Gezondheid) is an agency of the Flemish Government.
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Agnosticism
Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or currently unknown in fact.
Air traffic control
Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based air traffic controllers (people) who direct aircraft on the ground and through a given section of controlled airspace, and can provide advisory services to aircraft in non-controlled airspace.
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Airspace
Airspace is the portion of the atmosphere controlled by a country above its territory, including its territorial waters or, more generally, any specific three-dimensional portion of the atmosphere.
Ambulance
An ambulance is a medically-equipped vehicle used to transport patients to treatment facilities, such as hospitals.
Amsterdam
Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.
Ancienne Belgique
The i (AB) is a concert hall for contemporary music in Brussels, Belgium.
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Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe
Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe is a transnational serial nature UNESCO World Heritage Site, encompassing 93 component parts (forests of European beech, Fagus sylvatica) in 18 European countries.
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Anderlecht
Anderlecht is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium.
André Waterkeyn
André Waterkeyn (23 August 1917 – 4 October 2005) was a Belgian engineer, born in Wimbledon, London, best known for creating the Atomium.
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Anglicanism
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.
Anna Boch
Anna-Rosalie Boch (10 February 1848 – 25 February 1936), known as Anna, was a Belgian painter, art collector, and the only female member of the artistic group, Les XX.
Anthony van Dyck
Sir Anthony van Dyck (i; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy.
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Anthony, Duke of Brabant
Anthony, Duke of Brabant, also known as Antoine de Brabant, Antoine de Bourgogne and Anthony of Burgundy (August 1384 – 25 October 1415), was Count of Rethel (1402–1406), Duke of Brabant, Lothier and Limburg (1406–1415), and Co-Duke of Luxemburg (1411-1415).
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Antique
An antique is an item perceived as having value because of its aesthetic or historical significance, and often defined as at least 100 years old (or some other limit), although the term is often used loosely to describe any object that is old.
Antwerp
Antwerp (Antwerpen; Anvers) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.
Antwerp Pre-metro
The Antwerp Premetro is a network consisting of lines 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 15 of the Antwerp Tram system.
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Arrondissement of Halle-Vilvoorde
The Halle-Vilvoorde Arrondissement is one of the two administrative arrondissements in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant.
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Arrondissement of Leuven
The Leuven Arrondissement is one of two arrondissements in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant.
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Arrondissements of Paris
The City of Paris is divided into twenty arrondissements municipaux, administrative districts, referred to as arrondissements.
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Art Nouveau in Brussels
The Art Nouveau movement of architecture and design first appeared in Brussels, Belgium, in the early 1890s, and quickly spread to France and to the rest of Europe.
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Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes and for his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism.
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Atheism
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.
Atlanta
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.
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Atomium
The Atomium is a landmark modernist building in Brussels, Belgium, originally constructed as the centrepiece of the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Expo 58).
Auderghem
Auderghem (also archaic Dutch) or Oudergem is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium.
Austrian Netherlands
The Austrian Netherlands Oostenrijkse Nederlanden; Pays-Bas Autrichiens; Österreichische Niederlande; Belgium Austriacum.
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Avant-garde
In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time.
Avenue de Tervueren
The italic or italic is a major thoroughfare in Brussels, Belgium.
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Avenue Louise
The italic or italic (Dutch) is a major thoroughfare in Brussels, Belgium.
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Baroque architecture
Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the early 17th century and gradually spread across Europe.
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Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Brussels
The National Basilica of the Sacred Heart (Basilique nationale du Sacré-Cœur; Nationale Basiliek van het Heilig-Hart) is a Roman Catholic minor basilica and parish church in Brussels, Belgium.
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Basilicas in the Catholic Church
Basilicas are Catholic church buildings that have a designation, conferring special privileges, given by the Pope.
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Battle of Nancy
The Battle of Nancy was the final and decisive battle of the Burgundian Wars, fought outside the walls of Nancy on 5 January 1477 by Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, against René II, Duke of Lorraine, and the Swiss Confederacy.
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Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium), marking the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
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Beech
Beech (Fagus) is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Eurasia and North America.
Beer
Beer is an alcoholic beverage produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches from cereal grains—most commonly malted barley, although wheat, maize (corn), rice, and oats are also used.
Beer in Belgium
Beer in Belgium includes pale ales, lambics, Flemish red ales, sour brown ales, strong ales and stouts.
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Beijing
Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.
BEL 20
The BEL 20 is the benchmark stock market index of Euronext Brussels.
Belga (news agency)
Belga is a Belgian news agency which was founded in 1920 as the Agence télégraphique belge de presse by Pierre-Marie Olivier and Maurice Travailleur.
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Belgian Academy Council of Applied Sciences
The Royal Belgian Academy Council of Applied Sciences (BACAS) is a Belgian council, which consists of the Flemish Academy Committee for Science and Technology (CAWET) and Walloon Comité de l'Académie pour les Applications de la Science (CAPAS) committees of the Flemish and French Academies of Science in Belgium.
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Belgian colonial empire
Belgium controlled several territories and concessions during the colonial era, principally the Belgian Congo (modern DR Congo) from 1908 to 1960, Ruanda-Urundi (modern Rwanda and Burundi) from 1922 to 1962, and Lado Enclave (modern Central Equatoria province in South Sudan) from 1884 to 1910.
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Belgian Comic Strip Center
The Belgian Comic Strip Center (Centre belge de la Bande dessinée; Belgisch Stripcentrum) is a museum in central Brussels, Belgium, dedicated to Belgian comics.
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Belgian comics
Belgian comics are a distinct subgroup in the comics history, and played a major role in the development of European comics, alongside France with whom they share a long common history.
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Belgian cuisine
Belgian cuisine is widely varied among regions, while also reflecting the cuisines of neighbouring France, Germany and the Netherlands.
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Belgian Federal Parliament
The Federal Parliament is the bicameral parliament of Belgium.
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Belgian French
Belgian French (français de Belgique) is the variety of French spoken mainly among the French Community of Belgium, alongside related Oïl languages of the region such as Walloon, Picard, Champenois, and Lorrain (Gaumais).
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Belgian National Day
Belgian National Day (Nationale feestdag van België; Fête nationale belge; Belgischer Nationalfeiertag) is the national holiday of Belgium commemorated annually on 21 July.
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Belgian National Orchestra
The Belgian National Orchestra (Nationaal Orkest van België, Orchestre National de Belgique) is a Belgian orchestra, based in Brussels.
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Belgian Pro League
The Belgian Pro League, officially the Jupiler Pro League, due to sponsorship reasons with Jupiler, is the top league competition for association football clubs in Belgium.
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Belgian Revolution
The Belgian Revolution was the conflict which led to the secession of the southern provinces (mainly the former Southern Netherlands) from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the establishment of an independent Kingdom of Belgium.
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Belgian waffle
In English-speaking countries, Belgian waffles are a variety of waffle with a lighter batter, larger squares, and deeper pockets than American waffles.
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Belgians
Belgians (Belgen; Belges; Belgier) are people identified with the Kingdom of Belgium, a federal state in Western Europe.
Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Brussels and Belgium are french-speaking countries and territories.
The Belgium national football team has officially represented Belgium in men's international football since their maiden match in 1904.
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Belgium national rugby union team
The Belgium national rugby union team (Équipe de Belgique de rugby à XV) (Dutch: Belgisch nationaal rugbyteam) represents Belgium in men's international rugby union competitions, nicknamed Diables Noirs / Zwarte Duivels (Black Devils).
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BELvue Museum
The BELvue Museum (Musée BELvue; BELvue Museum) is a museum in the Royal Quarter of Brussels, Belgium, focusing on the history of Belgium.
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Benelux
The Benelux Union (Benelux Unie; Union Benelux; Benelux-Unioun) or Benelux is a politico-economic union and formal international intergovernmental cooperation of three neighbouring states in Western Europe: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
Berbers
Berbers, or the Berber peoples, also called by their endonym Amazigh or Imazighen, are a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Arab migrations to the Maghreb.
Berchem-Sainte-Agathe
Berchem-Sainte-Agathe (French) or Sint-Agatha-Berchem (Dutch), often simply called Berchem, is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium.
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Berchem-Sainte-Agathe railway station
Berchem-Sainte-Agathe railway station (Gare de Berchem-Sainte-Agathe) or Sint-Agatha-Berchem railway station (Station Sint-Agatha-Berchem) is a railway station in the municipality of Berchem-Sainte-Agathe in Brussels, Belgium.
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Berlaymont building
The Berlaymont building is an office building in Brussels, Belgium, which houses the headquarters of the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union (EU).
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Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.
BeTV (Belgium)
BeTV (formerly Canal+ Belgique) is a Belgian cable television platform launched on, when the former platform Vivendi sold Canal+ Benelux.
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Bicycle-sharing system
A bicycle-sharing system, bike share program, public bicycle scheme, or public bike share (PBS) scheme, is a shared transport service where bicycles are available for shared use by individuals at low cost.
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Biotechnology
Biotechnology is a multidisciplinary field that involves the integration of natural sciences and engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms and parts thereof for products and services.
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Bistro
A bistro or bistrot, in its original Parisian form, is a small restaurant serving moderately priced, simple meals in a modest setting.
Blake and Mortimer
The Adventures of Blake & Mortimer is a Belgian comics series created by writer and comics artist Edgar P. Jacobs.
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Blanching (horticulture)
Blanching is a technique used in vegetable growing.
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Blue Banana
The Blue Banana, also known as the European Megalopolis or the Liverpool–Milan Axis, is a discontinuous corridor of urbanization in Western and Central Europe, with a population of around 100 million.
Boarding school
A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction.
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Bockstael railway station
Bockstael railway station (Gare de Bockstael; Station Bockstael) is a railway station in Brussels, Belgium, operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB).
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Bois de la Cambre
The italic or italic (Dutch) is an urban public park in Brussels, Belgium.
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Boitsfort railway station
Boitsfort railway station (Gare de Boitsfort) or Bosvoorde railway station (Station Bosvoorde) is a railway station in the municipality of Watermael-Boitsfort in Brussels, Belgium, operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB).
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Bombardment of Brussels
During the Nine Years' War, the French Royal Army carried out a bombardment of Brussels from August 13–15, 1695.
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Boondael railway station
Boondael railway station (Gare de Boondael) or Boondaal railway station (Station Boondaal) is a railway station in the municipality of Ixelles in Brussels, Belgium, operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB).
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Bordet railway station
Bordet railway station (Gare de Bordet; Station Bordet) is a railway station in the municipality of Evere in Brussels, Belgium, operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB).
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Bossemans et Coppenolle
Bossemans et Coppenolle is a Belgian play by Joris d’Hanswyck and Paul Van Stalle.
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Botanical Garden of Brussels
The Botanical Garden of Brussels (Jardin botanique de Bruxelles; Kruidtuin van Brussel) is a former botanical garden in Brussels, Belgium.
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Boule et Bill
Boule et Bill (known in English as Billy & Buddy) is a popular comic, created in 1959 by Belgian writer-artist Jean Roba in collaboration with Maurice Rosy.
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Bourgeois of Brussels
In Brussels, as in most European cities, one needed the capacity of bourgeois (equivalent to German burgher or English burgess; in French bourgeois or citoyen de Bruxelles; in Dutch poorter or borger van Brussel; in Latin civis or oppidanus Bruxellensis) in order to not only exercise political rights, but also to practice a trade, which, in Brussels, meant to be a member of the Guilds or of the Seven Noble Houses.
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Bpost
Bpost (stylised bpost), also known as the Belgian Post Group, is the Belgian company responsible for the delivery of national and international mail.
Brabant Road
The Brabant Road (Brabanter Straße), Cologne to Leipzig Road (Köln-Leipziger Straße) or Liege Road (Lütticher Straße) is an ancient road which, during the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, was one of the most important continental east-west oriented military and trade routes.
Brabantian dialect
Brabantian or Brabantish, also Brabantic or Brabantine (Brabants, Standard Dutch pronunciation), is a dialect group of the Dutch language. Brussels and Brabantian dialect are Brabant.
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Brabantine Gothic
Brabantine Gothic, occasionally called Brabantian Gothic, is a significant variant of Gothic architecture that is typical for the Low Countries.
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Brasserie
In France, Flanders, and the Francophone world, a brasserie is a type of French restaurant with a relaxed setting, which serves single dishes and other meals.
Breda
Breda is a city and municipality in the southern part of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Brabant.
Bremen
Bremen (Low German also: Breem or Bräm), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (Stadtgemeinde Bremen), is the capital of the German state of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (Freie Hansestadt Bremen), a two-city-state consisting of the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven.
Brewing
Brewing is the production of beer by steeping a starch source (commonly cereal grains, the most popular of which is barley) in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
British School of Brussels
The British School of Brussels (commonly abbreviated to BSB), is an international school in Belgium.
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Bronze
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids, such as arsenic or silicon.
Bruges
Bruges (Brugge; Brügge) is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country.
Brusselian dialect
Brusselian (also known as Brusseleer, Brusselair, Brusseleir, Marols or Marollien) is a Dutch dialect native to Brussels, Belgium.
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Brusselization
In urban planning, Brusselization (UK and US) or Brusselisation (UK variant) (bruxellisation, verbrusseling) is "the indiscriminate and careless introduction of modern high-rise buildings into gentrified neighbourhoods" and has become a byword for "haphazard urban development and redevelopment." The notion applies to anywhere whose development follows the pattern of the uncontrolled development of Brussels in the 1960s and 1970s, that resulted from a lack of zoning regulations and the city authorities' laissez-faire approach to city planning.
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Brussels Agreement (2013)
The First Agreement of Principles Governing the Normalisation of Relations, informally known as the Brussels Agreement (Бриселски споразум / Briselski sporazum, Marrëveshja e Brukselit), is an agreement to normalize relations between the governments of Serbia and Kosovo.
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Brussels Airport
Brussels Airport (Luchthaven Brussel, Aéroport de Bruxelles) — also informally called Brussels-National Airport (Luchthaven Brussel-Nationaal, Aéroport de Bruxelles-National) or Brussels-Zaventem Airport (Luchthaven Brussel-Zaventem, Aéroport de Bruxelles-Zaventem) — is an international airport in the municipality of Zaventem in Flemish Brabant, northeast of Brussels, Belgium.
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Brussels and the European Union
Brussels (Belgium) is considered the de facto capital of the European Union, having a long history of hosting a number of principal EU institutions within its European Quarter.
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Brussels buses
The Brussels buses network is complementary to the rail network in Brussels, Belgium, which consists of trams, trains, and metro trains.
