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Flemish minister-president Geert Bourgeois has announced funding in the amount of €1.5 million for events commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
Regular readers of The Low Countries will notice a big change today: Not just a new website, but three new websites.
The streets of Antwerp, Ghent and Bruges will give up their history, thanks to an innovative new research project that will digitally match maps, archives and other sources of historical inf
It's 100 years since Victor Horta moved out and sold both his house and his studio, 50 years since the opening of the museum and 30 years since the restoration was started.
In 1915, a group of armoured cars were found unsuitable for the trench warfare happening in Flanders. That’s how an entire army corps got sent to the Russian front.
For anyone over a certain age, mention of the late 1960s brings certain emblematic images straight to mind: the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt.
Munitions in the undersea dumping site off the coast of Knokke-Heist are leaking TNT, according to the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS).
For the second time round, Black History Month is coming to Belgium.
Poland’s foreign affairs minister Jacek Czaputowicz and head of the veterans office Jozef Kasprzyk joined Flemish minister-president Geert Bourgeois yesterday for the opening of the Armoured Wings
