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The government of the Brussels-Capital Region (French: Gouvernement de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Dutch: Brusselse Hoofdstedelijke Regering) is the political administration of the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. [1] [2] An election is held every five years.
In the early 1580s, during a period of Calvinist rule in Brussels, all Catholic ceremonies were suppressed. From 1579 to 1585 the relics had been hidden in a house in the Korte Ridderstraat. After the end of Calvinist rule in 1585, a procession of citizens and officeholders had retrieved the hosts and carried them back to the church.
The Maison du Peuple (French, pronounced [mɛzɔ̃ dy pœpl]) or Volkshuis (Dutch, pronounced [ˈvɔlksˌɦœys]), both literally the "House of the People", was a public building located on the Place Emile Vandervelde / Emile Vanderveldeplein, in the Sablon/Zavel district of Brussels, Belgium.
Coats of arms of the Seven noble houses of Brussels, engraved by Jacques Harrewyn, 1697.. The seven families were first named in a document from 1306 in which John II, Duke of Brabant restores and asserts the existing privileges of the seven families after the citizens of Brussels had violently demanded participation in the city's government.
The exact date when the first Castle of Coudenberg was built remains a subject of debate. It is generally fixed to the middle of the 11th century, when the counts of Leuven and Brussels left the bottom of the valley of the river Senne and built their castle on the heights of the Coudenberg, where there was a smaller risk of floods, and from where they could dominate Brussels. [4]
According to Bordiot, between 1918 and 1922, Vladimir Lenin paid the investment bank of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. approximately 600 million gold rubles, equivalent to approximately $450 million, while after the Bolshevik Revolution the Rockefellers' company Standard Oil of New Jersey bought 50% of the oilfields in the Caucasus, although they were officially state property.
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In the politics of Belgium, Unionism or Union of Opposites (union des oppositions) is a Belgian political movement that existed from the 1820s to 1846.(In the present day, the term 'unionists' is sometimes used in a Belgian context to describe those who oppose the partition of Belgium, such as members of the Belgische Unie – Union Belge and l’Unie parties.