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Currently, the Belgian crown recognizes (in ascending order) the titles of jonkheer, knight, baron, viscount, count, marquis, duke and prince.The persons who legally are member of the nobility have the legal right to protect their family name and coat of arms.
A Belgian identity card (Dutch: Identiteitskaart, French: Carte d’identité, German: Personalausweis) is a national identity card issued to all citizens of Belgium aged 12 years old and above. Foreigners resident in Belgium are issued with a Belgian resident card (Dutch: Verblijfstitel , French: Titre de séjour , German: Aufenthaltstitel ...
Since Belgium has three national languages — Dutch, French and German — Belgian names are similar to those in the neighbouring countries: the Netherlands, France and Germany. Place names (regions, towns, villages, hamlets) with a particle meaning "from" (de in French, del in Walloon, or van in Dutch) are the most numerous. An uncapitalised ...
A pseudonym is a name adopted by a person for a particular purpose, which differs from their true name. A pseudonym may be used by social activists or politicians for political purposes or by others for religious purposes. It may be a soldier's nom de guerre or an author's nom de plume.
For the specific epithet, the names can be converted into either adjectival form (adding -nus (m.), -na (f.), -num (n.) according to the gender of the genus name) or the genitive of the Latinised name. [3] Adlercreutzia – H. Adlercreutz, a Finnish professor; Afifella – S. Afif, a British philosopher and painter
The Latin name was revived in 1790 by the short-lived United Belgian States which was created after a revolution against Austrian rule took place in 1789. Since no adjective equivalent to "Belgian" existed at the time, the French noun "Belgique" (or "Belgium") was adopted as both noun and adjective; a phenomenon borrowed from Latin which was ...
Individuals who dropped their last name and substituted their middle name as their last name are listed. Those with a one-word stage name are listed in a separate article. In many cases, performers have legally changed their name to their stage name. [1] Note: Many cultures have their own naming customs and systems, some rather intricate.