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Brussels City Museum
The Brussels City Museum (Musée de la Ville de Bruxelles; Museum van de Stad Brussel) is a municipal museum on the Grand-Place/Grote Markt of Brussels, Belgium.
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Brussels Cycling Classic
The Brussels Cycling Classic (known until June 2013 as Paris–Brussels) is a semi classic European bicycle race, one of the oldest races on the international calendar.
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Brussels Expo
The Brussels Exhibition Centre (Parc des Expositions de Bruxelles; Tentoonstellingspark van Brussel), also known as Brussels Expo, is the primary event complex in Brussels, Belgium.
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Brussels Intercommunal Transport Company
The Brussels Intercommunal Transport Company (Société des Transports Intercommunaux de Bruxelles or italic; Maatschappij voor het Intercommunaal Vervoer te Brussel or italic) is the local public transport operator in Brussels, Belgium.
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Brussels International Exposition (1897)
The Brussels International Exposition (Exposition Internationale de Bruxelles, Wereldtentoonstelling te Brussel) of 1897 was a world's fair held in Brussels, Belgium, from 10 May 1897 through 8 November 1897.
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Brussels International Exposition (1910)
The Brussels International Exposition (Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles, Wereldtentoonstelling te Brussel) of 1910 was a world's fair held in Brussels, Belgium, from 23 April to 1 November 1910.
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Brussels International Exposition (1935)
The Brussels International Exposition of 1935 (Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles de 1935, Brusselse Wereldtentoonstelling van 1935) was a world's fair held between 27 April and 6 November 1935 on the Heysel/Heizel Plateau in Brussels, Belgium.
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Brussels Islamic State terror cell
The Brussels Islamic State terror cell was a group involved in large-scale terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015 (130 killed) and Brussels in March 2016 (32 killed).
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Brussels Marathon
The Brussels Marathon is an annual AIMS-certified marathon held in Brussels, Belgium, first held in 1984, and usually held in the autumn.
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Brussels Metro
The Brussels Metro (Métro de Bruxelles, Brusselse metro) is a rapid transit system serving a large part of the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium.
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Brussels Metro line 2
Line 2 on the Brussels Metro is a rapid transit line in Brussels, Belgium operated by STIB/MIVB.
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Brussels Park
Brussels Park (Parc de Bruxelles,; Warandepark) is the largest urban public park in central Brussels, Belgium.
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Brussels Periphery
The Brussels Periphery (i.e. the "Brussels Rim", or Vlaamse Rand, i.e. the "Flemish Rim", or just De Rand, "the Rim") refers to 19 Flemish municipalities that encircle the Brussels-Capital Region.
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Brussels Philharmonic
The Brussels Philharmonic is a Belgian radio orchestra located in Brussels.
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Brussels Planetarium
The Brussels Planetarium (Planétarium de Bruxelles; Planetarium van Brussel) of the Royal Observatory of Belgium is a planetarium located on the Heysel/Heizel Plateau in Laeken (northern part of the City of Brussels).
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Brussels Ring
The Brussels Ring (Brusselse Ring, Ring de Bruxelles), numbered R0, is a ring road surrounding the Brussels-Capital Region, as well as other smaller towns south of Brussels.
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Brussels S Train
The Brussels S Train, also known as the Brussels Regional Express Network (Réseau Express Régional Bruxellois or RER; Gewestelijk ExpresNet or GEN) is a suburban rail system in and around the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium.
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Brussels School of International Studies
The University of Kent's Brussels School of International Studies is a specialised postgraduate school offering international studies in Brussels, Belgium.
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Brussels South Charleroi Airport
Brussels South Charleroi Airport (BSCA), also informally called Brussels-Charleroi Airport or Charleroi Airport, is an international airport located in Gosselies, a part of the city of Charleroi, Belgium.
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Brussels sprout
The Brussels sprout is a member of the Gemmifera cultivar group of cabbages (Brassica oleracea), grown for its edible buds.
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Brussels Stock Exchange
The Brussels Stock Exchange (Bourse de Bruxelles; Beurs van Brussel), abbreviated to BSE, was founded in Brussels, Belgium, by decree of Napoleon in 1801.
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Brussels tapestry
Brussels tapestry workshops produced tapestry from at least the 15th century, but the city's early production in the Late Gothic International style was eclipsed by the more prominent tapestry-weaving workshops based in Arras and Tournai.
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Brussels Town Hall
The Town Hall (Hôtel de Ville; Dutch) of the City of Brussels is a landmark building and the seat of the City of Brussels municipality of Brussels, Belgium.
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Brussels' Comic Book Route
Brussels' Comic Book Route (Parcours BD de Bruxelles; Striproute van Brussel) is a path composed by several comic strip murals, which cover the walls of several buildings throughout the inner City of Brussels, as well as the neighbourhoods of Laeken and Auderghem.
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Brussels-Central railway station
Brussels-Central railway station (Gare de Bruxelles-Central; Station Brussel-Centraal) is a railway and metro station in central Brussels, Belgium.
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Brussels-Chapel railway station
Brussels-Chapel railway station (Gare de Bruxelles-Chapelle; Station Brussel-Kapellekerk) is a railway station on the North–South connection in the City of Brussels, Belgium.
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Brussels-Congress railway station
Brussels-Congress railway station (Gare de Bruxelles-Congrès; Station Brussel-Congres) is a train stop on the North–South connection in the City of Brussels, Belgium.
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Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde
Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde is a judicial arrondissement encompasses the bilingual—French and Dutch—Brussels-Capital Region, which coincides with the administrative arrondissement of Brussels-Capital and the surrounding Dutch-speaking area of Halle-Vilvoorde, which in turn coincides with the administrative arrondissement of Halle-Vilvoorde.
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Brussels-Luxembourg railway station
Brussels-Luxembourg railway station (Gare de Bruxelles-Luxembourg; Station Brussel-Luxemburg) is a railway station in the European Quarter of Brussels, Belgium, under the Esplanade of the European Parliament (part of the European Parliament complex).
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Brussels-North railway station
Brussels-North railway station (Gare de Bruxelles-Nord; Station Brussel-Noord) is one of the three major railway stations in Brussels, Belgium; the other two are Brussels-Central and Brussels-South.
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Brussels-South railway station
Brussels-South railway station (Gare de Bruxelles-Midi; Station Brussel-Zuid) is a major railway station in Brussels, Belgium.
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Brussels-West station
Brussels-West Station (Gare de l'Ouest; Weststation) is a multimodal transport hub located in the municipality of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, in the western part of Brussels, Belgium.
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Brussels–Charleroi Canal
The Brussels–Charleroi Canal (Canal Bruxelles-Charleroi; Kanaal Brussel-Charleroi), also known as the Charleroi Canal amongst other similar names, is an important canal in Belgium.
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Brussels–Scheldt Maritime Canal
The Brussels–Scheldt Maritime Canal (Canal maritime de Bruxelles à l'Escaut; Zeekanaal Brussel-Schelde), also known as the Willebroek Canal amongst other similar names, is an important canal in Belgium.
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Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Burgundian Netherlands
In the history of the Low Countries, the Burgundian Netherlands (Burgundiae Belgicae, Pays-Bas bourguignons., Bourgondische Nederlanden, Burgundesch Nidderlanden, Bas Payis borguignons) or the Burgundian Age is the period between 1384 and 1482, during which a growing part of the Low Countries was ruled by the Dukes of Burgundy.
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Burundi
Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa. Brussels and Burundi are french-speaking countries and territories.
Business
Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services).
By-law
A by-law (bye-law, by(e)law, by(e) law), also known in the United States as bylaws, is a set of rules or law established by an organization or community so as to regulate itself, as allowed or provided for by some higher authority.
C&A
C&A is a multinational chain of retail clothing stores that originated in the Netherlands.
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Cambrai
Cambrai (Kimbré; Kamerijk), formerly Cambray and historically in English Camerick or Camericke, is a city in the Nord department and in the Hauts-de-France region of France on the Scheldt river, which is known locally as the Escaut river.
Canal inclined plane
An inclined plane is a type of cable railway used on some canals for raising boats between different water levels.
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Cantillon (brewery)
Brasserie-Brouwerij Cantillon ("Brewery Cantillon") is a small Belgian traditional family brewery based in Anderlecht, Brussels.
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Capital city
A capital city or just capital is the municipality holding primary status in a country, state, province, department, or other subnational division, usually as its seat of the government.
Casablanca
Casablanca (lit) is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre.
Cathedral
A cathedral is a church that contains the of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate.
Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula
The Cathedral of St.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Cauchie House
The Cauchie House (Maison Cauchie; Cauchiehuis) is a historic town house in Brussels, Belgium.
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Côte d'Or (chocolate)
Côte d'Or is a producer of Belgian chocolate, owned by Mondelez International.
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Celtic languages
The Celtic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family, descended from Proto-Celtic.
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Central business district
A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business center of a city.
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Central European Summer Time
Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+02:00), sometimes referred to as Central European Daylight Time (CEDT), is the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00) during the other part of the year.
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Central European Time
Central European Time (CET) is a standard time of Central, and parts of Western Europe, which is one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
The Centre for Fine Arts (Palais des Beaux-Arts; Paleis voor Schone Kunsten) is a multi-purpose cultural venue in the Royal Quarter of Brussels, Belgium.
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Channel Tunnel
The Channel Tunnel (Tunnel sous la Manche), sometimes referred to informally as the Chunnel, is a undersea railway tunnel, opened in 1994, that connects Folkestone (Kent, England) with Coquelles (Pas-de-Calais, France) beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.
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Charleroi
Charleroi (Tchålerwè) is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
Charles the Bold
Charles Martin (10 November 1433 – 5 January 1477), called The Bold, was the last Duke of Burgundy from the Burgundian cadet branch of the House of Valois from 1467 to 1477.
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Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V (Ghent, 24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to 1555.
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Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine
Charles (953 – 22 June 992×995) was the duke of Lower Lorraine from 977 until his death.
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Chicory
Common chicory (Cichorium intybus) is a somewhat woody, perennial herbaceous plant of the family Asteraceae, usually with bright blue flowers, rarely white or pink.
Chocolate
Chocolate or cocoa is a food made from roasted and ground cocoa seed kernels that is available as a liquid, solid, or paste, either on its own or as a flavoring agent in other foods.
Chocolatier
A chocolatier is a person or company who makes confectioneries from chocolate.
Church of Our Lady of Laeken
The Church of Our Lady of Laeken (Église Notre-Dame de Laeken; Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk van Laken) is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Brussels district of Laeken, Belgium.
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Church of St. Augustine, Forest
The Church of St.
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Church of St. James on Coudenberg
The Church of St.
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Church of St. John the Baptist, Molenbeek
The Church of St.
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Cinquantenaire
The Parc du Cinquantenaire (French for "Park of the Fiftieth Anniversary", pronounced) or Jubelpark (Dutch for "Jubilee Park", pronounced) is a large public, urban park of in the easternmost part of the European Quarter in Brussels, Belgium.
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Cinquantenaire Arcade
The Cinquantenaire Arcade (Arcade(s) du Cinquantenaire; Arcade(s) van het Jubelpark) is a memorial arcade in the centre of the Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark in Brussels, Belgium.
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Cirque Royal
The Cirque Royal (French) or Koninklijk Circus (Dutch), meaning "Royal Circus", is an entertainment venue in Brussels, Belgium.
City of Brussels
The City of Brussels is the largest municipality and historical centre of the Brussels-Capital Region, as well as the capital of the Flemish Region (from which it is separate) and Belgium.
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Civil service
The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil service personnel hired rather than elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership.
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Classic cycle races
The classic cycle races are the most prestigious one-day professional road cycling races in the international calendar.
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Classical music
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.
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Clothing in Africa
African clothing is the traditional clothing worn by the people of Africa.
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Co-cathedral
A co-cathedral is a cathedral church which shares the function of being a bishop's seat, or cathedra, with another cathedral, often in another city (usually a former see, anchor city of the metropolitan area or the civil capital).
Coffeehouse
A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or café is an establishment that serves various types of coffee, espresso, latte, americano and cappuccino.
Cologne
Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.
The Common Community Commission (Commission communautaire commune, Gemeenschappelijke Gemeenschapscommissie) is responsible for Brussels community matters that are common to both the French Community and the Flemish Community and for institutions that fall within the competencies of the Communities but do not belong exclusively to either Community in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium.
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Communards
The Communards were members and supporters of the short-lived 1871 Paris Commune formed in the wake of the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War.
Communities, regions, and language areas of Belgium
Belgium is a federal state comprising three communities and three regions that are based on four language areas. Brussels and communities, regions, and language areas of Belgium are NUTS 1 statistical regions of the European Union and regions of Belgium.
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Commuting
Commuting is periodically recurring travel between a place of residence and place of work or study, where the traveler, referred to as a commuter, leaves the boundary of their home community.
Congress Column
The Congress Column (Colonne du Congrès; Congreskolom) is a monumental column in Brussels, Belgium, commemorating the creation of the Belgian Constitution by the National Congress of 1830–31.
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Congress of Vienna
The Congress of Vienna of 1814–1815 was a series of international diplomatic meetings to discuss and agree upon a possible new layout of the European political and constitutional order after the downfall of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Constant Vanden Stock Stadium
The Constant Vanden Stock Stadium (Stade Constant Vanden Stock, Constant Vanden Stockstadion), also known as the Lotto Park for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in the municipality of Anderlecht in Brussels, Belgium.
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Constitution of Belgium
The Constitution of Belgium (Belgische Grondwet, Constitution belge, Verfassung Belgiens) dates back to 1831.
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Constitutional Court (Belgium)
The Constitutional Court (Dutch:, Cour constitutionelle, Verfassungsgerichtshof) plays a central role within the federal Belgian state.
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Conurbation
A conurbation is a region comprising a number of metropolises, cities, large towns, and other urban areas which, through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban or industrially developed area.
Couleur Café
Couleur Café Festival is an annual urban contemporary music festival taking place around the end of June or early July in the city of Brussels, Belgium, organised since 1990.
Council of Ministers (Belgium)
The Council of Ministers (Conseil des ministres; Ministerraad) is the supreme executive organ of the Federal Government of the Kingdom of Belgium.
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Council of State (Belgium)
Council of State (Dutch:, Conseil d'État, Staatsrat), is the supreme administrative court of Belgium.
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Council of the European Union
The Council of the European Union, often referred to in the treaties and other official documents simply as the Council, and informally known as the Council of Ministers, is the third of the seven Institutions of the European Union (EU) as listed in the Treaty on European Union.
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Counts of Louvain
The Counts of Louvain were a branch of the Lotharingian House of Reginar which from the late 10th century ruled over the estates of Louvain (French) or Leuven (Dutch) in Lower Lorraine.
