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1 History
Belgiums 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, ocially bilingual, is a mostly French-speaking
enclave within the Flemish Region.[6] A Germanspeaking Community exists in eastern Wallonia.[7][8] Belgiums linguistic diversity and related political conicts
are reected in its political history and complex system
of government.[9][10]
HISTORY
2.1
Political culture
Politics
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federal parliamentary democracy. The bicameral federal
parliament is composed of a Senate and a Chamber of
Representatives. The former is made up of 50 senators appointed by the parliaments of the communities
and regions and 10 co-opted senators. Prior to 2014,
most of the Senates members were directly elected.
The Chamber's 150 representatives are elected under a
proportional voting system from 11 electoral districts.
Belgium has compulsory voting and thus maintains one
of the highest rates of voter turnout in the world.[29]
Philippe
King since 2013
elections. For more than a year, the country expe- 3 Communities and regions
rienced a political crisis.[41] This crisis was such that
many observers speculated on a possible partition of Bel- Main article: Communities, regions and language areas
gium.[42][43][44] From 21 December 2007 until 20 March of Belgium
2008 the temporary Verhofstadt III Government was in Following a usage which can be traced back to the Buroce. This coalition of the Flemish and Francophone
Christian Democrats, the Flemish and Francophone Liberals together with the Francophone Social Democrats
was an interim government until 20 March 2008.[45]
On that day a new government, led by Flemish Christian
Democrat Yves Leterme, the actual winner of the federal
elections of June 2007, was sworn in by the king. On 15
July 2008 Leterme announced the resignation of the cabinet to the king, as no progress in constitutional reforms
had been made.[45] In December 2008 he once more offered his resignation to the king after a crisis surrounding
the sale of Fortis to BNP Paribas.[46] At this juncture,
his resignation was accepted and Christian Democratic
and Flemish Herman Van Rompuy was sworn in as Prime
Minister on 30 December 2008.[47]
After Herman Van Rompuy was designated the rst permanent President of the European Council on 19 November 2009, he oered the resignation of his government to
King Albert II on 25 November 2009. A few hours later,
the new government under Prime Minister Yves Leterme
was sworn in. On 22 April 2010, Leterme again oered
the resignation of his cabinet to the king[48] after one of
the coalition partners, the OpenVLD, withdrew from the
government, and on 26 April 2010 King Albert ocially
accepted the resignation.[49]
Communities:
Flemish Community / Dutch language area
Flemish & French Community / bilingual language area
French Community / French language area
German-speaking Community / German language area
Regions:
Flemish Region / Dutch language area
Brussels-Capital Region / bilingual area
Walloon Region / French and German language areas
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as their rst language, the Flemings refused to do so and
succeeded progressively in making Dutch an equal language in the education system.[53] Following World War
II, Belgian politics became increasingly dominated by
the autonomy of its two main linguistic communities.[54]
Intercommunal tensions rose and the constitution was
amended to minimise the potential for conict.[54]
policy and public debt, and other aspects of public nances. State-owned companies include the Belgian Post
Group and Belgian Railways. The Federal Government is
responsible for the obligations of Belgium and its federalized institutions towards the European Union and NATO.
It controls substantial parts of public health, home aairs
and foreign aairs.[59] The budgetwithout the debt
Based on the four language areas dened in 196263 controlled by the federal government amounts to about
50% of the national scal income. The federal govern(the Dutch, bilingual, French and German language ar[60]
eas), consecutive revisions of the countrys constitution in ment employs around 12% of the civil servants.
1970, 1980, 1988 and 1993 established a unique form of Communities exercise their authority only within linguisa federal state with segregated political power into three tically determined geographical boundaries, originally
levels:[55][56]
oriented towards the individuals of a Communitys language: culture (including audiovisual media), education
and the use of the relevant language. Extensions to per1. The federal government, based in Brussels.
sonal matters less directly connected with language comprise health policy (curative and preventive medicine) and
2. The three language communities:
assistance to individuals (protection of youth, social wel the Flemish Community (Dutch-speaking);
fare, aid to families, immigrant assistance services, and
so on.).[61]
the French Community (French-speaking);
the German-speaking Community.
