Belgium

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Belgium
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The middle of Europe
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The country

• Area of 32.545 m3
• 10.472 inhabitants
• capital Brussel
• Flanders (Dutch)
• Wallonie (French)

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• In Belgium there are 3 official languages
• Dutch (yellow) 60
• French (red) 40
• German (blue) 1

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Arendonk
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History

• 1815 together with the Netherlands
• 1830 Independent
• WOI
• WOII
• Tensions between Wallonie and Flanders

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History

• World War I
• 1914-1918
• war in tranches
• against Germany

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• WO II
• 1941-1945
• Against Germany/Italy/Japan
• Hitler
• Third empire
• Holocaust on the Jews

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Monarchie

• King Albert II
• Queen Paola
• Three children Filip-Astrid-Laurent

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First ministre Guy Verhofstadt
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Politic

• federal state composed of three communities,
  three regions and four linguistic regions
• Communities Flamish community, french-speaking
  community and the German community
• Regions Brussels-capital region Flamish region
  walloon region
• Flanders Wallonia own parliament, governement
  and administration

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Schoolsystem

• Nursery school 3-6 year
• Primar school 6-12 year
• All together
• Secondary school 12-18 year
• Choses ASO/TSO/BSO
• High School/University
• You have to go to school till youre 18
• Level is high

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Brussel

• Capital of Belgium
• Biligual part (French and Dutch)
• Europese centre
• European commission
• council of the european union
• Part of european parliament
• NAVO (The North Altantic Treaty Organisation)

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Brussel
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Antwerp
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Brugge
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Beers

• About 680 different sorts of beers in Belgium
• Stella Artois, Duvel, Leffe

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Chocolat

• Pralines are very famous, as present
• People eat between the 9.5 8.7 kg chocolat per
  year Top 3 in Europe
• Neuheus, Leonidas

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French fries

• French fries are typical belgian
• Some people eat it every week

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Restaurants

• Belgian people like good food
• Lot of good restaurants

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Sport celebrities

• Tennis
• Justin Henin
• 5 grandslams
• olympic games
• Kim Clijsters
• 1 grandslam
• Number 1 of the world

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• Biking
• Tom Boonen
• World champion
• Won the most famous races
• Very famous in belgium

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Eddy Merckx

• 1961-1977 he biked
• He won single-day classics, six days trials and
  long tours
• 5 tours de France
• 5 tours of Italy
• 4 Worldchampion

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Belgian music

• dEUS
• Millionaire
• Hooverphonic
• Ks Choice
• Praga khan
• Lord of Acids
• Soulwax
• 2Many DJs

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Strips

• Kuifje (Tintin) by Hergé

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