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County of Flanders
The County of Flanders was one of the most powerful political entities in the medieval Low Countries, located on the North Sea coast of what is now Belgium.
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Court of Audit of Belgium
The Court of Audit of Belgium (Dutch:, French: Cour des comptes, German: Rechnungshof) is a Belgian governmental institution established by article 180 of the Belgian Constitution.
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Court of Cassation (Belgium)
The Court of Cassation (Hof van Cassatie, Cour de cassation, Kassationshof) of Belgium is the supreme court of the Belgian judiciary.
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Covering of the Senne
The covering of the Senne (Voûtement de la Senne; Overwelving van de Zenne) was the covering and later diverting of the main river of Brussels, Belgium, and the construction of public buildings and major boulevards in its place.
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Craft
A craft or trade is a pastime or an occupation that requires particular skills and knowledge of skilled work.
Crystal
A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents (such as atoms, molecules, or ions) are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions.
Cubitus
Cubitus is a Franco-Belgian comics series, and the basis for the Wowser cartoon series appearing in the United States.
Cultural assimilation
Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assimilates the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially.
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Cupola
In architecture, a cupola is a relatively small, most often dome-like, tall structure on top of a building.
Cycle sport
Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles.
Daniel Auber
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (29 January 178212 May 1871) was a French composer and director of the Paris Conservatoire.
DéFI
DéFI (abbreviation of Démocrate fédéraliste indépendant) is a social-liberal and regionalist political party in Belgium mainly known for defending French-speakers' interests in and near the Brussels region.
De facto
De facto describes practices that exist in reality, regardless of whether they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms.
De jure
In law and government, de jure describes practices that are legally recognized, regardless of whether the practice exists in reality.
De Lijn
Vlaamse Vervoersmaatschappij De Lijn (English: Flemish transport company De Lijn), usually known as De Lijn ("The Line"), is a company run by the Flemish government in Belgium to provide public transportation with about 2240 buses and 399 trams.
De Morgen
De Morgen (Dutch for The Morning) is a Flemish newspaper with a circulation of 53,860.
De Standaard
() is a Flemish daily newspaper published in Belgium by Mediahuis (formerly Corelio and VUM).
Decree
A decree is a legal proclamation, usually issued by a head of state, judge, royal figure, or other relevant authorities, according to certain procedures.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa. Brussels and Democratic Republic of the Congo are french-speaking countries and territories.
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Demographics of Belgium
Demographic features of the population of Belgium include ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects.
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Demonym
A demonym or gentilic is a word that identifies a group of people (inhabitants, residents, natives) in relation to a particular place.
Diamond League
The Diamond League is an annual series of elite track and field athletic competitions comprising fifteen of the best invitational athletics meetings.
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Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.
Diplomacy
Diplomacy comprises spoken or written communication by representatives of state, intergovernmental, or non-governmental institutions intended to influence events in the international system.
Diplomatic mission
A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host state.
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Dolmen
A dolmen or portal tomb is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table".
Drogenbos
Drogenbos is a municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in the Flemish region of Belgium.
Duchy of Brabant
The Duchy of Brabant, a state of the Holy Roman Empire, was established in 1183.
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Duke of Brabant
The Duke of Brabant was the ruler of the Duchy of Brabant since 1183/1184.
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Duke of Burgundy
Duke of Burgundy (duc de Bourgogne) was a title used by the rulers of the Duchy of Burgundy, from its establishment in 843 to its annexation by the French crown in 1477, and later by members of the House of Habsburg, including Holy Roman Emperors and kings of Spain, who claimed Burgundy proper and ruled the Burgundian Netherlands.
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Dutch language
Dutch (Nederlands.) is a West Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language.
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Dutch orthography
Dutch orthography uses the Latin alphabet.
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Dyle (department)
Dyle (Dijle) was a department of the French First Republic and French First Empire in present-day Belgium.
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East Flanders
East Flanders (Oost-Vlaanderen, Flandre-Orientale, Ostflandern, Ôost-Vloandern) is a province of Belgium.
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Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.
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Eastern Orthodox Church
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.
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Eclecticism in architecture
Eclecticism is a 19th and 20th century architectural style in which a single piece of work incorporates a mixture of elements from previous historical styles to create something that is new and original.
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Ecolo
Ecolo, officially Écologistes Confédérés pour l'organisation de luttes originales (English: Confederate Ecologists for the Organisation of Original Struggles) is a French-speaking political party in Belgium based on green politics.
Egmont Palace
The Egmont Palace (Palais d'Egmont,; Egmontpaleis), also sometimes known as the Arenberg Palace (Palais d'Arenberg; Arenbergpaleis), is a neoclassical palace in Brussels, Belgium.
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Elevation
The elevation of a geographic ''location'' is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic datum § Vertical datum).
Enclave and exclave
An enclave is a territory that is entirely surrounded by the territory of only one other state or entity. Brussels and enclave and exclave are enclaves and exclaves.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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Espace Léopold
The Espace Léopold (French; commonly used in English) or Leopoldruimte (Dutch) is the complex of parliament buildings in Brussels, Belgium, housing the European Parliament, a legislative chamber of the European Union (EU).
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Etterbeek
Etterbeek is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium.
Etterbeek railway station
Etterbeek railway station (Gare d'Etterbeek; Station Etterbeek) is a railway station in Brussels, Belgium, operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB).
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Eurocontrol
The European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, commonly known as Eurocontrol (stylised EUROCONTROL), is an international organisation working to achieve safe and seamless air traffic management across Europe.
Euronews
Euronews (stylised in lowercase) is a European television news network, headquartered in Lyon, France.
Euronext
Euronext N.V. (short for European New Exchange Technology) is a pan-European bourse that provides trading and post-trade services for a range of financial instruments.
Euronext Amsterdam
Euronext Amsterdam is a stock exchange based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Euronext Lisbon
Euronext Lisbon is a stock exchange in Lisbon, Portugal.
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Euronext Paris
Euronext Paris, formerly known as the Paris Bourse, is a securities market which merged with the Amsterdam, Lisbon and Brussels exchanges in September 2000 to form Euronext NV.
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Europa building
The Europa building is the seat of the European Council and Council of the European Union, located on the Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat in the European Quarter of Brussels, Belgium.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
European Capital of Culture
A European Capital of Culture is a city designated by the European Union (EU) for a period of one calendar year during which it organises a series of cultural events with a strong pan-European dimension.
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European Commission
The European Commission (EC) is the primary executive arm of the European Union (EU).
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European Council
The European Council (informally EUCO) is a collegiate body (directorial system) that defines the overall political direction and priorities of the European Union.
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European Heritage Days
European Heritage Days (EHD) is a joint action of the Council of Europe and the European Commission involving all 50 signatory states of the European Cultural Convention under the motto, Europe: a common heritage.
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European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions.
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European route E19
European route E19 is a long European route.
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European route E40
European route E40 is the longest European route, more than long, connecting Calais in France via Belgium, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan, with Ridder in Kazakhstan near the border with Russia and China.
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European route E411
European route E411 is a European route in Belgium and France connecting Brussels to Metz via Namur and Arlon.
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European School
A European School (Schola Europaea) is a type of international school emphasising a multilingual and multicultural pedagogical approach to the teaching of nursery, primary and secondary students, leading to the European Baccalaureate as their secondary leaving qualification.
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European Schools
The European Schools (Schola Europaea) is an intergovernmental organisation, which has established, financed, and administered a small group of multilingual international schools, bearing the title "European School", which exist primarily to offer an education to the children of European Union (EU) staff; offers accreditation to other schools, bearing the title "Accredited European School", under national jurisdiction within EU member states to provide its curriculum; and oversees the provision of the secondary school leaving diploma, the European Baccalaureate.
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European Trade Union Confederation
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) is the major trade union organisation representing workers at the European level.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Eurostar
Eurostar is an international high-speed rail service in Western Europe, connecting Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Evere
Evere is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region (Belgium).
Evere railway station
Evere railway station (Gare d'Evere; Station Evere) is a railway station in the municipality of Evere in Brussels, Belgium.
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Expatriate
An expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person who resides outside their country of citizenship.
Expo 58
Expo 58, also known as the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles de 1958, Brusselse Wereldtentoonstelling van 1958), was a world's fair held on the Heysel/Heizel Plateau in Brussels, Belgium, from 17 April to 19 October 1958.
Fast-food restaurant
A fast-food restaurant, also known as a quick-service restaurant (QSR) within the industry, is a specific type of restaurant that serves fast-food cuisine and has minimal table service.
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Federal district
A federal district is a specific administrative division in one of various federations.
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Federal Public Planning Service Science Policy
The Federal Public Planning Service Science Policy (Programmatorische Federale Overheidsdienst Wetenschapsbeleid; Service public fédéral de programmation Politique scientifique; Föderaler Öffentlicher Programmierungsdienst Wissenschaftspolitik) or Belgian Science Policy Office, Federal Science Policy, known by the acronym BELSPO, is the federal government body responsible for research policy in Belgium.
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Federalism
Federalism is a mode of government that combines a general government (the central or federal government) with regional governments (provincial, state, cantonal, territorial, or other sub-unit governments) in a single political system, dividing the powers between the two.
Finance Tower
The Finance Tower (Tour des Finances; Financietoren) is a skyscraper in the Northern Quarter central business district of Brussels, Belgium.
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Finance&invest.brussels
finance&invest.brussels (formerly) was founded by the Brussels-Capital Region in 1984 to provide capital to the Brussels-Capital Region industry.
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Fire department
A fire department (North American English) or fire brigade (Commonwealth English), also known as a fire company, fire authority, fire district, fire and rescue, or fire service in some areas, is an organization that provides fire prevention and fire suppression services as well as other rescue services.
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Fire station
A fire station (also called a fire house, fire hall, firemen's hall, or engine house) is a structure or other area for storing firefighting apparatuses such as fire engines and related vehicles, personal protective equipment, fire hoses and other specialized equipment.
Firefighter
A firefighter (or fire fighter) is a first responder trained in firefighting, primarily to control and extinguish fires that threaten life and property, as well as to rescue persons from confinement or dangerous situations.
Flagey Building
The Flagey Building (Bâtiment Flagey, Flageygebouw) also known as the Radio House (Maison de la Radio, Radiohuis) is a building located in Ixelles, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium, housing the Flagey cultural centre.
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Flamboyant
Flamboyant is a lavishly-decorated style of Gothic architecture that appeared in France and Spain in the 15th century, and lasted until the mid-sixteenth century and the beginning of the Renaissance.
Flanders
Flanders (Dutch: Vlaanderen) is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium. Brussels and Flanders are autonomous regions and regions of Belgium.
Flea market
A flea market (or swap meet) is a type of street market that provides space for vendors to sell previously owned (second-hand) goods.
Flemish Brabant
Flemish Brabant (Vlaams-Brabant; Brabant flamand) is a province of Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium. Brussels and Flemish Brabant are Brabant.
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The Flemish Community is one of the three institutional communities of Belgium, established by the Belgian constitution and having legal responsibilities only within the precise geographical boundaries of the Dutch-language area and of the bilingual area of Brussels-Capital.
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The Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie (or VGC, or, in English, the Flemish Community Commission) is the local representative of the Flemish authorities in the Brussels-Capital Region, one of the three regions of Belgium.
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Flemish Diamond
The Flemish Diamond (Vlaamse Ruit) is the Flemish reference to a network of four metropolitan areas in Belgium, three of which are in the central provinces of Flanders, together with the Brussels-Capital Region.
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Flemish Government
The Flemish Government (Vlaamse regering) is the executive branch of the Flemish Community and the Flemish Region of Belgium.
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Flemish painting
Flemish painting flourished from the early 15th century until the 17th century, gradually becoming distinct from the painting of the rest of the Low Countries, especially the modern Netherlands.
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Flemish Parliament
The Flemish Parliament (Dutch:, formerly called Flemish Council or Vlaamse Raad) constitutes the legislative power in Flanders for matters which fall within the competence of Flanders, both as a geographic region and as a cultural community of Belgium (unlike the French Community and Wallonia, which each have separate legislatures: the Parliament of the French Community and the Parliament of Wallonia).
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Flemish people
Flemish people or Flemings (Vlamingen) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Flanders, Belgium, who speak Flemish Dutch.
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Flemish Region
The Flemish Region (Vlaams Gewest), usually simply referred to as Flanders (Vlaanderen), is one of the three regions of Belgium—alongside the Walloon Region and the Brussels-Capital Region. Brussels and Flemish Region are NUTS 1 statistical regions of the European Union and regions of Belgium.
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Flower Carpet (Brussels)
The Flower Carpet (Tapis de Fleurs; Bloementapijt) is a biennial event in Brussels in which volunteers from around Belgium convene at the Grand-Place/Grote Markt, the historic centre of the city, to weave a carpet-like tapestry out of colourful begonias.
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Forest Municipal Hall
The Municipal Hall (Hôtel communal; Gemeentehuis) of Forest is the municipal hall building and the seat of that municipality of Brussels, Belgium.
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Forest National
Forest National (French) or Vorst Nationaal (Dutch) is a multi-purpose arena located in the municipality of Forest in Brussels, Belgium.
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Forest Park, Brussels
Forest Park (Parc de Forest) or Vorst Park (Park van Vorst) is a public park located in and named after the municipality of Forest in Brussels, Belgium.
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Forest, Belgium
italic (French) or italic (Dutch), is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium.
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Forest-East railway station
Forest-East railway station (Gare de Forest-Est; Station Vorst-Oost) is a railway station in the municipality of Forest in Brussels, Belgium.
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Forest-South railway station
Forest-South railway station (Gare de Forest-Midi; Station Vorst-Zuid) is a railway station in the municipality of Forest in Brussels, Belgium, opened in 1862.
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Fortifications of Brussels
The Fortifications of Brussels (Fortifications de Bruxelles; Vestingwerken van Brussel) refers to the medieval city walls that surrounded Brussels, Belgium, built primarily to defend the city but also for administrative reasons.
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Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
François-Joseph Fétis
François-Joseph Fétis (25 March 1784 – 26 March 1871) was a Belgian musicologist, critic, teacher and composer.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Brussels and France are french-speaking countries and territories.
France 2
France 2 is a French public national television channel.
Francia
The Kingdom of the Franks (Regnum Francorum), also known as the Frankish Kingdom, the Frankish Empire (Imperium Francorum) or Francia, was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe.
Francization
Francization (in American English, Canadian English, and Oxford English) or Francisation (in other British English), also known as Frenchification, is the expansion of French language use—either through willful adoption or coercion—by more and more social groups who had not before used the language as a common means of expression in daily life.
