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Since 1993 it has been a federal state, in which the autonomous regions of Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels and the three linguistic communities of French, Dutch and German are recognized. The German community is administratively united with Wallonia. Physical characteristics The town is formed to the North by an alluvial lowland and to the South… Read More »

Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815-30) The Congress of Vienna (1814-15) combined the northern and southern Netherlands with the Principality of Liège to form a kingdom under the House of Orange-Nassau. The Belgian consciousness promoted in the French period, v. a. But the constantly growing resentment against King Wilhelm I because of his rigid unification policy,… Read More »