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    The Belgian Building, also known as the Belgian Friendship Building and Belgian Pavilion, is a historic building complex located in Richmond, Virginia...
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  • high-rise buildings). The rest of the skyscrapers are scattered among Belgium's secondary cities. The South Tower, the tallest building in Belgium and formerly...
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    Commission, the Belgian Public Works Ministry, the contractors and the architects could draw up the plans. However, the Belgian State desired a building not just...
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    site of the Belgian monarchy Official site of the Belgian federal government Belgium. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. Belgium at UCB Libraries...
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    Hague. Following Belgian independence in 1830, the Provisional Government of Belgium and Belgian National Congress moved into the building and the first...
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    the federal government of Belgium, and the most powerful person in Belgian politics. The first head of government in Belgian history was Henri van der...
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    financial bodies; and services for the Belgian State, the Belgian financial sector, and the general public. The Belgian government has held half of the National...
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    which were co-founded by the Belgian team's supervising body, the Royal Belgian Football Association. Periods of regular Belgian representation at the highest...
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    Museum aan de Stroom (category Belgian building and structure stubs)
    at the Hanzestedenplaats. On 14 September 2006 the first brick of the building was laid. In 2010 museum objects arrived from various other museums like...
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    of Dutch. Words which are unique to Belgian Dutch are called belgicisms (as are words used primarily in Belgian French). The original Brabantian dialect...
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  • Catholic University of Brussels (category Belgian building and structure stubs)
    the Flemish Community of Belgium in the early 1990s. It only ever awarded basic undergraduate degrees, which in the older Belgian system of a four-year licenciate...
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    for boarders. The Belgian government later used the site for various Belgian state school establishments, building dedicated buildings for classrooms on...
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    The Belgian Congo (French: Congo belge, pronounced [kɔ̃ɡo bɛlʒ]; Dutch: Belgisch-Congo) was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence...
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    Belgium controlled several territories and concessions during the colonial era, principally the Belgian Congo (modern DR Congo) from 1908 to 1960, Ruanda-Urundi...
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    Groeningemuseum (category Belgian building and structure stubs)
    municipal museum in Bruges, Belgium, built on the site of the medieval Eekhout Abbey. It houses a collection of Flemish and Belgian painting covering six centuries...
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    1830 Belgian Revolution, establishing the modern Belgian state, officially recognized at the London Conference of 1830. The first King of Belgium, Leopold...
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    honouring the entire Belgian comics industry. In 1983, Belgian Minister of Public Works, Louis Olivier, decided that the building would be bought by the...
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    order, intervened with Brussels and the Belgian-German talks were called off. The new cantons had been part of Belgium for just 20 years when, in 1940, they...
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    States of Belgium) made at a nearby fabric store. As a result, Article 193 of the Constitution of Belgium describes the colours of the Belgian nation as...
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    succeeded his father to the Belgian throne in 1865 and reigned for 44 years until his death, the longest reign of a Belgian monarch to date. He died without...
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  • most buildings of both types are labelled as 'castles' in this list. Many members of the old Belgian noble families still live in castles (see Belgian nobility)...
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    Vierendeel bridge (category Belgian building and structure stubs)
    bridge employing a Vierendeel truss, named after Arthur Vierendeel, a Belgian engineer who proposed this new bridge girder-type without diagonals in...
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    his death, his son, King Leopold II, envisaged building a Belgian Panthéon dedicated to Great Belgians there, inspired by the French Panthéon in Paris...
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    The Jacques Delors building is an office building in the European Quarter of Brussels, Belgium, which houses the European Economic and Social Committee...
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    After the war, in 1947, the Belgian Government bought the complex and used Bloc A (the north-eastern L-shaped building) for administrative offices. At...
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    adheres to Islam. The first registered presence of Islam in Belgium was in 1829, but most Belgian Muslims are first-, second-, or third-generation immigrants...
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  • Virginia Union University (category University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia)
    Hall, built as the Belgian Building for the 1939 New York World's Fair. The building, which has stone reliefs depicting the Belgian Congo, was one of thirteen...
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    Sett (paving) (redirect from Belgian Blocks)
    to be maintained and replaced today. Streets in Belgian towns are historically layered with Belgian blocks, both in the centre areas and the outer residential...
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  • UAV Squadron (Belgium) - 1920 Summer Olympics – 1931 Belgian Grand Prix - 1935 Belgian Grand Prix - 1947 Belgian Grand Prix - 1949 Belgian Grand Prix -...
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    Schaerbeek Municipal Hall (category Belgian building and structure stubs)
    Gemeentehuis) of Schaerbeek is the municipal hall building and the seat of that municipality of Brussels, Belgium. Designed by the architect Jules Jacques Van...
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