Regions have authority in elds that can be broadly associated with their territory. These include economy,
3. The three regions:
employment, agriculture, water policy, housing, public works, energy, transport, the environment, town and
the Flemish Region, subdivided into ve
country planning, nature conservation, credit and foreign
provinces;
trade. They supervise the provinces, municipalities and
the Walloon Region, subdivided into ve intercommunal utility companies.[62]
provinces;
In several elds, the dierent levels each have their own
the Brussels-Capital Region.
say on specics. With education, for instance, the autonomy of the Communities neither includes decisions about
The constitutional language areas determine the ocial the compulsory aspect nor allows for setting minimum
languages in their municipalities, as well as the geo- requirements for awarding qualications, which remain
graphical limits of the empowered institutions for specic federal matters.[59] Each level of government can be inmatters.[57] Although this would allow for seven parlia- volved in scientic research and international relations asments and governments, when the Communities and Re- sociated with its powers. The treaty-making power of the
gions were created in 1980, Flemish politicians decided Regions and Communities Governments is the broadest
to merge both.[58] Thus the Flemings just have one sin- of all the Federating units of all the Federations all over
gle institutional body of parliament and government is the world.[63][64][65]
empowered for all except federal and specic municipal
matters.[nb 2]
The overlapping boundaries of the Regions and Communities have created two notable peculiarities: the territory of the Brussels-Capital Region (which came into
existence nearly a decade after the other regions) is
included in both the Flemish and French Communities, and the territory of the German-speaking Community lies wholly within the Walloon Region. Conicts
about jurisdiction between the bodies are resolved by the
Constitutional Court of Belgium. The structure is intended as a compromise to allow dierent cultures to live
together peacefully.[12]
4 Geography
Main article: Geography of Belgium
Belgium shares borders with France (620 km), Germany
(167 km), Luxembourg (148 km) and the Netherlands
(450 km). Its total area, including surface water area,
is 30,528 square kilometres; land area alone is 30,278
km2 .[66] It lies between latitudes 4930 and 5130 N, and
longitudes 233 and 624 E.[67]
GEOGRAPHY
4.1 Provinces
polders. Further inland lies a smooth, slowly rising landscape irrigated by numerous waterways, with fertile valleys and the northeastern sandy plain of the Campine
(Kempen). The thickly forested hills and plateaux of the
Ardennes are more rugged and rocky with caves and small
Antwerp
gorges. Extending westward into France, this area is eastEast
wardly connected to the Eifel in Germany by the High Flanders
Fens plateau, on which the Signal de Botrange forms the
Flemish
countrys highest point at 694 metres (2,277 ft).[69][70]
Brabant
The climate is maritime temperate with signicant precipitation in all seasons (Kppen climate classication:
Cfb), like most of northwest Europe.[71] The average tem- Hainaut
perature is lowest in January at 3 C (37.4 F) and highest
Lige
in July at 18 C (64.4 F). The average precipitation per
month varies between 54 millimetres (2.1 in) for February or April, to 78 mm (3.1 in) for July.[72] Averages Limburg
for the years 2000 to 2006 show daily temperature minimums of 7 C (44.6 F) and maximums of 14 C (57.2
F) and monthly rainfall of 74 mm (2.9 in); these are Luxembourg
about 1 C and nearly 10 millimetres above last centurys
normal values, respectively.[73]
Namur
Phytogeographically, Belgium is shared between the AtWalloon Brabant
lantic European and Central European provinces of the
[74]
Circumboreal Region within the Boreal Kingdom. AcWest
cording to the World Wide Fund for Nature, the territory
Flanders
of Belgium belongs to the ecoregion of Atlantic mixed
Flanders
forests.[75] Because of its high population density, its locaWallonia
tion in the centre of Western Europe and inadequate poBrussels
litical eort, Belgium faces serious environmental probMain
article: Provinces of Belgium
lems. A 2003 report suggested Belgian natural waters (rivers and groundwater) to have the lowest water
quality of the 122 countries studied.[76] In the 2006 pi- The territory of Belgium is divided into three Regions,
lot Environmental Performance Index, Belgium scored two of which, the Flemish Region and Walloon Region,
75.9% for overall environmental performance and was are in turn subdivided into provinces; the third Region,
ranked lowest of the EU member countries, though it was the Brussels Capital Region, is neither a province nor a
part of a province.
