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Antwerp ( / ˈæntwɜːrp / ⓘ; Dutch: Antwerpen [ˈɑntʋɛrpə (n)] ⓘ; French: Anvers [ɑ̃vɛʁs] ⓘ) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of Antwerp Province, and the third largest city in Belgium by area at 204.51 km 2 (78.96 sq mi) after Tournai and Couvin.
A yellow flag with a black lion in the center. 900–1477 [ 2] Flag of the County of Hainaut. A yellow quartered banner with black and red lions. 1183–1794 [ 2] Flag of the Duchy of Brabant. A golden lion on a black field.
The original Antwerp Flag has been on display at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, with a plaque thanking him for donating it. [30] The flag returned to Antwerp in 2004 and since 2013, the year that Antwerp bore the title of European Sports Capital, [31] the flag could be admired in the entrance hall of Antwerp's city hall. In 2017 ...
Prussian blue was created in the early 18th century and is the first modern synthetic pigment. It is prepared as a very fine colloidal dispersion, because the compound is not soluble in water. It contains variable amounts [ 2] of other ions and its appearance depends sensitively on the size of the colloidal particles.
Above the mantle rise banners with the arms of the nine provinces that constituted Belgium in 1837. They are (from dexter to sinister) Antwerp, West Flanders, East Flanders, Liège, Brabant, Hainaut, Limburg, Luxembourg and Namur. The coat of arms of Belgium bears a lion or, known as Leo Belgicus (Latin for the Belgian lion ), as its charge.
This tradition traces back at least to the insurrection against the absolutism of Filip VI. The association of red, yellow, blue and white from the main colours of Antwerp (red-white), Mechelen (yellow-red) and Turnhout (white-blue) can easily be compared to the historical models. East Flanders: 1999
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Antwerp City Hall. / 51.2213; 4.3992. The City Hall ( Dutch: Stadhuis ⓘ) of Antwerp, Belgium, stands on the western side of that city's Grote Markt (main square). Erected between 1561 and 1565, after designs made by Cornelis Floris de Vriendt and several other architects and artists, this Renaissance building incorporates both Flemish and ...