Francization of Brussels
The Francization of Brussels refers to the evolution, over the past two centuries, of this historically Dutch-speaking city into one where French has become the majority language and lingua franca.
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Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main ("Frank ford on the Main") is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse.
Frankish language
Frankish (reconstructed endonym: *italic), also known as Old Franconian or Old Frankish, was the West Germanic language spoken by the Franks from the 5th to 9th century.
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Free University of Brussels (1834–1969)
The Free University of Brussels (Université libre de Bruxelles, or ULB; Vrije Hogeschool te Brussel, later Vrije Universiteit Brussel) was a university in Brussels, Belgium.
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The Commission communautaire française (COCOF) or the French Community Commission is the local representative of the French-speaking authorities in the Brussels-Capital Region, one of the three regions of Belgium.
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In Belgium, the French Community (Communauté française) refers to one of the three constituent constitutional linguistic communities. Brussels and French Community of Belgium are french-speaking countries and territories.
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French cuisine
French cuisine is the cooking traditions and practices from France.
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French fries
French fries (North American English & British English), and chips (British and other national varieties), finger chips (Indian English), french-fried potatoes, or simply fries are batonnet or allumette-cut deep-fried potatoes of disputed origin from Belgium or France.
French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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French orthography
French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.
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Friterie
A, or in French-speaking Belgium and Northern France, or or frietkot in Flanders and the Netherlands, also fritkot in French-speaking Belgium and friture or frietkraam in the Netherlands, is a traditional restaurant, kiosk or van serving quick-service fast food, particularly fries from which they derive their name.
Ganshoren
Ganshoren is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium.
Gaston (comics)
Gaston is a Belgian gag-a-day comic strip created in 1957 by the Belgian cartoonist André Franquin in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Spirou.
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Gaugericus
Saint Gaugericus, in French Saint Géry (also known as Gorik, Gau; in Walloon, Djèri) (550 – August 11, 619) was a bishop of Cambrai, France.
Geert van Istendael
Geert van Istendael (born 29 March 1947) is the pseudonym of Geert Maria Mauritius Julianus Vanistendael, a Belgian writer, poet and essayist.
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Geographic top-level domain
A geographic top-level domain (often shortened as geographic TLD or geoTLD) is any of an unofficial group of top-level domains in the Domain Name System of the Internet using the name of or invoking an association with a geographical, geopolitical, ethnic, linguistic or cultural community.
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Georges Ernest Boulanger
Georges Ernest Jean-Marie Boulanger (29 April 1837 – 30 September 1891), nicknamed Général Revanche ("General Revenge"), was a French general and politician.
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German occupation of Belgium during World War I
The German occupation of Belgium (Occupation allemande, Duitse bezetting) of World War I was a military occupation of Belgium by the forces of the German Empire between 1914 and 1918.
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German occupation of Belgium during World War II
The German occupation of Belgium (Occupation allemande, Duitse bezetting) during World War II began on 28 May 1940, when the Belgian army surrendered to German forces, and lasted until Belgium's liberation by the Western Allies between September 1944 and February 1945.
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Ghent
Ghent (Gent; Gand; historically known as Gaunt in English) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.
Ghetto
A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group are concentrated, especially as a result of political, social, legal, religious, environmental or economic pressure.
Global city
A global city, also known as a power city, world city, alpha city, or world center, is a city that serves as a primary node in the global economic network. The concept originates from geography and urban studies, based on the thesis that globalization has created a hierarchy of strategic geographic locations with varying degrees of influence over finance, trade, and culture worldwide.
Global Financial Centres Index
The Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI) is a ranking of the competitiveness of financial centres based on over 29,000 financial centre assessments from an online questionnaire together with over 100 indices from organisations such as the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the Economist Intelligence Unit.
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Godiva Chocolatier
Godiva Chocolatier is a Belgian-based international chocolate maker which is owned by Turkish conglomerate Yıldız Holding.
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Gosselies
Gosselies (Gochliye) is a town of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Charleroi, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
Gothic architecture
Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas.
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Gothic Revival architecture
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England.
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The Cabinet of the French Community of Belgium (Gouvernement de la Communauté française) is the executive branch of the French Community of Belgium, and it sits in Brussels.
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Governor of the Administrative Arrondissement Brussels-Capital
Until 2014, the Governor of the Administrative Arrondissement of Brussels-Capital (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (French: Gouverneur de Bruxelles-Capitale, Dutch: Gouverneur van Brussel-Hoofdstad) has the responsibility to enforce laws concerned with public order in the Brussels-Capital Region, one of the three regions of Belgium.
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Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
Grand Prix Eddy Merckx was a cycle race around Brussels, where Eddy Merckx was born.
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Grand-Place
The italic ("Grand Square"; also used in English) or italic ("Big Market") is the central square of Brussels, Belgium.
Great Mosque of Brussels
The Great Mosque of Brussels (Grande mosquée de Bruxelles; Grote Moskee van Brussel) is located in the Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark.
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Greater Ring, Brussels
The Greater Ring or Intermediate Ring in Brussels, Belgium (French: Moyenne Ceinture, Dutch: Middenring) is a set of roads in the shape of a ring, intermediate between the Small Ring and the main Brussels Ring motorway.
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Groen (political party)
Groen, founded as Agalev, is a green Flemish political party in Belgium.
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Gross domestic product
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.
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Guards Armoured Division
The Guards Armoured Division was an armoured division of the British Army during the Second World War.
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Gudula
Saint Gudula was born in the pagus of Brabant (in present-day Belgium).
Guildhall
A guildhall, also known as a "guild hall" or "guild house", is a historical building originally used for tax collecting by municipalities or merchants in Europe, with many surviving today in Great Britain and the Low Countries.
Guilds of Brussels
The Guilds of Brussels (Guildes de Bruxelles; Gilden van Brussel), grouped in the Nine Nations of Brussels (Neuf Nations de Bruxelles; Negen Naties van Brussel), were associations of craft guilds that dominated the economic life of Brussels in the late medieval and early modern periods.
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Gustave Strauven
Gustave Strauven (23 June 1878 – 19 March 1919) was a Belgian architect of the Art Nouveau style.
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H&M
H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB is a multinational clothing company based in Sweden that focuses on fast-fashion clothing.
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Habsburg monarchy
The Habsburg monarchy, also known as Habsburg Empire, or Habsburg Realm, was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities that were ruled by the House of Habsburg.
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Habsburg Netherlands
Habsburg Netherlands was the Renaissance period fiefs in the Low Countries held by the Holy Roman Empire's House of Habsburg.
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Hainaut Province
Hainaut (also,,; Henegouwen; Hinnot; Hénau), historically also known as Heynault in English, is a province of Wallonia and Belgium.
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Halle Gate
The Halle Gate (Porte de Hal,; Hallepoort) is a former medieval city gate and the last vestige of the second walls of Brussels, Belgium.
Hamlet (place)
A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village.
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Haren railway station (Brussels)
Haren railway station (Gare de Haren; Station Haren) is a railway station on line 26 of the Belgian railway network.
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Haren, Belgium
Haren (sometimes written Haeren in French) is a former municipality of Brussels, Belgium, that was merged into the City of Brussels in 1921.
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Haren-South railway station
Haren-South railway station (Gare de Haren-Sud, Station Haren-Zuid) is a railway station on line 36 of the Belgian railway network.
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Haussmann's renovation of Paris
Haussmann's renovation of Paris was a vast public works programme commissioned by French Emperor Napoleon III and directed by his prefect of the Seine, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, between 1853 and 1870.
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Hazard
A hazard is a potential source of harm.
Hôtel Solvay
The Hôtel Solvay (Hôtel Solvay; Hotel Solvay) is a large historic town house in Brussels, Belgium.
Hôtel Tassel
The Hôtel Tassel (Hôtel Tassel; Hotel Tassel) is a historic town house in Brussels, Belgium.
Hôtel van Eetvelde
The Hôtel van Eetvelde (Hôtel van Eetvelde; Hotel van Eetvelde) is a historic town house in Brussels, Belgium.
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Health care
Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people.
Henry van de Velde
Henry Clemens van de Velde (3 April 1863 – 15 October 1957) was a Belgian painter, architect, interior designer, and art theorist.
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Heysel Plateau
The Heysel Plateau (Plateau du Heysel; Heizelplateau) or Heysel Park (Parc du Heysel; Heizelpark), usually shortened to Heysel or Heizel, is a neighbourhood, park and exhibition space in Laeken, northern Brussels, Belgium, where the Brussels International Exposition of 1935 and the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Expo 58) took place.
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Historia (newspaper)
Historia is a French monthly magazine devoted to History topics.
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History of rail transport in Belgium
Belgium was heavily involved in the early development of railway transport.
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Holy Roman Emperor
The Holy Roman Emperor, originally and officially the Emperor of the Romans (Imperator Romanorum, Kaiser der Römer) during the Middle Ages, and also known as the Roman-German Emperor since the early modern period (Imperator Germanorum, Roman-German emperor), was the ruler and head of state of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor.
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Horta Museum
The Horta Museum (Musée Horta; Hortamuseum) is a museum in Brussels, Belgium, dedicated to the life and work of the architect Victor Horta and his time.
House of Habsburg
The House of Habsburg (Haus Habsburg), also known as the House of Austria, was one of the most prominent and important dynasties in European history.
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House of Valois
The Capetian house of Valois (also) was a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty.
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Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.
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Human science
Human science (or human sciences in the plural) studies the philosophical, biological, social, justice, and cultural aspects of human life.
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Iguanodon
Iguanodon (meaning 'iguana-tooth'), named in 1825, is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur.
Impressionism
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.
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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.
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Infrabel
Infrabel is a Belgian government-owned public limited company.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure is the set of facilities and systems that serve a country, city, or other area, and encompasses the services and facilities necessary for its economy, households and firms to function.
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ING Arena
The ING Arena is an indoor arena in Brussels, Belgium, that is part of the Brussels Expo complex.
INRIX
INRIX is a private company headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, US.
Institute for the Encouragement of Scientific Research and Innovation of Brussels
The Institute for the Encouragement of Scientific Research and Innovation of Brussels or ISRIB (French: Institut d'Encouragement de la Recherche Scientifique et de l'Innovation de Bruxelles – IRSIB, Dutch: Instituut ter bevordering van het Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek en de Innovatie van Brussel – IWOIB) promotes scientific research and technological innovation in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium within companies, universities and higher education institutes within the region.
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Institutions of the European Union
The institutions of the European Union are the seven principal decision-making bodies of the European Union and the Euratom governed under the Treaties of the European Union and European Union law.
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Intangible cultural heritage
An intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is a practice, representation, expression, knowledge, or skill considered by UNESCO to be part of a place's cultural heritage.
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Intercity Express
Intercity Express (commonly known as ICE) is a high-speed rail system in Germany.
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International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) was an international trade union.
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International organization
An international organization, also known as an intergovernmental organization or an international institution, is an organization that is established by a treaty or other type of instrument governed by international law and possesses its own legal personality, such as the United Nations, the World Health Organization, International Union for Conservation of Nature, and NATO.
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International relations
International relations (IR) are the interactions among sovereign states.
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International school
An international school is an institution that promotes education in an international environment or framework.
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International School of Brussels
The International School of Brussels (ISB) is an English-language international school with grades spanning from pre-school to high school.
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International Style
The International Style or internationalism is a major architectural style that developed in the 1920s and 1930s and was closely related to modernism and modernist architecture.
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Interwar period
In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period (or interbellum) lasted from 11November 1918 to 1September 1939 (20years, 9months, 21days) – from the end of World War I (WWI) to the beginning of World War II (WWII).
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Iris Festival
The Iris Festival is the annual and official celebration of the Brussels-Capital Region in Belgium.
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Iris pseudacorus
Iris pseudacorus, the yellow flag, yellow iris, or water flag, is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae.
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Iron
Iron is a chemical element.
Irreligion
Irreligion is the absence or rejection of religious beliefs or practices.
Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
Islam in Belgium
Islam is the second largest religion in Belgium after Christianity.
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Islamic State
The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist group and an unrecognised quasi-state.
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Islamic terrorism
Islamic terrorism (also known as Islamist terrorism or radical Islamic terrorism) refers to terrorist acts with religious motivations carried out by fundamentalist militant Islamists and Islamic extremists.
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ISO 3166-2:BE
ISO 3166-2:BE is the entry for Belgium in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g. provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1. Brussels and ISO 3166-2:BE are regions of Belgium.
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Ixelles
italic (French) or italic (Dutch) is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium.
Ixelles Ponds
The Ixelles Ponds (Étangs d'Ixelles) or Elsene Ponds (Vijvers van Elsene) are two freshwater ponds in the Brussels municipality of Ixelles, Belgium.
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Jacob Jordaens
Jacob (Jacques) Jordaens (19 May 1593 – 18 October 1678 in the Netherlands Institute for Art History) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and a designer of tapestries and prints.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
Jazz Station
Jazz Station is a jazz club and exhibition venue in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode in the Belgian district of Brussels.
Jean d'Osta
Jean d'Osta pseudonym of Jean Van Osta, (Brussels – Belgium, 1909–1993) was a Belgian writer, journalist, humorist, and great lover of Brussels.
Jette
Jette is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium.
Jette railway station
Jette railway station (Gare de Jette; Station Jette) is a railway station in the municipality of Jette in Brussels, Belgium, opened in 1892.
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Josef Hoffmann
Josef Hoffmann (15 December 1870 – 7 May 1956) was an Austrian-Moravian architect and designer.
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Joseph Poelaert
Joseph Poelaert (21 March 1817 – 3 November 1879) was a Belgian architect.
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Journal of Belgian History
The Journal of Belgian History is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society (Cegesoma).
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Joyous Entry
A Joyous Entry (Blijde Intrede, Blijde Inkomst, or Blijde Intocht.) is the official name used for the ceremonial royal entry, the first official peaceable visit of a reigning monarch, prince, duke or governor into a city, mainly in the Duchy of Brabant or the County of Flanders and occasionally in France, Luxembourg, Hungary, or Scotland, usually coinciding with recognition by the monarch of the rights or privileges to the city and sometimes accompanied by an extension of them.
Judaism
Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit.
Jules Anspach
Baron Jules Victor Anspach (20 July 1829 – 19 May 1879) was a Belgian liberal politician and mayor of the City of Brussels.
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K.V.V. Crossing Elewijt
Koninklijke Voetbal Vereniging Crossing Elewijt is a Belgian association football club from the village of Elewijt in the municipality of Zemst, Flemish Brabant.
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German-born philosopher, political theorist, economist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.
Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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King Baudouin Stadium
The King Baudouin Stadium (Stade Roi Baudouin, Koning Boudewijnstadion) is a sports ground in Brussels, Belgium.
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Kingdom of Germany
The Kingdom of Germany or German Kingdom (regnum Teutonicorum 'kingdom of the Germans', regnum Teutonicum 'German kingdom', regnum Alamanie "kingdom of Germany") was the mostly Germanic language-speaking East Frankish kingdom, which was formed by the Treaty of Verdun in 843.
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Kinshasa
Kinshasa (Kinsásá), formerly named Léopoldville until June 30, 1966, is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Koekelberg
Koekelberg is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium.
Koksijde
Koksijde (Coxyde; Koksyde) is a town and a municipality in Belgium.
Kraainem
Kraainem (sometimes unofficially spelt Crainhem in French) is a municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in the Flemish region of Belgium.
Kriek lambic
Kriek lambic is a style of Belgian beer, made by fermenting lambic with sour Morello cherries.
KU Leuven
KU Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium.
Kyiv
Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.
La Libre Belgique
La Libre Belgique, currently sold under the name La Libre, is a French-language Belgian daily newspaper.
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La Monnaie
The Royal Theatre of La Monnaie (italic,; italic; both translating as the "Royal Theatre of the Mint") is an opera house in central Brussels, Belgium.
La muette de Portici
La muette de Portici (The Mute Girl of Portici, or The Dumb Girl of Portici), also called Masaniello in some versions, is an opera in five acts by Daniel Auber, with a libretto by Germain Delavigne, revised by Eugène Scribe.
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Lace
Lace is a delicate fabric made of yarn or thread in an open weblike pattern, made by machine or by hand.
Laeken
italic or italic is a residential suburb in the north-western part of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium.
Lambert I, Count of Louvain
Count Lambert "the Bearded" (c. 950 - 12 September 1015) was the first person to be described as a count of Leuven (French Louvain) in a surviving contemporary record, being described this way relatively late in life, in 1003.
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Lambic
Lambic is a type of beer brewed in the Pajottenland region of Belgium southwest of Brussels and in Brussels itself since the 13th century.
Landmark
A landmark is a recognizable natural or artificial feature used for navigation, a feature that stands out from its near environment and is often visible from long distances.
Language border
A language border or language boundary is the line separating two language areas.
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Languages of Belgium
The Kingdom of Belgium has three official languages: Dutch, French, and German.
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Late antiquity
Late antiquity is sometimes defined as spanning from the end of classical antiquity to the local start of the Middle Ages, from around the late 3rd century up to the 7th or 8th century in Europe and adjacent areas bordering the Mediterranean Basin depending on location.
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Léon Daudet
Léon Daudet (16 November 1867 – 2 July 1942) was a French journalist, writer, an active monarchist, and a member of the Académie Goncourt.
Léon Spilliaert
Léon Spilliaert (also Leon Spilliaert; 28 July 1881 – 23 November 1946) was a Belgian symbolist painter and graphic artist.
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Le Botanique
Le Botanique is a cultural complex and music venue in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Brussels, Belgium.
Le Mariage de mademoiselle Beulemans
Le Mariage de mademoiselle Beulemans is a three-act comedy play written in 1910 by the Belgian playwrights Frantz Fonson and Fernand Wicheler.
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Le Soir
Le Soir is a French-language Belgian daily newspaper.
Leonidas (chocolate maker)
Leonidas is a registered trademark of the agri-food company Confiserie Leonidas S.A. The Belgian chocolate company was founded in 1913 by Leonidas Kestekides.
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Leopold I of Belgium
Leopold I (Léopold; 16 December 1790 – 10 December 1865) was the first King of the Belgians, reigning from 21 July 1831 until his death in 1865.
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Leopold II of Belgium
Leopold II (Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor; Leopold Lodewijk Filips Maria Victor; 9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909) was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909, and the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908.
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Leopold Park
Leopold Park (Parc Léopold,; Leopoldpark) is a public park of located within the Leopold Quarter (European Quarter) of Brussels, Belgium.
Les XX
Les XX (French; "Les Vingt") was a group of twenty Belgian painters, designers and sculptors, formed in 1883 by the Brussels lawyer, publisher, and entrepreneur Octave Maus.
Leuven
Leuven, also called Louvain (Löwen), is the capital and largest city of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium.
Library
A library is a collection of books, and possibly other materials and media, that is accessible for use by its members and members of allied institutions.
Light rail
Light rail (or light rail transit, abbreviated to LRT) is a form of passenger urban rail transit using rolling stock derived from tram technology National Conference of the Transportation Research Board while also having some features from heavy rapid transit.
Lille
Lille (Rijsel; Lile; Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders.
Lingua franca
A lingua franca (for plurals see), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages.
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Linkebeek
Linkebeek is a Belgian municipality in the Halle-Vilvoorde district (arrondissement) of the province of Flemish Brabant.
List of Belgian monarchs
This is a list of Belgian monarchs from 1831 when the first Belgian king, Leopold I, ascended the throne, after Belgium seceded from the Kingdom of the Netherlands during the Belgian Revolution of 1830.
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List of Belgian provinces by Human Development Index
This is a list of Belgian provinces and the Region of Brussels by Human Development Index as of 2021.
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List of Brussels Metro stations
This list of Brussels metro and premetro stations includes all the underground stations in the Brussels metro and ''premetro'' network, arranged by line.
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List of diplomatic missions in Belgium
This article lists diplomatic missions resident in the Kingdom of Belgium.
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List of largest church buildings
Churches can be measured and compared in several different ways.
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List of mayors of the City of Brussels
This is a list of mayors or burgomasters of the City of Brussels.
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List of municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region
The 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) are the political subdivisions of Belgium's central region.
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List of museums in Brussels
This is a list of museums in Brussels, Belgium.
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List of railway stations in Belgium
Belgium has an extensive passenger railway network managed by the National Railway Company of Belgium.
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List of sovereign states
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.
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List of tallest structures in Belgium
These are lists of the tallest structures in Belgium, sorted by type.
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List of universities in Belgium
This is a list of universities in Belgium.
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List of urban areas in the European Union
This is a list of urban areas in the European Union with over 500,000 inhabitants as of 2022.
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Ljubljana
Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia, located along a trade route between the northern Adriatic Sea and the Danube region, north of the country's largest marsh, inhabited since prehistoric times.
Lobbying
Lobbying is a form of advocacy, which lawfully attempts to directly influence legislators or government officials, such as regulatory agencies or judiciary.
Logo
A logo (abbreviation of logotype) is a graphic mark, emblem, or symbol used to aid and promote public identification and recognition.
London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
London boroughs
The London boroughs are the 32 local authority districts that together with the City of London make up the administrative area of Greater London, England; each is governed by a London borough council.
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Louis XIV
LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.
Louis XIV style
The Louis XIV style or Louis Quatorze, also called French classicism, was the style of architecture and decorative arts intended to glorify King Louis XIV and his reign.
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Low Countries
The Low Countries (de Lage Landen; les Pays-Bas), historically also known as the Netherlands (de Nederlanden), is a coastal lowland region in Northwestern Europe forming the lower basin of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta and consisting today of the three modern "Benelux" countries: Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands (Nederland, which is singular).
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Lower Lotharingia
The Duchy of Lower Lotharingia, also called Northern Lotharingia, Lower Lorraine or Northern Lorraine (and also referred to as Lothier or Lottier in titles), was a stem duchy established in 959, of the medieval Kingdom of Germany, which encompassed almost all of modern Belgium, Luxemburg, the northern part of the German Rhineland province and the eastern parts of France's Nord-Pas de Calais region, it also include almost all of modern Netherlands (the region of Frisia and the rest of the Netherlands was loosely associated with the duchy but duke exercised no de facto control over the territory).
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Lucky Luke
Lucky Luke is a Western bande dessinée series created by Belgian cartoonist Morris in 1946.
Luxembourg
Luxembourg (Lëtzebuerg; Luxemburg; Luxembourg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a small landlocked country in Western Europe. Brussels and Luxembourg are french-speaking countries and territories and NUTS 1 statistical regions of the European Union.
Luxembourg City
Luxembourg (Lëtzebuerg; Luxembourg; Luxemburg), also known as Luxembourg City (Stad Lëtzebuerg or d'Stad; Ville de Luxembourg; Stadt Luxemburg or Luxemburg-Stadt), is the capital city of Luxembourg and the country's most populous commune.
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Maalbeek
The Maelbeek or Maalbeek is a stream that runs through several municipalities in Brussels, Belgium, including Etterbeek, Ixelles, Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Schaerbeek.
Maastricht
Maastricht (Mestreech; Maestricht; Mastrique) is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands.
Macau
Macau or Macao is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
Madou Plaza Tower
The Madou Plaza Tower (Tour Madou Plaza; Madou Plazatoren) is a skyscraper in Brussels, Belgium.
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Madrid
Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain.
Maelbeek metro station
Maelbeek (French, former Dutch spelling) or Maalbeek (Dutch) is a Brussels Metro station in the City of Brussels, Belgium.
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Magritte Awards
A Magritte Award (Magritte du cinéma) is an accolade presented by the Académie André Delvaux of Belgium to recognize cinematic achievement in the film industry.
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Magritte Museum
The Magritte Museum (Musée Magritte; Magritte Museum) is an art museum in the Royal Quarter of Brussels, Belgium, dedicated to the work of the Belgian surrealist artist, René Magritte.
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The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels.
Maison du Peuple, Brussels
The italic (French) or italic (Dutch), both literally the "House of the People", was a public building located on the italic/italic, in the Sablon/Zavel district of Brussels, Belgium.
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Major town houses of the architect Victor Horta (Brussels)
The major town houses of Victor Horta are four town houses in Brussels, Belgium, which have been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000.
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Manneken Pis
paren) is a landmark bronze fountain sculpture in central Brussels, Belgium, depicting a puer mingens; a naked little boy urinating into the fountain's basin. Though its existence is attested as early as the mid-15th century, Manneken Pis was redesigned by the Brabantine sculptor Jérôme Duquesnoy the Elder and put in place in 1619.
Maquette
A maquette is a scale model or rough draft of an unfinished sculpture or work of architecture.
Margaret III, Countess of Flanders
Margaret III (13 April 1350 – 16/21 March 1405) was a ruling Countess of Flanders, Countess of Artois, and Countess of Auvergne and Boulogne between 1384 and 1405.
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Marionette
A marionette (marionnette) is a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings depending on regional variations.
Marollen
The italic or italic is a popular historic neighbourhood of downtown Brussels, Belgium.
Marsupilami
Marsupilami is a comic book character and fictional animal species created by André Franquin.
Martyr
A martyr (mártys, 'witness' stem, martyr-) is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external party.
Mary of Burgundy
Mary of Burgundy (Marie de Bourgogne; Maria van Bourgondië; 13 February 1457 – 27 March 1482), nicknamed the Rich, was a member of the House of Valois-Burgundy who ruled a collection of states that included the duchies of Limburg, Brabant, Luxembourg, the counties of Namur, Holland, Hainaut and other territories, from 1477 until her death in 1482.
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Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity
The Proclamation of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity was made by the Director-General of UNESCO starting in 2001 to raise awareness of intangible cultural heritage and encourage local communities to protect them and the local people who sustain these forms of cultural expressions.
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Maubeuge
Maubeuge (historical Mabuse or Malbode; Maubeuche) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
Maximilian I (22 March 1459 – 12 January 1519) was King of the Romans from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death in 1519.
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Maypole
A maypole is a tall wooden pole erected as a part of various European folk festivals, around which a maypole dance often takes place.
Métro Léger de Charleroi
The Métro Léger de Charleroi (abbreviated as MLC, also locally referred to as the Métro Carolo or simply Le Métro in French) is a light rail network in Belgium.
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Mechelen
Mechelen (Malines; historically known as Mechlin in EnglishMechelen has been known in English as Mechlin, from where the adjective Mechlinian is derived. This name may still be used, especially in a traditional or historical context. The city's French name, Malines, had also been used in English in the past (in the 19th and 20th centuries); however, this has largely been abandoned.
Medieval architecture
Medieval architecture was the art of designing and constructing buildings in the Middle Ages.
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Medieval pageant
A medieval pageant is a form of procession traditionally associated with both secular and religious rituals, often with a narrative structure.
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Megalith
A megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a prehistoric structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones.
Meir, Antwerp
Meir is the main shopping street in Antwerp, Belgium.
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Meiser railway station
Meiser railway station (Gare de Meiser; Station Meiser) is a railway station in the municipality of Schaerbeek in Brussels, Belgium, opened in 1976.
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Melsbroek Air Base
Melsbroek Air Base is a Belgian Air Component facility in Steenokkerzeel, northeast of Brussels, the capital of Belgium.
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Memorial Van Damme
The Memorial Van Damme is an annual athletics event at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels, Belgium, that takes place in late August or early September.
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Menhir
A menhir (from Brittonic languages: maen or men, "stone" and hir or hîr, "long"), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large upright stone, emplaced in the ground by humans, typically dating from the European middle Bronze Age.
Merode station
Merode is a railway and metro station in Brussels, Belgium.
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Metonymy
Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.
Metropolitan areas in Belgium
National statistics differ between five Metropolitan areas in Belgium.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City.
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Meyboom
The Meyboom plantation (or Meiboom in Dutch, "May tree" – a corruption of the Dutch tree of joy) is the oldest tradition in Brussels, Belgium, attested since 1308.
Michael (archangel)
Michael, also called Saint Michael the Archangel, Archangel Michael and Saint Michael the Taxiarch is an archangel in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Baha'i faith.
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Michel de Ghelderode
Michel de Ghelderode (born Adémar Adolphe Louis Martens; 3 April 1898 – 1 April 1962) was an avant-garde Belgian dramatist, from Flanders, who spoke and wrote in French.
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Michelin Guide
The Michelin Guides are a series of guide books that have been published by the French tyre company Michelin since 1900.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Military alliance
A military alliance is a formal agreement between nations that specifies mutual obligations regarding national security.
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Military hospital
A military hospital is a hospital owned and operated by a military.
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Mini-Europe
Mini-Europe is a miniature park located in the Bruparck entertainment park, at the foot of the Atomium, in Brussels, Belgium.
Miniature park
A miniature park is a display of miniature buildings and models, usually as a recreational and tourist attraction open to the public.
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Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region
The minister-president of the Brussels Capital-Region (Ministre-président de la région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Minister-president van het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest) is the person leading the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region.
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Modern architecture
Modern architecture, also called modernist architecture, was an architectural movement and style that was prominent in the 20th century, between the earlier Art Deco and later postmodern movements.
