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The presidency of the Benelux is held in turn by the three countries for a period of one year. Belgium holds the presidency for 2024. About 80 percent of the Benelux population speaks Dutch, about 20 percent speaks French and one percent Luxembourgish as their native language. A small minority under one percent are native German speakers.
Only one officer out of six would be from the South. [9] Most Belgian soldiers were therefore commanded by officers who were not originally from the Southern Netherlands. Moreover, the Dutch language had become the sole language of the army of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1823/24, which was an additional grievance on the part of the ...
The enlightened despot William I, who reigned from 1815 to 1840, had almost unlimited constitutional power, the constitution having been written by a number of notable people chosen by him. As despot, he had no difficulty in accepting some of the changes resulting from the social transformation of the previous 25 years, including equality of ...
Tapestry weavers of Oudenaarde form the Guild of St Barbara. [68] 1450: 28 February: Tournament held on the main square in Leuven in the presence of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy and Brabant. [69] 1451: 28 October: Guilds of Ghent take up arms against the Count of Flanders, Philip the Good. 1452: 31 May: Philip the Good declares war on the ...
The Belgium national football team has been among the best on the FIFA World Rankings ever since November 2015, when it reached the top spot for the first time. [236] Since the 1990s, the team has been the world's number one for the most years in history, only behind the records of Brazil and Spain. [237]
Since Peter Waldo's Franco-Provençal translation of the New Testament in the late 1170s, and Guyart des Moulins' Bible Historiale manuscripts of the Late Middle Ages, there have been innumerable vernacular translations of the scriptures on the European continent, greatly aided and catalysed by the development of the printing press, first invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the late 1430s.
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The decoration is based on a wide variety of models from the past, including the Cervera Bible. Another characteristic feature of the Kennicott Bible, which it also shares with the Cervera Bible, is the inclusion of narrative and figurative illustrations. In this way, the two illuminators broke with the anti-figurative tradition of Sephardic ...