Kingdom of Belgium: All Data

This page is about the data available for this polity, the chronology of the events of the polity is available here.

Is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the southwest, and the North Sea to the northwest. The country was established following the 1830 Belgian Revolution, when it seceded from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, which had incorporated the Southern Netherlands after the Congress of Vienna in 1815. In the past, the southern Netherlands had been consistently a separate territory than the modern-day Netherlands: it was a predominantly catholic region (the Netherlands were predominantly protestant) and were part of Spain and Austria until the revolutionary wars.