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Following the campaigns of 1794 in the
French Revolutionary Wars, the Low Countries—
including territories that were never nominally
under Habsburg rule, such as the Prince-
Bishopric of Liège—were annexed by the French
First Republic, ending Austrian rule in the region.
The reunification of the Low Countries as
the United Kingdom of the Netherlands occurred
at the dissolution of the First French Empire in
1815, after the defeat of Napoleon.
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is
a country in Western Europe bordered by France,
the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg. A
small and densely populated country, it covers an
area of 30,528 square kilometers (11,787 sq mi)
and has a population of more than 11 million.
Straddling the cultural boundary
between Germanic and Latin Europe, Belgium is
home to two main linguistic groups: the Dutch
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