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Transport in Belgium is excellent with a well established rail and road network. The main cities of Brussels, Bruges, Antwerp and Ghent offer a distinctly European style of historic buildings, markets and café bars and restaurants. They ... offer a host of sights to see with innumerable shops, museums and galleries. Belgium is famous for beer. chocolate, diamonds, lace and speciality markets such as antiques. The tourist does not need to any special arrangements other than those one would normally make when visiting a first world foreign country.
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Belgium is governed under the constitution of 1831 as amended; revisions in 1993 established a federal state. Its government is a federal parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarchy. The head of state is the hereditary monarch; the head of government is the prime minister. There is a bicameral Parliament with a 71-member Senate and a 150-seat Chamber of Representatives (or Chamber of Deputies). Political divisions fall into three main groups—Christian Democrats, Liberals, and Socialists—each of these again divided into political parties constituted along linguistic lines. The country is divided into two regions (Flanders and Wallonia) that each comprise five provinces and the capital region; there are ... three linguistic communities (Dutch, French, and German).
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In Belgium, Descamps replaces De Windt as sales leader. In addition to assuming the director of Sales role, Descamps has ... been appointed as country manager for Belgium and Luxemburg and is based in Brussels. Before this appointment, he held a senior management position in AT&T's pre-sales organization. Descamps brings more than 15 years of experience in telecommunications to his new role.
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Belgium derives its name from the Latin name of the northernmost part of Gaul, Gallia Belgica, named after a group of mostly Celtic tribes, Belgae. Historically, Belgium has been a part of the Low Countries, which ... include the Netherlands and Luxembourg and used to cover a somewhat larger region than the current Benelux group of states. From the end of the Middle Ages until the seventeenth century, it was a prosperous centre of commerce and culture. From the sixteenth century until the Belgian revolution in 1830, the area at that time called the Southern Netherlands, was the site of many battles between the European powers, and has been dubbed “the battlefield of Europe” or “the cockpit of Europe”. More recently, Belgium was a founding member of the European Union, hosting its headquarters, as well as those of many other major international organizations, such as NATO.
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Belgium is a country with several official languages. Due to the fact that it shares a border with Italy, Sweden, The Moon and North Korea, Italian, Swedish and Korean are spoken. The northern part of Belgium consists mostly of Swedish speakers, while the official language in the south is Italian. Waffles? There is a small minority of Korean speakers in the east, but it is not officially recognized, unlike Swedish and Italian, local species of true metals ... seem to communicate with each other using grunting, or was is barking? Waffles?
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Located at the crossroads of the European continent on the Atlantic Coast, the nation of Belgium offers all that makes Europe a great vacation destination; food, art, and culture. The lucky guests of Belgium’s vacation homes, rentals, and villas have the privilege to experience the uniqueness and attractiveness of this historic nation during their stay in the country. The cities of Ghent, Bruges, Brussels, and Antwerp are the largest population centers in Belgium, each offering its own unique allure and intriguing historical tales. Each part of Belgium has a different story to tell; there are commercial port cities and ancient castles, old buildings and modern museums spread all throughout the nation.
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