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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 964 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BELGIUM .—The records are numerous and valuable. See also:

State Records comprise all those of the central governments, 1 the See also:modern See also:kingdom, of the governments preceding it and of the various states such as See also:Brabant, See also:Flanders, Gueldres and Hainault out of which Belgium was formed. They are preserved partly at See also:Brussels as See also:General Records of the Kingdom and partly in provincial repositories. Thus at See also:Ghent are archives of the See also:county of Flanders, at See also:Liege of the principality of that name and of the duchy of See also:Limburg, at See also:Mons of the county of Hainault, at See also:Bruges of the See also:liberty of Bruges and other jurisdictions of eastern Flanders; at See also:Namur, See also:Arlon, Bassett and See also:Tournai are repositories of less importance: at the same See also:time the repository at Brussels contains many records of the same See also:kind as those in the provincial offices and is the See also:chief one of the See also:country; the collection there has been formed from various collections in Belgium combined with records restored by the See also:Austrian See also:government and other acquisitions. Archives Provinciales, the records of provincial administrations since 1794, are placed in the chief towns of each See also:province: each collection falls into three periods, See also:French (1794–1814), Dutch (1814–183o) and Belgian. Municipal Archives.—The most important are those of See also:Antwerp, Bruges, Ghent, R'Ialines, Mons, Tournai and See also:Ypres. The best See also:book of general See also:bibliographical reference for Belgian records is Pirenne's Bibliographie de l'histoire de Belgique.

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