
Herman F.A. Van der Wee
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LOCATION: Sint Pauwels B-9170, Belgium
Emeritus Professor of Social and Economic History, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. Author of The Growth of the Antwerpen Market and the European Economy.
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Belgium, country of northwestern Europe. It is one of the smallest and most densely populated European countries, and it has been, since its independence in 1830, a representative democracy headed by a hereditary constitutional monarch. Initially, Belgium had a unitary form of government. In theā¦
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