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A telephone number in Belgium is a sequence of nine or ten digits dialed on a telephone to make a call on the Belgian telephone network. Belgium is under a full number dialing plan , meaning that the full national number must be dialed for all calls, while it retains the trunk code, '0', for all national dialling.
Mobile telephone ownership has increased by nearly one thousand percent in the period 1997–2007, from 974,494 to 10.23 million. There are three licensed mobile network operators (MNO) in Belgium, Proximus ( Belgacom ), Orange Belgium ( Orange S.A. ) and Telenet / Base and numerous mobile virtual network operators (MVNO).
The Compagnie Belge du Téléphone Bell (the Bell Telephone Company of Belgium) was formed in 1882, as the Belgian subsidiary of the International Bell Telephone Company of New York. [5] By the end of 1886, the Belgian division had a total 6,900 kilometers of telephone lines, and 3,532 subscribers in seven cities, including Brussels , Antwerp ...
Arrondissements of Belgium are subdivisions below the provinces of Belgium.There are administrative, judicial and electoral arrondissements. These may or may not relate to identical geographical areas.
Sprimont (French pronunciation:; Walloon: Sprumont) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium.. The municipality consists of the following districts: Dolembreux, Gomzé-Andoumont, Louveigné, Rouvreux, and Sprimont.
The Clermont site was initially started by Hilgers and Cie Company in 1850, then Muller Company in 1872, before Poudreries Réunies de Belgique acquired the site in 1919 (known as PRB from 1969). The site was changed to PB-Clermont, part of the SNPE Group in 1990 [ 4 ] now part of the European Energetics Corporation ( Eurenco ).
The National Archives of Belgium [1] (French: Archives générales du Royaume, Dutch: Algemeen Rijksarchief, German: Generalstaatsarchiv; all lit. ' General Archives of the Kingdom ') is the main depository of the State Archives of Belgium (Archives de l'État; Rijksarchief) and is located on rue de Ruysbroeck / Ruysbroeckstraat, next to the Mont des Arts, in central Brussels.
The Biographie nationale de Belgique (French pronunciation: [bjɔɡʁafi nɑsjɔnal də bɛlʒik]; English: National Biography of Belgium) is a biographical dictionary of Belgium. It was published by the Royal Academy of Belgium in 44 volumes between 1866 and 1986. [ 1 ]