Historical geography of Belgium

historical coastal landscape in north western Europe

thumb|300px|Eupen-Malmedy border changes between 1920 and 1945

thumb|right|Blooming fruit trees at Kerniel, a typical Hesbayean village in the municipality of Borgloon. thumb|300px|right|The natural regions of Belgium. The Hesbaye (French, ), or Haspengouw (Dutch and Limburgish, ), is a traditional cultural and geophysical region in eastern Belgium. It is a loamy plateau region which forms a watershed between the Meuse and Scheldt drainage basins. It has been one of the main agricultural regions in what is now Belgium since before Roman times, and specifically named in records since the Middle Ages, when it was an important Frankish pagus or gau, called H

animalisation of the Low Countries

ecclestiastical state of the Holy Roman Empire

partition out of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

autonomous Lordship in the Low Countries

merger and rearrangement of Belgian municipalities from 1975 to 1983

thumb|200px|right|location of the Tournaisis The Tournaisis (or Tournai and the Tournaisis) was a small territory in the Low Countries, Independent during the Middle Ages, it consisted of the city of Tournai () and the surrounding area, which now forms part of Hainaut Province, in Belgium.