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5 ημέρες πριν · Geographical and historical treatment of Belgium, including maps and a survey of its people, economy, and government. It is one of the smallest and most densely populated European countries, and it has been, since its independence in 1830, a representative democracy headed by a hereditary constitutional monarch.
17 Αυγ 2023 · history of Belgium, a history of Belgium after 1579. For information concerning the period prior to that date, see history of the Low Countries.
Belgium's modern shape can be traced back at least as far as the southern core of the medieval Burgundian Netherlands. The Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) later led to the split between a northern Dutch Republic and the Southern Netherlands from which Belgium and Luxembourg developed.
The country as it exists today was established following the 1830 Belgian Revolution, when it seceded from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, which had incorporated the Southern Netherlands (which comprised most of modern-day Belgium) after the Congress of Vienna in 1815.
The basis of modern Belgium was laid in the southern Catholic provinces that split from the northern provinces after the Union of Utrecht in 1579 (see Netherlands). Annexed by France in 1795, the area was reunited with Holland and with it became the independent Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815.
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11 Σεπ 2024 · This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Belgium, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Belgium.
