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| | BRUSSELS FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | This municipality inside Brussels is correctly named The_City_of_Brussels (French: ''Bruxelles-Ville'' or ''Ville de Bruxelles'', Dutch: ''Stad Brussel''), which is one of 19 municipalities that make up the Brussels-Capital Region (''see also'': Municipalities_of_the_Brussels-Capital_Region). |
 | | In the 15th_century, by means of the wedding of heiress Margaret_III_of_Flanders with Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, a new Duke of Brabant emerged from the House of Valois (namely Antoine, their son), with another line of descent from the Habsburgs (Maximilian of Austria, later Maximilian_I,_Holy_Roman_Emperor, was Philip's father). |
 | | In 1695 Brussels was attacked by King Louis_XIV_of_France: the battle was responsible for the flattening of the city's heart, the Grand_Place, and the razing of what was left: more than 4000 houses, including the buildings of the Grand Place, were all destroyed, except for the famous city_hall, the Hôtel de Ville, which miraculously survived). |
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