only 39th of 133 countries.[77]
Economy
transport infrastructure are integrated with the rest of Europe. Its location at the heart of a highly industrialized region helped make it the worlds 15th largest trading nation
in 2007.[79][80] The economy is characterized by a highly
productive work force, high GNP and high exports per
capita.[81] Belgiums main imports are raw materials, machinery and equipment, chemicals, raw diamonds, pharmaceuticals, foodstus, transportation equipment, and oil
products. Its main exports are machinery and equipment,
chemicals, nished diamonds, metals and metal products,
and foodstus.[66]
The Belgian economy is heavily service-oriented and
shows a dual nature: a dynamic Flemish economy and
a Walloon economy that lags behind.[12][82][nb 3] One of
the founding members of the European Union, Belgium strongly supports an open economy and the extension of the powers of EU institutions to integrate
member economies. Since 1922, through the BelgiumLuxembourg Economic Union, Belgium and Luxem-
Military
Further information: Science and technology in Brussels, Science and technology in Flanders, and Science and
technology in Wallonia
Contributions to the development of science and technology have appeared throughout the countrys history. The 16th century Early Modern ourishing of
Western Europe included cartographer Gerardus Mercator, anatomist Andreas Vesalius, herbalist Rembert Dodoens[100][101][102][103] and mathematician Simon Stevin
Gerardus Mercator
8.1
Languages
Demographics
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Belgium are Moroccans, with more than 450,000[120]
people. The Turks are the third largest group, and
the second largest Muslim ethnic group, numbering
220,000.[120][122] 89.2% of inhabitants of Turkish origin have been naturalized, as have 88.4% of people of
Moroccan background, 75.4% of Italians, 56.2% of the
French and 47.8% of Dutch people.[121]
8.1 Languages
Main article: Languages of Belgium
Belgium has three ocial languages, which are (in or-
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8 DEMOGRAPHICS
spoken occasionally, mostly by elderly people. Wallonias had an important role in Belgiums politics.[137] Howdialects, along with those of Picard,[130] are not used in ever Belgium is largely a secular country as the laicist
public life and have been replaced by French.
constitution provides for freedom of religion, and the government generally respects this right in practice. During
the reigns of Albert I and Baudouin, the monarchy had a
8.2 Education
reputation of deeply rooted Catholicism.[138]
Main article: Education in Belgium
Education is compulsory from 6 to 18 years of age
for Belgians.[131] Among OECD countries in 2002, Belgium had the third highest proportion of 18- to 21-yearolds enrolled in postsecondary education, at 42%.[132]
Though an estimated 99% of the adult population is literate, concern is rising over functional illiteracy.[130][133]
The Programme for International Student Assessment
(PISA), coordinated by the OECD, currently ranks Belgiums education as the 19th best in the world, being signicantly higher than the OECD average.[134] Education
being organised separately by each, the Flemish Community scores noticeably above the French and Germanspeaking Communities.[135]
Mirroring the dual structure of the 19th-century Belgian political landscape, characterized by the Liberal and
the Catholic parties, the educational system is segregated
within a secular and a religious segment. The secular branch of schooling is controlled by the communities, the provinces, or the municipalities, while religious,
mainly Catholic branch education, is organised by religious authorities, although subsidized and supervised by
the communities.[136]
Roman Catholicism has traditionally been Belgiums majority religion; being especially strong in Flanders. However, by 2009 Sunday church attendance was 5% for Belgium in total; 3% in Brussels,[139] and 5.4% in Flanders.
Church attendance in 2009 in Belgium was roughly half
of the Sunday church attendance in 1998 (11% for the
total of Belgium in 1998).[140] Despite the drop in church
attendance, Catholic identity nevertheless remains an important part of Belgiums culture.[138]
Symbolically and materially, the Roman Catholic Church
remains in a favourable position.[138] Belgium has three
ocially recognized religions: Christianity (Catholic,
Protestantism, Orthodoxy and Anglicanism), Islam and
Judaism.[141]
In the early 2000s there were approximately 42,000 Jews
in Belgium. The Jewish Community of Antwerp (numbering some 18,000) is one of the largest in Europe, and
one of the last places in the world where Yiddish is the
primary language of a large Jewish community (mirroring
certain Orthodox and Hassidic communities in New York
and Israel). In addition most Jewish children in Antwerp
receive a Jewish education.[142] There are several Jewish
newspapers and more than 45 active synagogues (30 of
which are in Antwerp) in the country.