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Moensberg railway station
Moensberg railway station (Gare de Moensberg; Station Moensberg) is a railway station in the municipality of Uccle in Brussels, Belgium.
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Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
italic (French) or italic (Dutch), often simply called Molenbeek, is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium.
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Monarchy of Belgium
Belgium is a constitutional, hereditary and popular monarchy.
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Monarchy of Spain
The monarchy of Spain or Spanish monarchy (Monarquía Española) is the constitutional form of government of Spain.
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Mont des Arts
The italic (French) or italic (Dutch), meaning "Hill/Mount of the Arts", is an urban complex and historic site in central Brussels, Belgium, including the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), the National Archives of Belgium, the Square – Brussels Meeting Centre, and a public garden.
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Moorsel
Moorsel is a village in the Denderstreek in the province East Flanders in Belgium, a deelgemeente of the city of Aalst.
Moroccans in Belgium
Moroccans and people of Moroccan descent, who come from various ethnic groups, form a distinct community in Belgium and part of the wider Moroccan diaspora.
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Mosque
A mosque, also called a masjid, is a place of worship for Muslims.
Moules-frites
Moules-frites or moules et frites (mosselen-friet) is a main dish of mussels and French fries originating in Northern France and Belgium.
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Multilingualism
Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers.
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Multinational corporation
A multinational corporation (MNC; also called a multinational enterprise (MNE), transnational enterprise (TNE), transnational corporation (TNC), international corporation, or stateless corporation,with subtle but contrasting senses) is a corporate organization that owns and controls the production of goods or services in at least one country other than its home country.
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Municipalities of Belgium
Belgium comprises 581 municipalities (gemeenten; communes; Gemeinden), 300 of them grouped into five provinces in Flanders and 262 others in five provinces in Wallonia, while the remaining 19 are in the Brussels Capital Region, which is not divided in provinces.
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Municipalities with language facilities
In Belgium, there are 27 municipalities with language facilities (faciliteitengemeenten; communes à facilités; Fazilitäten-Gemeinden), which must offer linguistic services to residents in Dutch, French, or German in addition to their single official languages.
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Mural
A mural is any piece of graphic artwork that is painted or applied directly to a wall, ceiling or other permanent substrate.
Museum of Natural Sciences
The Museum of Natural Sciences of Belgium (Muséum des Sciences naturelles de Belgique; Museum voor Natuurwetenschappen van België) is a Brussels museum dedicated to natural history.
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Museums of the Far East
The Museums of the Far East (Musées d'Extrême-Orient; Musea van het Verre Oosten) is a complex of three museums in Laeken, City of Brussels, Belgium, dedicated to Oriental art and culture, specifically that of China and Japan.
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Musical Instrument Museum, Brussels
The Musical Instruments Museum (MIM) (Musée des instruments de musique; Muziekinstrumentenmuseum) is a music museum in central Brussels, Belgium.
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Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
Mussel
Mussel is the common name used for members of several families of bivalve molluscs, from saltwater and freshwater habitats.
N1 road (Belgium)
The N1 is a national route that connects Brussels with Antwerp and the Dutch border near Wuustwezel.
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N2 road (Belgium)
The N2 road in Belgium is a road connecting Brussels and Maastricht passing Leuven, Diest and Hasselt.
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N3 road (Belgium)
The N3 road in Belgium is a national road connecting the capital city Brussels to Aachen in Germany via Leuven, Tienen, Sint-Truiden and Liège.
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N4 road (Belgium)
The N4 road in Belgium is a highway that runs from Brussels to Luxembourg.
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N5 road (Belgium)
The N5 is a road in Belgium connecting the small ring in Brussels and Philippeville via Charleroi (commonly named Route de Philippeville till the ring of Charleroi).
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N8 road (Belgium)
The N8 road in Belgium is a road connecting Brussels and Koksijde, passing Ninove, Oudenaarde, Kortrijk, Ypres and Veurne.
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Nail bomb
A nail bomb is an anti-personnel explosive device containing nails to increase its effectiveness at harming victims.
Namur Gate
The Namur Gate (Porte de Namur,; Naamsepoort) was one of the medieval city gates of the second walls of Brussels, Belgium.
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.
National Bank of Belgium
The National Bank of Belgium (NBB; Nationale Bank van België, Banque nationale de Belgique, Belgische Nationalbank) is the Belgian member of the Eurosystem.
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National Fund for Scientific Research
The National Fund for Scientific Research (NFSR) (Dutch: Nationaal Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NFWO), French: Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS)) was once a government institution in Belgium for supporting scientific research until it was split into two separate organizations.
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National library
A national library is a library established by a government as a country's preeminent repository of information.
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National Railway Company of Belgium
The National Railway Company of Belgium (Nationale Maatschappij der Belgische Spoorwegen, NMBS; Société nationale des chemins de fer belges, SNCB; Nationale Gesellschaft der Belgischen Eisenbahnen) is the national railway company of Belgium.
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NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.
NATO headquarters
The NATO headquarters is the political and administrative center of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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NATO summit
A NATO summit is a summit meeting that is regarded as a periodic opportunity for heads of state and heads of government of NATO member countries to evaluate and provide strategic direction for Alliance activities.
Naturalization
Naturalization (or naturalisation) is the legal act or process by which a non-national of a country acquires the nationality of that country after birth.
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Neder-Over-Heembeek
Neder-Over-Heembeek is a former municipality of Brussels, Belgium, that was merged into the City of Brussels in 1921.
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Neo-Byzantine architecture
Neo-Byzantine architecture (also referred to as Byzantine Revival) was a revival movement, most frequently seen in religious, institutional and public buildings.
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Neoclassical architecture
Neoclassical architecture, sometimes referred to as Classical Revival architecture, is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy, France and Germany.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
Neuhaus (chocolatier)
Neuhaus is a Belgian chocolatier which manufactures and sells luxury chocolates, chocolate truffles, biscuits and ice cream.
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New Scientist
New Scientist is a popular science magazine covering all aspects of science and technology.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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News agency
A news agency is an organization that gathers news reports and sells them to subscribing news organizations, such as newspapers, magazines and radio and television broadcasters.
Newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.
Nine Years' War
The Nine Years' War was a European great power conflict from 1688 to 1697 between France and the Grand Alliance.
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Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics
Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics or NUTS (Nomenclature des unités territoriales statistiques) is a geocode standard for referencing the administrative divisions of countries for statistical purposes.
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Non-governmental organization
A non-governmental organization (NGO) (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government.
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North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
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North–South connection
The North–South connection (Jonction Nord-Midi; Noord-Zuidverbinding) is a railway link of national and international importance through central Brussels, Belgium, that connects the major railway stations in the city.
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Northern Quarter, Brussels
The Northern Quarter (Quartier Nord or Espace Nord; Noordwijk or Noordruimte) is the central business district of Brussels, Belgium.
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November 2015 Paris attacks
A series of coordinated Islamist terrorist attacks took place on Friday, 13 November 2015 in Paris, France, and the city's northern suburb, Saint-Denis.
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Oceanic climate
An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate or maritime climate, is the temperate climate sub-type in Köppen classification represented as Cfb, typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, generally featuring cool to warm summers and cool to mild winters (for their latitude), with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature.
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Old Dutch
In linguistics, Old Dutch (Modern Dutch: Oudnederlands) or Old Low Franconian (Modern Dutch: Oudnederfrankisch) is the set of dialects that evolved from Frankish spoken in the Low Countries during the Early Middle Ages, from around the 6th Page 55: "Uit de zesde eeuw dateren de oudst bekende geschreven woorden en tekstjes in de Lage Landen, waarmee de periode van het oud-Nederlands begint." or 9th Page 27: "Aan het einde van de negende eeuw kan er zeker van Nederlands gesproken worden; hoe long daarvoor dat ook het geval was, kan niet met zekerheid worden uitgemaakt." to the 12th century.
Old England (department store)
The Old England department store was a large retailer in central Brussels, Belgium, partially housed in a notable Art Nouveau building constructed in 1899 by Paul Saintenoy out of girded steel and glass.
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Ommegang of Brussels
The Ommegang of Brussels (Ommegang de Bruxelles; Ommegang van Brussel) is a traditional Ommegang, a type of medieval pageant, celebrated annually in Brussels, Belgium.
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Opérateur de transport de Wallonie
Opérateur de transport de Wallonie (OTW) (French for: Transport Operator of Wallonia), formerly Société régionale wallonne du transport (SRWT) (French for: Walloon Regional Transport Company), is responsible for the supervision, strategic planning and marketing of a group of five regional public transport directorate branded as TEC or "Transport En Commun" (French for: Public Transport) in Wallonia, Belgium.
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Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats
The Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats (Open Vld) is a Flemish liberal political party in Belgium.
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Orange Belgium
Orange Belgium (known as Orange) is a Belgian telecommunications company.
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Ordinance (Belgium)
In Belgium, an ordinance (Ordonnantie, ordonnance) is a form of legislation passed by the Brussels Parliament in exercise of its regional competences and by the United Assembly of the Common Community Commission.
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Ostend
Ostend (Oostende,; Ostende; Ostende; Ostende, literally "East End") is a coastal city and municipality, located in the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium.
Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor
Otto II (955 – 7 December 983), called the Red, was Holy Roman Emperor from 973 until his death in 983.
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Palace of Charles of Lorraine
The Palace of Charles of Lorraine (Palais de Charles de Lorraine; Paleis van Karel van Lotharingen) is a neoclassical palace in the Royal Quarter of Brussels, Belgium.
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Palace of Coudenberg
The Palace of Coudenberg (Palais du Coudenberg; Coudenbergpaleis) was a royal residence situated on the Coudenberg or Koudenberg (Dutch for "Cold Hill"), a small hill in what is today the Royal Quarter of Brussels, Belgium.
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Palace of Justice, Brussels
The Palace of Justice of Brussels (Palais de Justice de Bruxelles,; Dutch) or Law Courts of Brussels is a courthouse in Brussels, Belgium.
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Palace of Laeken
The Palace of Laeken or Castle of Laeken (Château de Laeken; Kasteel van Laken; Schloss zu Laeken) is the official residence of the King of the Belgians and the Belgian royal family.
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Palace of the Count of Flanders
The Palace of the Count of Flanders (Palais du Comte de Flandre; Paleis van de Graaf van Vlaanderen) is a neoclassical palace in Brussels, Belgium.
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Palace of the Nation
The Palace of the Nation (Palais de la Nation; Paleis der Natie; Palast der Nation) is a neoclassical palace in Brussels, Belgium, housing the Belgian Federal Parliament.
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Pan-European identity
Pan-European identity is the sense of personal identification with Europe, in a cultural or political sense.
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Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
Parish church
A parish church (or parochial church) in Christianity is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish.
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Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region
The Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (French: Parlement de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Dutch: Parlement van het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is the governing body of the Brussels-Capital Region, one of the three regions of Belgium.
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The Parliament of the French Community (Parlement de la Communauté française or PCF) is the legislative assembly of the French Community of Belgium based in the Quartier Royal.
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Paul Delvaux
Paul Delvaux (23 September 1897 – 20 July 1994) was a Belgian painter noted for his dream-like scenes of women, classical architecture, trains and train stations, and skeletons, often in combination.
Paul Hankar
Paul Hankar (11 December 1859 – 17 January 1901) was a Belgian architect and furniture designer, and an innovator in the Art Nouveau style.
Paul Saintenoy
Paul Saintenoy (19 June 1862 – 18 July 1952) was a Belgian architect, teacher, architectural historian, and writer.
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Paul Verlaine
Paul-Marie Verlaine (30 March 1844 – 8 January 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement and the Decadent movement.
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Peace of Utrecht
The Peace of Utrecht was a series of peace treaties signed by the belligerents in the War of the Spanish Succession, in the Dutch city of Utrecht between April 1713 and February 1715.
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Pentagon (Brussels)
The Pentagon (Pentagone, Vijfhoek) or Brussels' city centre is the historical city centre of Brussels, Belgium, within the contours of the Small Ring inner ring road.
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Performing arts
The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience.
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Peri-urbanisation
Peri-urbanisation relates to the processes of scattered and dispersive urban growth that create hybrid landscapes of fragmented and mixed urban and rural characteristics.
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Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat.
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Pharmaceutical industry
The pharmaceutical industry is an industry involved in medicine that discovers, develops, produces, and markets pharmaceutical goods for use as drugs that function by being administered to (or self-administered by) patients using such medications with the goal of curing and/or preventing disease (as well as possibly alleviating symptoms of illness and/or injury).
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Philip II of Spain
Philip II (21 May 152713 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent (Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598.
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Philip the Bold
Philip II the Bold (17 January 1342 – 27 April 1404) was Duke of Burgundy and jure uxoris Count of Flanders, Artois and Burgundy.
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Philip the Handsome
Philip the Handsome (22 June/July 1478 – 25 September 1506), also called the Fair, was ruler of the Burgundian Netherlands and titular Duke of Burgundy from 1482 to 1506, as well as the first Habsburg King of Castile (as Philip I) for a brief time in 1506.
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809 – 19 January 1865) was a French socialist,Landauer, Carl; Landauer, Hilde Stein; Valkenier, Elizabeth Kridl (1979).
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder (– 9 September 1569) was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so-called genre painting); he was a pioneer in presenting both types of subject as large paintings.
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Place de la Bourse, Brussels
The italic (French) or italic (Dutch), meaning "Stock Exchange Square", is a major square in central Brussels, Belgium.
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Place des Martyrs, Brussels
The italic (italic) is a historic square in central Brussels, Belgium.
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Place du Jeu de Balle
The italic (French,, "Ball Game Square") or italic (Dutch; "Foxes' Square") is a square located in the heart of the Marolles/Marollen district of the City of Brussels, Belgium.
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Place Eugène Flagey
The italic or italic (Dutch), usually shortened to the Place Flagey, or Flagey by locals, is a square in the Brussels municipality of Ixelles, Belgium.
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Place Royale, Brussels
The italic ("Royal Square") or italic ("King's Square") is a historic neoclassical square in the Royal Quarter of Brussels, Belgium.
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Police
The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state with the aim of enforcing the law and protecting the public order as well as the public itself.
Politico
Politico (stylized in all caps), known originally as The Politico, is an American political digital newspaper company.
Politics and government of the Brussels-Capital Region
The government of the Brussels-Capital Region is the political administration of the Brussels Capital Region of Belgium.
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Politics of Belgium
The politics of Belgium take place in the framework of a federal, representative democratic, constitutional monarchy.
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Port of Brussels
The Port of Brussels (Port de Bruxelles, Haven van Brussel) is an inland port at a distance of from the sea.
