belgium

Noun
  1. A monarchy in northwestern Europe;
    Headquarters for the European Union and for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (synset 108868745)
    domain member region:
    • bouvines - in 1214 the French under Philip Augustus defeated a coalition formed against him in one of the greatest battles of the middle ages
    • battle of fontenoy, fontenoy - a battle in 1745 in which the French army under Marshal Saxe defeated the English army and their allies under the duke of Cumberland
    • battle of waterloo, waterloo - the battle on 18 June 1815 in which Prussian and British forces under Blucher and the Duke of Wellington routed the French forces under Napoleon
    • battle of ypres, first battle of ypres, ypres - battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others
    • battle of ypres, second battle of ypres, ypres - battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient
    • battle of ypres, third battle of ypres, ypres - battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery
    • commune - the smallest administrative district of several European countries
    is an instance of: european country, european nation - any one of the countries occupying the European continent
    member holonym:
    • belgian - a native or inhabitant of Belgium
    • fleming - a native of Flanders or a Flemish-speaking Belgian
    • walloon - a member of the French-speaking people living in Belgium
    belongs to:
    has:
    • belgian capital, brussels, bruxelles, capital of belgium - the capital and largest city of Belgium; seat of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
    • antwerp, antwerpen, anvers - a busy port and financial center in northern Belgium on the Scheldt river; it has long been a center for the diamond industry and the first stock exchange was opened there in 1460
    • bruges, city of bridges - a city in northwestern Belgium that is connected by canal to the North Sea; in the 13th century it was a leading member of the Hanseatic League; the old city (known as the City of Bridges) is a popular tourist attraction
    • charleroi - city in southwestern Belgium; center of an industrial region
    • gand, gent, ghent - port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center; famous for cloth industry
    • liege, luik - city in eastern Belgium; largest French-speaking city in Belgium
    • namur - a city in south central Belgium situated on a promontory between the Meuse River and the Sambre River; the site of intense fighting in World War I and World War II
    • waterloo - a town in central Belgium where in 1815 Napoleon met his final defeat
    • meuse, meuse river - a European river; flows into the North Sea
    • sambre, sambre river - a river in western Europe that rises in northern France and flows generally east into Belgium where it joins the Meuse at Namur
    • scheldt, scheldt river - a river that rises in France and flows northeast across Belgium and empties into the North Sea
    is a part of: europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
    same as: belgique, kingdom of belgium

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