A 2006 inquiry in Flanders, considered to be a more religious region than Wallonia, showed that 55% considered
8.3 Religion
themselves religious and that 36% believed that God created the universe.[143] On the other hand, Wallonia has
Main article: Religion in Belgium
become one of Europes most secular/least religious reSince the countrys independence, Roman Catholicism, gions. Most of the French-speaking regions population
does not consider religion an important part of their lives,
and as much as 45% of the population identies as irreligious. This is particularly the case in eastern Wallonia
and areas along the French border.
A 2008 estimate found[144] that 6% of the Belgian population, about 628,751, is Muslim (98% Sunni), while
a 2011 estimate claims 1,000,000 inhabitants of Muslim background in the country.[145] Muslims constitute 22.0%[146] of the population of Brussels, 4.0% of
Wallonia and 3.9% of Flanders. The majority of Belgian
Muslims live in the major cities, such as Antwerp, Brussels and Charleroi. The largest group of immigrants in
Belgium are Moroccans, with 400,000[120] people. The
Turks are the third largest group, and the second largest
Muslim ethnic group, numbering 220,000.[120][122]
According to the Eurobarometer Poll in 2010, 37% of
Belgian citizens responded that they believe there is a
God, whereas 31% answered that they believe there is
National Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Koekelberg, Brussels.
some sort of spirit or life force and 27% that they do not
counterbalanced by strong freethought movements, has believe there is any sort of spirit, God, or life force.[147]
9.1
8.4
Fine arts
Health
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in the country except the Royal Military Academy and the
Antwerp Maritime Academy, no common media[151] and
no single large cultural or scientic organisation in which
both main communities are represented.[152]
Culture
especially rich. The Mosan art, the Early Netherlandish,[153] the Flemish Renaissance and Baroque painting[154] and major examples of Romanesque, Gothic,
Renaissance and Baroque architecture[155] are milestones
in the history of art. While the 15th centurys art in
the Low Countries is dominated by the religious paintings of Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, the
16th century is characterized by a broader panel of styles
such as Peter Breughel's landscape paintings and Lambert
Lombard's representation of the antique.[156] Though the
Baroque style of Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van
Dyck ourished in the early 17th century in the Southern
Netherlands,[157] it gradually declined thereafter.[158][159]
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9 CULTURE
9.2
Folklore
9.3 Cuisine
Main article: Belgian cuisine
Many highly ranked Belgian restaurants can be found
in the most inuential restaurant guides, such as
the Michelin Guide.[171] Belgium is famous for beer,
chocolate, waes and french fries with mayonnaise. Contrary to their name, french fries are claimed to have originated in Belgium, although their exact place of origin is
uncertain. The national dishes are steak and fries with
salad, and "mussels with fries".[172][173][174]
Brands of Belgian chocolate and pralines, like Cte d'Or,
Neuhaus, Leonidas and Godiva are famous, as well as
independent producers such as Burie and Del Rey in
Antwerp and Marys in Brussels.[175] Belgium produces
over 1100 varieties of beer.[176][177] The Trappist beer
of the Abbey of Westvleteren has repeatedly been rated
the worlds best beer.[178][179][180] The biggest brewer in
the world by volume is Anheuser-Busch InBev, based in
Leuven.[181]
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9.4
Sports
Kim Clijsters was WTA Player of the Year in 2005 and 2010
10 See also
Outline of Belgium
Index of Belgium-related articles
Belgium Wikipedia book
Energy in Belgium
Foreign relations of Belgium
Transportation in Belgium
11 Notes
The Belgium national football team in 2013
[1] Belgium is also a member of, or aliated to, many international organizations, including ACCT, AfDB, AsDB,
Australia Group, Benelux, BIS, CCC, CE, CERN, EAPC,
EBRD, EIB, EMU, ESA, EU, FAO, G-10, IAEA, IBRD,
ICAO, ICC, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS,
IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Intelsat, Interpol, IOC,
IOM, ISO, ITU, MONUC (observers), NATO, NEA,
NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW, OSCE, PCA,
UN, UNCTAD, UNECE, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO,
UNMIK, UNMOGIP, UNRWA, UNTSO, UPU, WADB
(non-regional), WEU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTrO, ZC.
[2] The Constitution set out seven institutions each of which
can have a parliament, government and administration. In
fact there are only six such bodies because the Flemish
Region merged into the Flemish Community. This single Flemish body thus exercises powers about Community
matters in the bilingual area of Brussels-Capital and in the
Dutch language area, while about Regional matters only in
Flanders.
