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    Provisional Government of Belgium or the General Government of Belgium governed the Southern Netherlands from February 1814 to September 1815, when the Southern...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1815. 1815 (MDCCCXV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on...
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    Méridional in 1815 under Dutch rule, following the defeat of Napoleon. Upon Belgian independence in 1830, it became part of the province of Brabant. In 1977...
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    Netherlands and later Belgium. The province existed for the duration of the United Kingdom, from 1815 to 1830, and for the first years after Belgian independence...
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    modern-day Belgium) after the Congress of Vienna in 1815. The name chosen for the new state is derived from the Latin word Belgium, used in Julius Caesar's...
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    French: Royaume des Belgiques) as it existed between 1815 and 1830. The United Netherlands was created in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars through the...
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  • Thumbnail for Waterloo 1815 Memorial
    Waterloo 1815 Memorial (French: Mémorial Waterloo 1815) is a Belgian museum complex located on the site of the Waterloo battlefield in Belgium. It includes...
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    was a province in Belgium from 1830 to 1995. It was created in 1815 as South Brabant, part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. In 1995, it was split...
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  • Jonkheer (category Belgian noble titles)
    nobility which predates the founding of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815. In Belgium, a number of families may bear the hereditary title of Jonkheer....
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    Dutch Educational Policy in Belgium 1815–30", p 86 Schama, "The Rights of Ignorance: Dutch Educational Policy in Belgium 1815–30", p. 87 J. C. H. Blom;...
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    Prince of Waterloo (category Noble titles created in 1815)
    (Dutch: Prins van Waterloo, French: Prince de Waterloo) is a title in the Dutch and Belgian nobility, held by the Duke of Wellington. The title was created...
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    the Netherlands, formed in 1815. The union broke up in 1830 when the south seceded to form the Kingdom of Belgium. In Belgium's first century, Catholicism...
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    Luxembourg would remain in his possession, and lose its French-speaking parts to the new country of Belgium. At the Vienna Congress of 1815, the great powers...
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    in Belgium which might threaten the European balance of power created by the 1815 Congress of Vienna. Leopold took his oath as King of the Belgians on...
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    the 1815 Battle of Waterloo in Brabant, the Congress of Vienna (1815) gave sovereignty over the Austrian Netherlands – Belgium minus the East Cantons and...
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  • Thumbnail for Belgium in the long nineteenth century
    from roughly 1794 to 1815. In the aftermath of Napoleon's final defeat in 1815, the Congress of Vienna added the territory of Belgium to the United Kingdom...
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  • Thumbnail for 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...
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  • Thumbnail for Belgium in World War I
    The history of Belgium in World War I traces Belgium's role between the German invasion in 1914, through the continued military resistance and occupation...
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    invasion of 1914, Belgium abandoned its policy of neutrality (except for a brief, unsuccessful resumption from 1936 to 1940). Since 1815, Belgium had been a...
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  • Thumbnail for United Belgian States
    known as the United States of Belgium, was a short-lived confederal republic in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium) established under the Brabant...
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    Ghent (redirect from Ghent, Belgium)
    Gand [ɡɑ̃] ; historically known as Gaunt in English) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of...
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    Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord. On 12 June 1815 Napoleon left Paris for modern day Belgium, where the two Coalition armies, an allied one commanded...
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  • its predecessors by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, who was Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte from 1804, and in 1815. Under him sat the effective commander of...
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    of the Belgians from 23 February 1934 until his abdication on 16 July 1951. At the outbreak of World War II, Leopold tried to maintain Belgian neutrality...
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    Austrian Netherlands (category Former states in the Low Countries)
    Despite the tacit support of Prussia, the independent United Belgian States, established in January 1790, received no foreign recognition and soon became...
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    William II of the Netherlands (category People of the Belgian Revolution)
    "History of the War in France and Belgium in 1815", 1844 Knoop, Willem Jan. "Beschouwingen over Siborne’s Geschiedenis van den Oorlog van 1815", 1846 Historisch...
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    The Kingdom of Belgium is divided into three regions. Two of these regions, Flanders and Wallonia, are each subdivided into five provinces. The third...
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    of Belgium is the head of the federal government of Belgium, and the most powerful person in Belgian politics. Although Leaders of Government (French: Chefs...
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    the new gendarmerie service in Belgium was a law dated 17 April 1798, which remained in force until 1957. In 1815, the Belgian provinces became part of the...
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    Gallia Belgica (category Belgium in the Roman era)
    of the Roman Empire located in the north-eastern part of Roman Gaul, in what is today primarily northern France, Belgium, and Luxembourg, along with parts...
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