Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Latitude and longitude of Louvain-la-Neuve
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Louvain-la-Neuve (French pronunciation: [lu.vɛ̃.la.nœv], French for New Leuven) is a planned city in the municipality of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, situated 30 km southeast of Brussels, in the French-speaking part of the country.
Population: 29,521
Latitude: 50° 40' 5.84" N
Longitude: 4° 36' 51.95" E
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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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Université catholique de Louvain
The Université catholique de Louvain (UCL, French for Catholic University of Louvain, but usually not translated into English) is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. It is located in Louvain-la-Neuve, which was expressly built to house the…
Lion's Mound
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Louvain-la-Neuve
Louvain-la-Neuve (French pronunciation: [lu.vɛ̃.la.nœv], French for New Leuven) is a planned city in the municipality of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, situated 30 km southeast of Brussels, in the French-speaking part of the country.
IMEC
Imec, formerly the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre, is a micro- and nanoelectronics research center headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, with offices in Belgium, the Netherlands, Taiwan, USA, China, India and Japan. Its staff of about 2200 peop…
Battle of Fleurus (1794)
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Walloon Brabant
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Hougoumont
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Battle of Wavre
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Royal Museum for Central Africa
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Walibi Belgium
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House of Arenberg
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International School of Brussels
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Grand Béguinage, Leuven
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Leuven Town Hall
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Heverlee
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