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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