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Belgium - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Belgium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | Austria formally ceded the territories to France by the Treaty of Campo-Formio (1797), dictated by Napoleon. |
 | | After Napoleon's abdication in 1814, the provinces again passed to Austria, and were administered by an Austrian governor general. |
 | | But in 1815 at the Congress of Vienna they were united with Holland, and William Frederick of Orange-Nassau (see Orange, House of) became king of the Netherlands (that is, the modern Netherlands and the modern Belgium) as William I in September 1815. |
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