[3] The richest (per capita income) of Belgiums three regions
is the Flemish Region, followed by the Walloon Region
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and lastly the Brussels-Capital Region. The ten municipalities with the highest reported income are: LaethemSaint-Martin, Keerbergen, Lasne, Oud-Heverlee, Hove,
De Pinte, Meise, Knokke-Heist, Bierbeek.O habitent
les Belges les plus riches?". trends.be. 2010. Retrieved
15 July 2011.
[4] Native speakers of Dutch living in Wallonia and of French
in Flanders are relatively small minorities that furthermore
largely balance one another, hence attributing all inhabitants of each unilingual area to the areas language can
cause only insignicant inaccuracies (99% can speak the
language). Dutch: Flanders 6.079 million inhabitants
and about 15% of Brussels 1.019 million are 6.23 million or 59.3% of the 10.511 million inhabitants of Belgium (2006); German: 70,400 in the German-speaking
Community (which has language facilities for its less than
5% French-speakers) and an estimated 20,00025,000
speakers of German in the Walloon Region outside the
geographical boundaries of their ocial Community, or
0.9%; French: in the latter area as well as mainly in the
rest of Wallonia (3.414 0.093 = 3.321 million) and 85%
of the Brussels inhabitants (0.866 million) thus 4.187 million or 39.8%; together indeed 100%.
[5] Flemish Academic Eric Corijn (initiator of Charta 91),
at a colloquium regarding Brussels, on 2001-12-05, states
that in Brussels there is 91% of the population speaking
French at home, either alone or with another language,
and there is about 20% speaking Dutch at home, either
alone (9%) or with French (11%)After ponderation,
the repartition can be estimated at between 85 and 90%
French-speaking, and the remaining are Dutch-speaking,
corresponding to the estimations based on languages chosen in Brussels by citizens for their ocial documents (ID,
driving licenses, weddings, birth, sex, and so on); all these
statistics on language are also available at Belgian Department of Justice (for weddings, birth, sex), Department of
Transport (for Driving licenses), Department of Interior
(for IDs), because there are no means to know precisely the
proportions since Belgium has abolished 'ocial' linguistic censuses, thus ocial documents on language choices
can only be estimations. For a web source on this topic,
see e.g. General online sources: Janssens, Rudi
[6] Notable Belgian lms based on works by Flemish authors include: De Witte (author Ernest Claes) movie by
Jan Vanderheyden and Edith Kiel in 1934, remake as De
Witte van Sichem directed by Robbe De Hert in 1980; De
man die zijn haar kort liet knippen (Johan Daisne) Andr
Delvaux 1965; Mira ('De teleurgang van de Waterhoek'
by Stijn Streuvels) Fons Rademakers 1971; Malpertuis
(aka The Legend of Doom House) (Jean Ray [pen name
of Flemish author who mainly wrote in French, or as
John Flanders in Dutch]) Harry Kmel 1971; De loteling
(Hendrik Conscience) Roland Verhavert 1974; Dood van
een non (Maria Rosseels) Paul Collet and Pierre Drouot
1975; Pallieter (Felix Timmermans) Roland Verhavert
1976; De komst van Joachim Stiller (Hubert Lampo)
Harry Kmel 1976; De Leeuw van Vlaanderen (Hendrik
Conscience) Hugo Claus (a famous author himself) 1985;
Daens ('Pieter Daens by Louis Paul Boon) Stijn Coninx
1992; see also Filmarchief les DVD!s de la cinmathque
(in Dutch). Retrieved on 7 June 2007.
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File:Coat_of_arms_of_Flemish_Brabant.svg Source:
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Flemish_Brabant.svg License: CC-BY-SA-3.0 Contributors: This vector image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from
this: (by Katepanomegas). Original artist: Katepanomegas
File:Coat_of_arms_of_Walloon_Brabant.svg Source:
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Walloon_Brabant.svg License: CC-BY-SA-3.0 Contributors: This vector image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from
this: (by Katepanomegas). Original artist: Ssolbergj
File:Commons-logo.svg Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg License: ? Contributors: ? Original
artist: ?
