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6 ημέρες πριν · Belgium, country of northwestern Europe. 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. Initially, Belgium had a unitary form of government.
17 Αυγ 2023 · On January 20, 1831, an international conference in London (under the influence of the new liberal governments in France and Britain) recognized Belgium as an independent, neutral state, its neutrality to be guaranteed by the European powers.
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.
Belgium, officially Kingdom of Belgium, Country, northwestern Europe. Area: 11,849 sq mi (30,689 sq km). Population: (2024 est.) 11,870,000. Capital: Brussels. The population consists mostly of Flemings and Walloons.
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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.
Here you can find online selected information about the geography, inhabitants, government, economy and history of Belgium. Included are selected statistics, an overview map and the detailed map of Belgium.