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Postal code
A postal code (also known locally in various English-speaking countries throughout the world as a postcode, post code, PIN or ZIP Code) is a series of letters or digits or both, sometimes including spaces or punctuation, included in a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail.
Postmodern architecture
Postmodern architecture is a style or movement which emerged in the late 1950s as a reaction against the austerity, formality, and lack of variety of modern architecture, particularly in the international style advocated by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock.
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Prague
Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.
Prefectures in France
In France, a prefecture (préfecture) may be.
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Primark
Primark Stores Limited (trading as Penneys in the Republic of Ireland)is an Irish multinational fashion retailer with headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, with outlets across Europe and in the United States.
Primary school
A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary education of children who are 4 to 10 years of age (and in many cases, 11 years of age).
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Prime Minister of Belgium
The prime minister of Belgium (Eerste minister van België; Premier ministre de Belgique; Premierminister von Belgien) or the premier of Belgium is the head of the federal government of Belgium, and the most powerful person in Belgian politics.
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Processional giants and dragons in Belgium and France
The processional giants and dragons (Géants et dragons processionnels) of Belgium and France are a set of folkloric manifestations involving processional giants, which have been inscribed by UNESCO on the lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2008, originally proclaimed in November 2005.
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Professional
A professional is a member of a profession or any person who works in a specified professional activity.
Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
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Province of Brabant
The Province of Brabant was a province in Belgium from 1830 to 1995. Brussels and province of Brabant are Brabant.
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Provinces of Belgium
The Kingdom of Belgium is divided into three regions.
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Proximus
Proximus (stylised as pro⌘imus; formerly known as Belgacom Mobile) is the largest of Belgium's three mobile telecommunications companies and is a part of Proximus Group (previously Belgacom Group).
Proximus Towers
The Proximus Towers (Tours Proximus; Proximustorens) are twin skyscrapers on the italic/italic in the Northern Quarter central business district of Brussels, Belgium.
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Public broadcasting
Public broadcasting (or public service broadcasting) involves radio, television, and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service.
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Public transport
Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that may charge a posted fee for each trip.
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Queen Elisabeth Competition
The Queen Elisabeth Competition (Koningin Elisabethwedstrijd, Concours musical international Reine Élisabeth) is an international competition for career-starting musicians held in Brussels.
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R.S.C. Anderlecht
Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht, usually known as Anderlecht or RSCA, is a Belgian professional football club based in Anderlecht, Brussels Capital-Region.
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R.W.D. Molenbeek (2015)
Racing White Daring Molenbeek, also known as RWD Molenbeek and often referred to as RWDM, is a Belgian professional football club based in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Brussels.
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Randstad
The Randstad ("Rim City" or "Edge City") is a roughly crescent- or arc-shaped conurbation in the Netherlands, that houses almost half the country's population.
Rapid transit
Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT), commonly referred to as metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport that is generally built in urban areas.
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Reims
Reims (also spelled Rheims in English) is the most populous city in the French department of Marne, and the 12th most populous city in France.
Relic
In religion, a relic is an object or article of religious significance from the past.
René Magritte
René François Ghislain Magritte (21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and boundaries of reality and representation.
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Restaurant
A restaurant is a business that prepares and serves food and drinks to customers.
Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region
The Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region (Metropolregion Rhein-Ruhr) is the largest metropolitan region in Germany, with over ten million inhabitants.
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Rifians
Riffians or Rifians (singular) are a Berber ethnic group originally from the Rif region of northeastern Morocco (includes the autonomous city of Spain, Melilla).
Right of asylum
The right of asylum, sometimes called right of political asylum (asylum), is an ancient juridical concept, under which people persecuted by their own rulers might be protected by another sovereign authority, such as a second country or another entity which in medieval times could offer sanctuary.
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Ring road
A ring road (also known as circular road, beltline, beltway, circumferential (high)way, loop or orbital) is a road or a series of connected roads encircling a town, city or country.
Road bicycle racing
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads.
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Robert Campin
Robert Campin (c. 1375 – 26 April 1444), now usually identified with the Master of Flémalle (earlier the Master of the Merode Triptych, before the discovery of three other similar panels), was a master painter who, along with Jan van Eyck, initiated the development of Early Netherlandish painting, a key development in the early Northern Renaissance.
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Rogier Tower
The Rogier Tower (Tour Rogier; Rogiertoren) is a skyscraper located in the Northern Quarter central business district of Brussels, Belgium.
Rogier van der Weyden
Rogier van der Weyden or Roger de la Pasture (1399 or 140018 June 1464) was an early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces, and commissioned single and diptych portraits.
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mechelen–Brussels
The Archdiocese of Mechelen–Brussels (Archidioecesis Mechliniensis–Bruxellensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Belgium.
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
Romanesque architecture
Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe that was predominant in the 11th and 12th centuries.
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Ronquières inclined plane
The Ronquières Inclined Plane is a canal inclined plane on the Brussels-Charleroi Canal in the province of Hainaut in Wallonia, Belgium.
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Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium
The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium (RASAB) is a non-governmental association that promotes and organises science and the arts in Belgium by coordinating the national and international activities of its constituent academies such as the National Scientific Committees and the representation of Belgium in international scientific organisations.
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Royal Conservatory of Brussels
The Royal Conservatory of Brussels (Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel) is a historic conservatory in Brussels, Belgium.
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Royal Crypt (Belgium)
The Royal Crypt (Crypte royale, Koninklijke Crypte) lies underneath the Church of Our Lady in Laeken, Brussels, Belgium.
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Royal Greenhouses of Laeken
The Royal Greenhouses of Laeken (Serres Royales de Laeken, Koninklijke Serres van Laken) are a vast complex of monumental heated greenhouses in the park of the Royal Palace of Laeken (northern part of the City of Brussels), Belgium.
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Royal Library of Belgium
The Royal Library of Belgium (Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België; Bibliothèque royale de Belgique; Königliche Bibliothek Belgiens, abbreviated KBR and sometimes nicknamed Albertine in French or Albertina in Dutch) is the national library of Belgium.
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Royal Meteorological Institute
The Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (French: Institut Royal Météorologique de Belgique or IRM; Dutch: Koninklijk Meteorologisch Instituut van België or KMI) is a Belgian federal institute engaged in scientific research in the field of meteorology.
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Royal Military Academy (Belgium)
The Royal Military Academy (École royale militaire, Koninklijke Militaire School) is the military university of Belgium.
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Royal Mint of Belgium
The Royal Mint of Belgium (French: La Monnaie Royale de Belgique; Dutch: De Koninklijke Munt van België) was responsible for minting all official coins of Kingdom of Belgium from 1832 to 2017.
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Royal Museum for Central Africa
The Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) (Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika (KMMA); Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale (MRAC); Königliches Museum für Zentralafrika (KMZA)), communicating under the name AfricaMuseum since 2018, is an ethnography and natural history museum situated in Tervuren in Flemish Brabant, Belgium, just outside Brussels.
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Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History
The Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History (Musée royal de l'Armée et d'Histoire militaire; Koninklijk Museum van het Leger en de Krijgsgeschiedenis), also known as the Royal Military Museum (Musée royal de l'Armée (MRA); Koninklijk Legermuseum (KLM)), is a military museum that occupies the two northernmost halls of the historic complex in the Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark in Brussels, Belgium.
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Royal Museums of Art and History
The Royal Museums of Art and History (RMAH) (Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire (MRAH); Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis (KMKG)) is a group of museums in Brussels, Belgium.
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Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique; Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België) are a group of art museums in Brussels, Belgium.
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Royal Observatory of Belgium
The Royal Observatory of Belgium (Observatoire Royal de Belgique; Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van België) has been situated in the Uccle municipality of Brussels since 1890.
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Royal Palace of Brussels
The Royal Palace of Brussels (Palais royal de Bruxelles,; Koninklijk Paleis van Brussel; Königlicher Palast von Brüssel) is the official palace of the King and Queen of the Belgians in the centre of the nation's capital, Brussels.
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Royal Park Theatre
The Royal Park Theatre (Théâtre royal du Parc; Koninklijk Parktheater) is a theatre in central Brussels, Belgium.
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Royal Saint-Hubert Galleries
The Royal Saint-Hubert Galleries (Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert; Koninklijke Sint-Hubertusgalerijen) is an ensemble of three glazed shopping arcades in central Brussels, Belgium.
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Royale Union Saint-Gilloise
Royale Union Saint-Gilloise, commonly referred to as Union Saint-Gilloise and abbreviated as RUSG, is a Belgian professional football club originally located in the municipality of Saint-Gilles, in Brussels, although since the 1920s, it has been based at the Joseph Marien Stadium in the neighbouring municipality of Forest.
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RTBF
The i ("Belgian Radio-television of the French Community"), shortened to RTBF (branded as rtbf.be), is a public service broadcaster delivering radio and television services to the French-speaking Community of Belgium, in Wallonia and Brussels.
RTL-TVI
RTL-TVI is a private French-language, Belgium-based television station owned by DPG Media and Groupe Rossel, it was originally owned by the RTL Group until 31 March 2022.
Rudi Vervoort
Rudi Vervoort (born 20 November 1958) is a Brussels politician.
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Rue Neuve, Brussels
The italic or italic (Dutch), meaning "New Street", is a pedestrian street in central Brussels, Belgium.
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Rwanda
Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Brussels and Rwanda are french-speaking countries and territories.
RWS Bruxelles
RWS Bruxelles (Royal White Star Bruxelles) was a Belgian football club located in the municipality of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Brussels.
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Sablon, Brussels
The italic or italic is a neighbourhood and hill in the historic upper town of Brussels, Belgium.
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Saint Mary's Royal Church
Saint Mary's Royal Church (Église Royale Sainte-Marie; Koninklijke Sint-Mariakerk) is a Roman Catholic parish church located on the italic/italic in the Brussels municipality of Schaerbeek, Belgium.
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Saint-Géry Island
Saint-Géry Island (île Saint-Géry) or Sint-Goriks Island (Dutch) was the largest island in the river Senne in Brussels, Belgium.
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Saint-Gilles, Belgium
italic (French) or italic (Dutch) is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium.
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Saint-Job railway station
Saint-Job railway station (Gare de Saint-Job) or Sint-Job railway station (Station Sint-Job) is a railway station in the municipality of Uccle in Brussels, Belgium.
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Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
Saint-Josse-ten-Noode (French) or Sint-Joost-ten-Node (Dutch), often simply called Saint-Josse in French or Sint-Joost in Dutch, is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium.
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Saint-Louis University, Brussels
UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels is an autonomous university campus specialized in social and human sciences part of UCLouvain and based in Brussels, Belgium.
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Schaarbeek railway station
Schaerbeek railway station (Gare de Schaerbeek) or Schaarbeek railway station (Station Schaarbeek) is a railway station in the municipality of Schaerbeek in Brussels, Belgium, opened in 1887.
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Schaerbeek
italic (also archaic Dutch) or italic is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium.
Scheldt
The Scheldt (Escaut; Schelde) is a river that flows through northern France, western Belgium, and the southwestern part of the Netherlands, with its mouth at the North Sea.
Schuman railway station
Brussels-Schuman railway station (Gare de Bruxelles-Schuman; Station Brussel-Schuman) is a railway station in the City of Brussels, Belgium, serving the European Quarter.
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Science park
A science park (also called a "university research park", "technology park", "technopark", "technopolis", "technopole", or a "science and technology park") is defined as being a property-based development that accommodates and fosters the growth of tenant firms and that are affiliated with a university (or a government and private research bodies) based on proximity, ownership, and/or governance.
Sculpture in Brussels
Sculpture in Brussels has been created since the Middle Ages to the present day.
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Sea level
Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured.
Secondary school
A secondary school or high school is an institution that provides secondary education.
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Secretary of state
The title secretary of state or state's secretary is commonly used for senior or mid-level posts in governments around the world.
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Senate (Belgium)
The Senate (Senaat,; Sénat,; Senat) is one of the two chambers of the bicameral Federal Parliament of Belgium, the other being the Chamber of Representatives.
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Senne (river)
The Senne or Zenne is a small river that flows through Brussels, Belgium.
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Seven Noble Houses of Brussels
The Seven Noble Houses of Brussels (also called the Seven Lineages or Seven Patrician families of Brussels; Sept lignages de Bruxelles, Zeven geslachten van Brussel, Latin: Septem nobiles familiae Bruxellarum) were the seven families or clans whose descendants formed the patrician class and urban aristocracy of Brussels, Belgium.
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Seventeen Provinces
The Seventeen Provinces were the Imperial states of the Habsburg Netherlands in the 16th century.
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Sgraffito
Sgraffito (sgraffiti) is a technique either of wall decor, produced by applying layers of plaster tinted in contrasting colours to a moistened surface, or in pottery, by applying to an unfired ceramic body two successive layers of contrasting slip or glaze, and then in either case scratching so as to reveal parts of the underlying layer.
Shopping is an activity in which a customer browses the available goods or services presented by one or more retailers with the potential intent to purchase a suitable selection of them.
Siege of Brussels
The siege of Brussels took place between January and February 1746 during the War of the Austrian Succession.
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Simonis and Elisabeth stations
Simonis and Elisabeth are two interconnected stations on the Brussels Metro serving line 2 and line 6 on two different levels.
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Sint-Genesius-Rode
Sint-Genesius-Rode (Rhode-Saint-Genèse) is a municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in the Flemish region of Belgium.
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Sister city
A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.
Six Days of Brussels
The Six Days of Brussels was a six-day track cycling race held annually in Brussels, Belgium.
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Small Ring, Brussels
The Small Ring (Petite Ceinture, Kleine Ring) inner ring road, formally R20 and N0 is a series of roadways in central Brussels, Belgium, surrounding the historic city centre.
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Social mobility is the movement of individuals, families, households or other categories of people within or between social strata in a society.
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The Socialist Party (Parti socialiste,, PS) is a social democratic French-speaking political party in Belgium.
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Société Générale de Belgique
The Société Générale de Belgique (Generale Maatschappij van België,; often referred to in Belgium simply as "Société Générale" or SGB) was an investment bank and, subsequently, an industrial and financial conglomerate in Belgium between 1822 and 2003.
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Solvay Conference
The Solvay Conferences (Congrès Solvay) have been devoted to preeminent unsolved problems in both physics and chemistry.
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Sonian Forest
The Sonian Forest or Sonian Wood (Zoniënwoud, Forêt de Soignes) is a forest at the south-eastern edge of Brussels, Belgium.
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South Tower (Brussels)
The South Tower (Tour du Midi; Zuidertoren) is a 38-storey, skyscraper constructed between 1962 and 1967 in Brussels, Belgium.
