Largest World Countries: belgium
The Kingdom of Belgium pronounced b ld m 160 listen BEL-j m is a country in northwest Europe It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those of other major international organizations including NATO Belgium covers an area of 30 528 160 square kilometres 11 787 160 sq 160 mi and has a population of about 10 7 million Straddling the cultural boundary between Germanic and Latin Europe Belgium is home to two main linguistic groups the Flemish and the French-speakers mostly Walloons plus a small group of German-speakers Belgium's two largest regions are the Dutch-speaking region of Flanders in the north and the French-speaking southern region of Wallonia The Brussels-Capital Region officially bilingual is a mostly French-speaking enclave within the Flemish Region The name 'Belgium' is derived from Gallia Belgica a Roman province in the northernmost part of Gaul that was inhabited by the Belgae a mix of…Read More about belgium at WikiPedia
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im doing a project on belgium for school and i need to find out some things the people do there, also i need to find information on the people and music they have there. thanks
Answer:Hello, Famous for beer yes, Trappist was never else then here in Belgium. Chocolates yes very good, but Leonidas is not real chocolate the real ones are Providas,Neuhaus, Code d'or, Callebaut. Mussels in Brussels?? Well yes you can eat them over there but the best are on the coast like Blankenberge or Ostend (Oostende). Antwerp is Antwerpen. We have here at Antwerp the museum of folklore where you can see old music instruments, we have here in Antwerp 80 different museums and churches. Belgium is good for:Beer, Chocolates,food, Museums,Arts. Bad for politics and to life in it's full with corruption.
France was planning to attack Germany through Belgium Britain had a deal with Belgium defend Belgium's neutrality France dropped it's plans for invading Belgium but what if it had and the Germans didn't.
Answer:It is without a doubt that in the mid 18th century, Britain would have helped defend Belgium from any invasion force, including the French becuase of the Treaty of London. This was becuase Belgium was one of the busiest routes for Britain to transport supplies and trade into mainland Europe. However, in the later stages of the 18th century, Britain would not have dared to attack France, mainly becuase of the 1,000,000 Prussian force that was invading the western part of Europe. Britain would not have wanted to have taken sides at that time becuase her army was too small to contend against the Prussian force and if it joined the French, then it would have lost. As a result, when the Prussians did attack Belgium,Gladstone, the Prime Minister at that time, resorted to diplomatic means to fend off the Prussian invasion force and therefore saved Britain from active military contribution to the Franco-Prussian War. In the 20th century, Britain wouldn't have invaded France because France, Britain and Russia had signed a Treaty declaring that they will not fight one another. But France would not have invaded Belgium becuase it was acting as a small buffer zone against the German Army, which was by this stage becoming quite a threat. By attacking Belgium therefore, France would have weakened herself against an almost inevitable German invasion. As it so happened, the Belgians did a grand job in slowing the advance of the German Army in 1914, at the outbreak of WW1 and the Schlieffen Plan. So in the mid 18th century, Britain probably would have attacked France, especially as the Napoleonic War was just 3 or decades before, but in the late 19th century, it wouldn't because it was just too weak. In the 20th century, it wouldn't have as well beucase of a signed Treaty.
I'm planning to go to grad school in Ghent, Belgium and would like to know if I could work to support my expenses while studyting. Thank you.
Answer:That is a possibility especially if you are a EU citizen. However, I would recommend talking to your international students counselor about this in order to understand what the legal implications are - if any. Good Luck! ps.- I published an article on Belgium which you may like: http://www.macquil.com/articles/belgium.php
I am doing a project on Belgium and this is a question.
Answer:lol Belgium has 2 major regions: Flanders and Wallonie. In Flanders (in the North) people speak Dutch, in Wallonie people speak French. Always did, or at least since in the North of Europe the "Germans" lived and in the South the "Romans". At least that is the easy part... In the 1800's it was common the higher class spoke French. This was because Flanders has different periods of French occupation, and the educated rich class liked to speak French to make a difference with the unskilled lower class.So that was the situation at 1830 when Belgium was created. But more and more people (also from the rich class) started to react to this situation, and finally Dutch became also an official language. Around 1960 an officially language-border was put in the law. But the French-speaking community didn't agree that the capital Brussel, in the Flemish part, became totally Dutch-speaking. So a bilingual area was created, and some surrounding Flemish cities had to give "facilities" to the French speaking people. Most original inhabitants of Brussel speak a kind of mix between Dutch and French. With the immigration of many Turkish and Marocan people, and later with the European headquarters, French is spreading out, even in the Flemish community around Brussels... Some site-notes: - before the officially split there was also a plan to make Belgium totally bilingual - till 1968 French was the official language at the University of Leuven, a Flemish city. In 1968 the government falls after the many protests against this and Dutch become the official language - since World War I a small part of Germany became part of Belgium and later German became the third official language of Belgium - later on more and more departments of the Federal Government were split and are now regional matter. - all children in Belgium start learning the second language at least at the age of 10. But it is a fact that most Flemish people are better in French than Wallonian people in Dutch. Since Dutch is a small language in the world, almost all Flemish people also speak English and a lot of them speak even German (and nowadays also Spain is popular). There is much more to tell about it, but I'm afraid that is too compliated for here...
Why would a American father try and prevent the Belgium mother, from returning to Belgium with her daughter but eventually succeeded when an US federal judge ordered the child returned to Belgium? The child is a citizen of Belgium and the United States, but was born in Belgium to a Belgium mother. Basically mother and child have lived in Belgium their entire lives.
Answer:So he can be with the child and mother? I'm sorry you're not very clear on what you mean. There are a couple of ways the child can be american. her parents are naturalized, one parent is american, she was born in the US, or she is under 18 when parents are naturalized.