kingdom of belgium

1. 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:

   • common market, ec, eec, eu, europe, european community, european economic community, european union - an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members
   • nato, north atlantic treaty organization - an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security
   • benelux - a customs union comprising Belgium and Netherlands and Luxembourg
   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, belgium

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