Individual #Belgium__Kingdom_of_Belgium__Belgique  a monarchy in northwestern Europe; headquarters for the European Common Market and for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  instance of:  #European_country
  member:  #Belgian  #Fleming  #Walloon.Belgian
  member of:  #European_Union  #NATO  #Benelux
  part of:  #Europe
  part:  #Bouvines  in 1214 the French under King Philip Augustus defeated a coalition formed against him in one of the greatest battles of the middle ages
  part:  #battle_of_Fontenoy__Fontenoy  a battle in 1745 in which the French army under Marshal Saxe defeated the English army and their allies under the duke of Cumberland
  part:  #battle_of_Waterloo__Waterloo  the battle on 18 June 1815 in which Napoleon met his final defeat; Prussian and British forces under Blucher and the Duke of Wellington routed the French forces under Napoleon
  part:  #first_battle_of_Ypres__Ypres__battle_of_Ypres  battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others
  part:  #second_battle_of_Ypres__Ypres__battle_of_Ypres  battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient
  part:  #third_battle_of_Ypres__Ypres__battle_of_Ypres  battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery
  part:  #Bruxelles__Brussels__Belgian_capital__capital_of_Belgium  the capital and largest city of Belgium; seat of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  part:  #Antwerpen__Antwerp__Anvers  a port in northern Belgium on the Scheldt river
  part:  #Bruges__City_of_Bridges  a city in northwestern Belgium in West Flanders province; connected by canal to the North Sea; the old city is a popular tourist attraction
  part:  #Charleroi  city in southwestern Belgium; center of an industrial region
  part:  #Gent__Gand__Ghent  port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center; famous for cloth industry
  part:  #Liege__Luik  city in eastern Belgium; largest French-speaking city in Belgium
  part:  #Namur  a city in south central Belgium situated on a promontory between the Meuse River and the Sambre River; the site of intense fighting in World War I and World War II
  part:  #Meuse_River__Meuse  a European river; flows into the North Sea
  part:  #Sambre_River__Sambre  a river in western Europe that rises in northern France and flows generally east into Belgium where it joins the Neuse at Namur
  part:  #Scheldt_River__Scheldt__scheldt  a river that rises in France and flows northeast across Belgium and empties into the North Sea

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