Belgium -- History; World War, 1914-1918 -- Belgium
Spanish rule, 4, 108 ff., 124, 125 ff., 146
Speyer, cathedral of, 31
Spinola, General, 121
States-General, 82; declaration of, 147; met in Brussels, 97, 107, 113
Stone, of Tournai, famous, 32
Struggle for the Investitures, 28, 55
Sunt, the, 44
Switzerland, 166
Sylva Carbonaria, 10, 11
Taxes: of Alva, 111; freedom to those who paid, 154; octrois abolished,
164
Teniers, painter, 122
Termonde, 175
Térouanne (later Saint-Omer) 38, 95
Territory, loss of, 156, 157
Terrorizing, 175
Teutonic, 10; “barbarism,” 33
Teutons, 9
Theology, 136
Thourout, 38
Thuringia, 30
Tin, 38
_Tirage au sort, le_, 169
Tirlemont, 60
Tolls, of the Scheldt, 164
Tongers, oldest bishop of Belgium in, 13; Romanized, 9
Tournai: annexed by Charles V. 95; artistic and religious capital
of Flanders, 32, 53; campaign of conquest from, Clodovech started,
11; cathedral of, 32, 53; conquered by Clodion, 11; diocese of,
105; intellectual center, 34; local school of sculptors at, 32, 53;
procession of, 27; stone of, famous, 32, 53; vainly besieged by
Anglo-Flemish, 71
Tournaisis, 95
Town hall, 54; of Brussels, 92, 138; of Louvain, 82, 92; of Antwerp, 110
Trade and industry, 36, 38, 39, 44, 73, 123
Treaties: Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, 126; of April 19, 1839, quintuple,
162-68; of Arras, 116; of Bade, 128; of the Barriers, 129 ff., 147; of
Campo Formio, 142; with Flanders and Liège, 66; of France and Holland
against Spain, 146; of the Hague (1790), 140; for independence of
Belgium, 158; of London, 157 f., 163; of Meerssen, 18; of Nimégue, 126;
of the Twenty-four Articles, 157; of Utrecht, 128; of Verdun, 17, 23,
24; of Verdun in 879, Second, 18; of 1870, 162
Treaty, draft, published by Bismarck, 161; placing neutral zones, 159
Tribunal of the XXII, 66
Truce, for 12 years, 121
Tulden, 123
Turks, Count of Flanders in crusade against, 25
Twenty-four Articles, Treaty of the, 157
United Kingdom of the Netherlands, national debt of, 156
University of Louvain, founded by John IV, 75, 84, 92, 111, 119, 122
f., 136; Philosophic College at, 152
Utrecht, 20; archbishopric of, 105; bishopric of, 95; treaty of, 128;
Union of, 117
Valenciennes, river wharves at, 37; revolt at, 69
Valois, 56, 70; King Philip of, 70
Van Artevelde, Jacques, 70
Van Craesbeke, councilor of Brabant, 122
Van de Weyer, 154 f.
Van der Goes, Hugo, 91
Van der Noot, 137, 141
Van der Weyden, 90 f.
Van Dyck, 122
Van Eyck, Hubert, 90 f.; Jan, 90 f.
Van Hoogendorp, Count Charles, 149
Van Maenen, minister, of William I, 153
Van Maerlandt, Jacob, 52, 88
Van Ruysbroeck, Jan, 89
Van Veldeke, Hendrik, 52
Van Wassenhove, Juste, of Ghent, 91
Venice, 45, 46
Verdun, Treaty of, 17, 23, 24; Second Treaty of, in 879, 18; cut
Belgium in two parts, 17
Vermandois, 30, 56
Vernuleus, Nicholas, 123
Verviers, town of, 85
“Verwaltung,” for Flanders, 179
Victoria, Queen of England, 158, 163
Vienna, Congress of, 145
Visitation, system of, 122
Visscher, Ch. de, 158
Vonck, 137, 141
Waes, 52
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