File:Communities_of_Belgium.svg Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Communities_of_Belgium.svg License: CC-BY-SA-3.0 Contributors: This vector image was created with Inkscape. Original artist: Ssolbergj
File:Diksmuide_-_Polders_-_IJzer.jpg Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Diksmuide_-_Polders_-_IJzer.
jpg License: CC-BY-SA-3.0 Contributors: Own work Original artist: LimoWreck
File:Domino_-_Jacques_Brel_5.jpg Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Domino_-_Jacques_Brel_5.jpg License: CC-BY-SA-3.0-nl Contributors: Nationaal Archief Original artist: Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Rijksfotoarchief: Fotocollectie Algemeen Nederlands Fotopersbureau (ANEFO), 1945-1989 - negatiefstroken zwart/wit, nummer toegang 2.24.01.05, bestanddeelnummer
914-8399
File:EU-Belgium.svg Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/EU-Belgium.svg License: CC-BY-SA-3.0 Contributors: Location European nation states.svg Original artist: NuclearVacuum
File:Europe_(orthographic_projection).svg
Source:
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%28orthographic_projection%29.svg License: CC-BY-SA-3.0 Contributors: This vector image was created with Inkscape. Original artist: Ssolbergj
File:Europe_green_light.png Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Europe_green_light.png License: Public
domain Contributors: Own work Original artist: Aegean Boy
File:Eyck.hubert.lamb.750pix.jpg Source:
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License: Public domain Contributors: Web Gallery of Art: <a href='http://www.wga.hu/art/e/eyck_van/jan/09ghent/1open.jpg' datax-rel='nofollow'><img alt='Inkscape.svg' src='//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Inkscape.svg/20px-Inkscape.
svg.png' width='20' height='20' srcset='//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Inkscape.svg/30px-Inkscape.svg.png
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alt='Information
icon.svg'
src='//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Information_icon.svg/20px-Information_
icon.svg.png'
width='20'
height='20'
srcset='//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Information_icon.
svg/30px-Information_icon.svg.png
1.5x,
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40px-Information_icon.svg.png 2x' data-le-width='620' data-le-height='620' /></a> Info about artwork Original artist: Jan van
Eyck (circa 13901441)
File:Flag_Belgium_brussels.svg Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Flag_Belgium_brussels.svg License:
CC-BY-3.0 Contributors: Own work Original artist: Ssolbergj
File:Flag_of_Belgium.svg Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Flag_of_Belgium.svg License: Public domain
Contributors: Van den Bussche, E., Chief of Protocol, Belgian Federal Department of the Interior (2008) Noble Belgique, Mre chrie LE PROTOCOLE EN BELGIQUE (PROTOCOL IN BELGIUM), Heule: Editions UGA ISBN: 9789067689359. Original artist: Dbenbenn and
others
File:Flag_of_Belgium_(civil).svg Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg
License: Public domain Contributors: ? Original artist: ?
File:Flag_of_Europe.svg Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Flag_of_Europe.svg License: Public domain
Contributors:
File based on the specication given at [1]. Original artist: User:Verdy p, User:-x-, User:Paddu, User:Nightstallion, User:Funakoshi,
User:Jeltz, User:Dbenbenn, User:Zscout370
File:Flag_of_Flanders.svg Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Flag_of_Flanders.svg License: Public domain
Contributors: De vlag van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap + various ocial publications.
An example of the actual ag Original artist: Lemmens, Tom
File:Flag_of_La_Francophonie.svg Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Flag_of_La_Francophonie.svg License: Public domain Contributors: Based on Image:Francophonie 1987.png. Original artist: Denelson83
File:Flag_of_NATO.svg Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Flag_of_NATO.svg License: Public domain
Contributors: www.nato.int Original artist:
Vectorized by Mysid and uploaded to Flag of NATO.svg
File:Flag_of_Wallonia.svg Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Flag_of_Wallonia.svg License: CC0 Contributors: Coq de Paulus Original artist: Lemmens, Tom
File:Folder_Hexagonal_Icon.svg Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/48/Folder_Hexagonal_Icon.svg License: Cc-bysa-3.0 Contributors: ? Original artist: ?
File:Gent_vanuit_Meestentoren1.JPG Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Gent_vanuit_Meestentoren1.
JPG License: Public domain Contributors: Own work (photo personnelle) Original artist: Torsade de Pointes
File:Great_Coat_of_Arms_of_Belgium.svg Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Great_coat_of_arms_of_
Belgium.svg License: CC-BY-SA-3.0 Contributors: Own work, elements by Ssolbergj and Katepanomegas; Based on :File:Greater Coat of
Arms of Belgium.png Original artist: Sodacan
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