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Belgium Western European state, with Brussels as its capital. The Belgian state was established in 1830-31, but the ideal and political conditions for its rise date back to the second half of the 16th century. In 1579 religious conflicts and the struggle against Spanish rule led to the split between the Catholic Netherlands (later Belgium) and… Read More »

CULTURE: THEATER Common to the two ethnic groups of the country is, with the inevitable variations, a robust tradition of popular theater, whose origins date back to the Middle Ages and whose events, coinciding with religious festivals, flank processions of faithful in special costumes to the representation of texts often very ancient, like the Jeu de… Read More »