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Southern Europe
Southern Europe is the southern region of Europe.
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Spirou & Fantasio
Spirou & Fantasio (Spirou et Fantasio), commonly shortened to Spirou, is one of the most popular classic Franco-Belgian comics.
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Sport Vlaanderen
Sport Vlaanderen is the Flemish sports agency.
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St V
italic (French), italic (Dutch) or St V are the commonly used names for a holiday for freethinking university students in Brussels, Belgium.
Standard language
A standard language (or standard variety, standard dialect, standardized dialect or simply standard) is a language variety that has undergone substantial codification of its grammar, lexicon, writing system, or other features and stands out among other varieties in a community as the one with the highest status or prestige.
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Statistics Belgium
Statistics Belgium (abbreviated Statbel formerly known as the NSI) is part of the Federal Public Service Economy, SMEs, Self-Employed and Energy.
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Steenokkerzeel
Steenokkerzeel is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant.
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Stock exchange
A stock exchange, securities exchange, or bourse is an exchange where stockbrokers and traders can buy and sell securities, such as shares of stock, bonds and other financial instruments.
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Stock market index
In finance, a stock index, or stock market index, is an index that measures the performance of a stock market, or of a subset of a stock market.
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Stoclet Palace
The Stoclet Palace (Palais Stoclet,; Stocletpaleis) is a mansion in Brussels, Belgium.
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Stone Age
The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface.
Strasbourg
Strasbourg (Straßburg) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France, at the border with Germany in the historic region of Alsace.
Strépy-Bracquegnies
Strépy-Bracquegnies (Sterpi-Bracgnere) is a village in Wallonia, Belgium.
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Street art
Street art is visual art created in public locations for public visibility.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa, Subsahara, or Non-Mediterranean Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara.
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Suicide attack
A suicide attack is a deliberate attack in which the perpetrators knowingly sacrifice their own lives as part of the attack.
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Surrealism
Surrealism is an art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike scenes and ideas.
Symbol
A symbol is a mark, sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship.
Telenet Group
Telenet Group N.V. is the largest provider of cable broadband services in Belgium.
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Terrorism
Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims.
Tertiary sector of the economy
The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle).
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Tervuren
Tervuren (Tervueren) is a municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in the Flemish region of Belgium.
Thalys
Thalys (French) was a brand name used for high-speed train services between Paris Gare du Nord via Brussels-South to either Amsterdam Centraal or to German cities in the Rhein-Ruhr, including Aachen, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen and Dortmund.
Théâtre Royal des Galeries
The Théâtre royal des Galeries (French; "Royal Theatre of the Galleries", abbreviated TRG) is a theatre in central Brussels, Belgium, subsidised by the French Community of Belgium.
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The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures de Tintin) is a series of 24 comic albums created by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, who wrote under the pen name Hergé.
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The Brussels Times
The Brussels Times is an English-language Belgian news website, and magazine, headquartered at Avenue Louise in Brussels.
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The Bulletin (Belgian magazine)
The Bulletin is an English-language news magazine based in Brussels, Belgium.
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The Smurfs
The Smurfs (Les Schtroumpfs; De Smurfen) is a Belgian comic franchise centered on a fictional colony of small, blue, humanoid creatures who live in mushroom-shaped houses in the forest.
Tomberg metro station
Tomberg is a Brussels Metro station on the eastern branch of line 1 (line 1B prior to 4 April 2009).
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Tour & Taxis
Tour & Taxis (Tour et Taxis; Thurn en Taxis) is a large former industrial site in Brussels, Belgium.
Track and field
Athletics (or track and field in the United States) is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills.
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Trade union
A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.
Train station
A train station, railroad station, or railroad depot (mainly North American terminology) and railway station (mainly UK and other Anglophone countries) is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight, or both.
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Trams in Brussels
The Brussels tramway network is a tram system serving a large part of the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium.
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Transeuropa Festival
The Transeuropa Festival is a bi-annual festival of culture, arts and politics held in different European cities since 2010.
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Transport in Brussels
Brussels has an extensive network of both private or public transportation means.
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Treaty of Amsterdam
The Treaty of Amsterdam, officially the Treaty of Amsterdam amending the Treaty on European Union, the Treaties establishing the European Communities and certain related acts, was signed on 2 October 1997, and entered into force on 1 May 1999; it made substantial changes to the Treaty of Maastricht, which had been signed in 1992.
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Treaty of Brussels
The Treaty of Brussels, also referred to as the Brussels Pact, was the founding treaty of the Western Union (WU) between 1948 and 1954, when it was amended as the Modified Brussels Treaty (MTB) and served as the founding treaty of the Western European Union (WEU) until its termination in 2010.
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Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
Uccle
Uccle (French) or Ukkel (Dutch) is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium.
Uccle-Calevoet railway station
Uccle-Calevoet railway station (Gare d'Uccle-Calevoet) or Ukkel-Kalevoet railway station (Station Ukkel-Kalevoet) is a railway station in the municipality of Uccle in Brussels, Belgium.
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Uccle-Stalle railway station
Uccle-Stalle railway station (Gare d'Uccle-Stalle) or Ukkel-Stalle railway station (Station Ukkel-Stalle) is a railway station in the municipality of Uccle in Brussels, Belgium.
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UCLouvain
UCLouvain (Université catholique de Louvain. also known as the Catholic University of Louvain, the English translation of its French name, and the University of Louvain, its official English name) is Belgium's largest French-speaking university.
UCLouvain Brussels Woluwe
UCLouvain Bruxelles Woluwe, also known as Louvain-en-Woluwe or Alma, is a campus of the University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium.
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UCLouvain Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning
The Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning (in French: Faculté d'architecture, d'ingénierie architecturale, d'urbanisme), often called LOCI, is the 14th faculty of the University of Louvain, Belgium.
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UEFA Euro 1972
The 1972 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was held in Belgium.
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UEFA Euro 2000
The 2000 UEFA European Football Championship, also known as Euro 2000, was the 11th UEFA European Championship, a football tournament held every four years and organised by UEFA, the sport's governing body in Europe.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
Union des Francophones
The Union of Francophones (Union des Francophones,, UF) is a political party in Belgium that participates as electoral lists in regional, provincial, and municipal elections in the Flemish Province of Flemish Brabant.
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Unit cell
In geometry, biology, mineralogy and solid state physics, a unit cell is a repeating unit formed by the vectors spanning the points of a lattice.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United Kingdom of the Netherlands
The United Kingdom of the Netherlands (Verenigd Koninkrijk der Nederlanden; Royaume uni des Pays-Bas) is the unofficial name given to the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Koninkrijk der Nederlanden; Royaume des Belgiques) as it existed between 1815 and 1830.
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Université libre de Bruxelles
The (Free University of Brussels; abbreviated ULB) is a French-speaking research university in Brussels, Belgium.
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University
A university is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines.
Urban contemporary music
Urban contemporary music, also known as urban music, hip hop, urban pop, or just simply urban, is a music radio format.
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Urban renewal
Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address urban decay in cities.
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Victor Horta
Victor Pierre Horta (Victor, Baron Horta after 1932; 6 January 1861 – 8 September 1947) was a Belgian architect and designer, and one of the founders of the Art Nouveau movement.
Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885), sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man, was a French Romantic writer and politician.
Villa Empain
The Villa Empain is a former private residence in Brussels, Belgium, which currently serves as a cultural centre and exhibition space.
Villo!
Villo! (a portmanteau of the French words ville ("city") and vélo ("bicycle")) is a public bicycle rental programme in Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium.
Vindicianus
Saint Vindicianus (Vindician) (Vindicien) (632 – 712) was a bishop of Cambrai-Arras.
Vooruit (political party)
Vooruit (Dutch for Onward) is a Flemish social democratic political party in Belgium.
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (abbreviated VUB) is a Dutch and English-speaking research university located in Brussels, Belgium.
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VRT (broadcaster)
The VRT is the national public service broadcaster for the Flemish Community of Belgium.
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VTM (TV channel)
VTM or Vlaamse Televisie Maatschappij (English: Flemish Television Company) is the main commercial television station in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking northern region of Belgium) and forms part of a network of channels owned by DPG Media (formerly Medialaan).
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Waffle
A waffle is a dish made from leavened batter or dough that is cooked between two plates that are patterned to give a characteristic size, shape, and surface impression.
Wallonia
Wallonia (Wallonie), officially the Walloon Region (Région wallonne), is one of the three regions of Belgium—along with Flanders and Brussels. Brussels and Wallonia are autonomous regions, french-speaking countries and territories, NUTS 1 statistical regions of the European Union and regions of Belgium.
Walloon Brabant
Walloon Brabant (Brabant wallon; Waals-Brabant; Roman Payis) is a province located in Belgium's French-speaking region of Wallonia. Brussels and Walloon Brabant are Brabant.
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Walloons
Walloons (Wallons; Walons) are a Gallo-Romance ethnic group native to Wallonia and the immediate adjacent regions of Flanders, France, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
War of the Austrian Succession
The War of the Austrian Succession was a European conflict fought between 1740 and 1748, primarily in Central Europe, the Austrian Netherlands, Italy, the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
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Watermael railway station
Watermael railway station (Gare de Watermael) or Watermaal railway station (Station Watermaal) is a railway station in the municipality of Watermael-Boitsfort in Brussels, Belgium, operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB).
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Watermael-Boitsfort
Watermael-Boitsfort (French) or Watermaal-Bosvoorde (Dutch,; Watermael-Boschvoorde), often simply called Boitsfort in French or Bosvoorde in Dutch, is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium.
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Welfare
Welfare, or commonly social welfare, is a type of government support intended to ensure that members of a society can meet basic human needs such as food and shelter.
Wemmel
Wemmel is a municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in the Flemish region of Belgium.
Western Europe
Western Europe is the western region of Europe.
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Western Roman Empire
In modern historiography, the Western Roman Empire was the western provinces of the Roman Empire, collectively, during any period in which they were administered separately from the eastern provinces by a separate, independent imperial court.
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Wezembeek-Oppem
Wezembeek-Oppem is a municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in the Flemish region of Belgium, east of the centre of Brussels.
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William I of the Netherlands
William I (Willem Frederik; 24 August 1772 – 12 December 1843) was king of the Netherlands and grand duke of Luxembourg from 1815 until his abdication in 1840.
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Woluwe
The Woluwe is a stream that goes through several municipalities in the south-east and east of Brussels, Belgium, and is a right tributary of the Senne in Vilvoorde.
Woluwe-Saint-Lambert
Woluwe-Saint-Lambert or Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe (Dutch) is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium.
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Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
Woluwe-Saint-Pierre or Sint-Pieters-Woluwe is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium.
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World Confederation of Labour
The World Confederation of Labour (WCL) was an international labour organization founded in 1920 and based in Europe.
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World Customs Organization
The World Customs Organization (WCO) is an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.
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World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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World music
"World music" is an English phrase for styles of music from non-Western countries, including quasi-traditional, intercultural, and traditional music.
World Trade Center (Brussels)
The World Trade Center (WTC) is a complex of skyscrapers at the corner of the italic/italic and the italic/italic in the Northern Quarter central business district of Brussels, Belgium.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
World's fair
A world's fair, also known as a universal exhibition or an expo, is a large global exhibition designed to showcase the achievements of nations.
Yeast
Yeasts are eukaryotic, single-celled microorganisms classified as members of the fungus kingdom.
Zara (retailer)
Zara is a fast-fashion retail subsidiary of the Spanish multinational fashion design, manufacturing, and retailing group Inditex.
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Zaventem
Zaventem is a municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in the Flemish region of Belgium.
Zinneke Parade
The Zinneke Parade is a biennial parade held in the City of Brussels, Belgium, since 2000.
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.brussels
.brussels is a generic top-level domain for Brussels, Belgium.
1985 European Cup final
The 1985 European Cup final was an association football match between Liverpool of England and Juventus of Italy on 29 May 1985 at the Heysel Stadium, Brussels, Belgium.
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20 km of Brussels
The 20 km of Brussels (20 km de Bruxelles, 20 km door Brussel) is a 20.1 km running race that has been held each year in Brussels since 1980, usually in May.
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2016 Brussels bombings
On 22 March 2016, two coordinated terrorist attacks in and close to Brussels, Belgium, were carried out by the Islamic State (IS).
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2017 Brussels summit
The 2017 Brussels Summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was the 27th formal meeting of the heads of state and heads of government of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, held in Brussels, Belgium, on 25 May 2017.
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2018 Brussels summit
The 2018 Brussels Summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was the 28th formal meeting of the heads of state and heads of government of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, held in Brussels, Belgium, on 11 and 12 July 2018.
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40th G7 summit
The 40th G7 summit was held 4–5 June 2014 in Brussels, Belgium.
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See also
Brabant
- Antwerp Province
- Armenhoef
- Brabantian dialect
- Brussels
- East Brabantian
- Flemish Brabant
- Getelands
- Keldermans family
- North Brabant
- Province of Brabant
- Walloon Brabant
Populated places established in the 1st millennium
- Beverley
- Blomberg, North Rhine-Westphalia
- Brussels
- Dholpur
- Eyam
- Hereford
- Ipswich
- Lopburi
- Lucerne
- Mogadishu
- Mollo culture
- Ocomtún
- Preston, Lancashire
- Pyay
- Rosetta
- Sale, Greater Manchester
- Selby
- Sheffield
- Shrewsbury
- Tadcaster
- Tchika Beret
- Teotenango
- Tiddis
Regions of Belgium
- Brussels
- Communities, regions, and language areas of Belgium
- Flanders
- Flemish Region
- Gewest
- ISO 3166-2:BE
- Wallonia
Regions of Europe with multiple official languages
- Adygea
- Aosta Valley
- Balearic Islands
- Bashkortostan
- Basque Country (autonomous community)
- Bilingual communes in Poland
- Brussels
- Canton of Bern
- Catalonia
- Chechnya
- Chuvashia
- Dagestan
- Duino-Aurisina
- Eupen-Malmedy
- Faroe Islands
- Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Friesland
- Gagauz Republic
- Gagauzia
- Galicia (Spain)
- Grisons
- Ingushetia
- Istria County
- Kabardino-Balkaria
- Kalmykia
- Karachay-Cherkessia
- Komi Republic
- Languages of Switzerland
- Liège Province
- Limburg (Netherlands)
- Mari El
- Mordovia
- Navarre
- North Ossetia–Alania
- Northern Ireland
- Republika Srpska
- South Tyrol
- Tatarstan
- Transnistria
- Udmurtia
- Valencian Community
- Vojvodina
- Wales
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels
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