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Brussels lies in the north-central part of Belgium, about 110 km (68 mi) from the Belgian coast and about 180 km (110 mi) from Belgium's southern tip. It is located in the heartland of the Brabantian Plateau, about 45 km (28 mi) south of Antwerp ( Flanders ), and 50 km (31 mi) north of Charleroi ( Wallonia ).
Brussels is a centre of political activity with ambassadors to Belgium, NATO and the EU being based in the city. It hosts 120 international institutions, 181 embassies ( intra muros) and more than 2,500 diplomats, making it the second centre of diplomatic relations in the world (after New York City ).
Jan 17, 2023 · Why and how Madrid became the capital of Spain dates back to the reign of King Filipe II, 1556 – 1598. Prior to this Madrid was a reasonable large, by medieval standards a fortified town with the original Moorish ‘Alcazar’ re built by Carlos V, father of Filipe II. Whilst it lacked the historical splendour and magnificence of the medieval ...
Apr 21, 2017 · The Brussels historian sees clear parallels between how Brussels became the de facto centre of Europe by financing the building of European institutions and assuming the costs of the international institutions. In the same manner, 500 years ago, the town of Brussels was busy ensuring itself a place as the main residence for Burgundian and ...
Sep 7, 2014 · But riots break out in Wallonia, even calling for the creation of a Walloon republic. On 30 July 1950, the police shoots at demonstrators in a suburb of Liège and kills four of them. Two days later, king Leopold III decides to abdicate. On 16 July 1951, his son Baudouin becomes officially the fifth king of Belgium.
Charles was very attached to his homeland and spent a large part of his life in Brussels and various Flemish cities. The Spanish inheritance, resulting from a dynastic union of the crowns of Castile and Aragon , included Spain as well as the Castilian possessions in the Americas (the Spanish West Indies and the Province of Tierra Firme ) and ...
The Empire of Charles V, also known by the umbrella term Habsburg Empire, included the Holy Roman Empire, the Spanish empire, the Burgundian Low Countries, the Austrian lands, and all the territories and dominions ruled in personal union by Charles V from 1519 to 1556. It was the first to be labelled as "the empire on which the sun never sets ...
