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Benelux

Benelux, the union of the European countries Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg

geographical area, organisation, customs union, non-business organization, computer game region

Population: 27,500,000
Births: ▶
Audrey Hepburn; Vincent van Gogh; Jean-Claude Van Damme; René Magritte; Charlemagne; …
Rembrandt; Natalee Holloway; Famke Janssen; Eddie Van Halen; M. C. Escher; William III of England; Piet Mondrian; Mata Hari; Tony Parker; Ruud van Nistelrooy; Doutzen Kroes; Charles V; Johnny Galecki; Tiësto; Bas Rutten; Django Reinhardt; Johannes Vermeer; Beatrix; Robin van Persie; Baruch Spinoza; Klaas Jan Huntelaar; Edwin van der Sar; Anneliese van der Pol; Rutger Hauer; Armin van Buuren; Guus Hiddink; Rafael van der Vaart; Dennis Bergkamp; Arjen Robben; Justine Henin-Hardenne; Sharon den Adel; Marouane Fellaini; Badr Hari; Geert Wilders; Frank Rijkaard; Johan Cruijff; Brian Molko; Charles Martel; Dirk Kuyt; Wesley Sneijder; Jacques Brel; Semmy Schilt; Ryan Babel; Ruud Gullit; Claude Lévi-Strauss; Patrick Kluivert; Kim Clijsters; Marco van Basten; Geert Hofstede; Theo van Gogh; Marc Rich; Willem de Kooning; Alex Van Halen; Paul Verhoeven; Thomas Vermaelen; Rem Koolhaas; Karen Mulder; king albert 2; Sabra Johnson; Leopold II of Belgium; Marc Overmars; Royston Drenthe; Esmée Denters; Father Damien; Juliana of the Netherlands; Carice van Houten; Roméo Dallaire; Ernesto Hoost; Ferry Corsten; Jaap Stam; Daniel Bernoulli; Nigel de Jong; Diane von Fürstenberg; Abel Tasman; Wilhelmina of the Netherlands; Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink; Pier Gerlofs Donia; Peter Stuyvesant; Peter Aerts; Christiaan Huygens; Roy Makaay; Mark van Bommel; Henri; Hergé; Terri Summers; Gilbert Yvel; Jordi Cruyff; Vesalius; Giovanni van Bronckhorst; Jacques Rogge; Martin Jol; Ronald Koeman; Georges Lemaître; Edward Steichen; Colonel Tom Parker; Desiderius Erasmus; Carel Struycken; Anton Corbijn; Ibrahim Afellay; Pieter van den Hoogenband; Sophia of Hanover; John of Gaunt; Frans Hals; Pim Fortuyn; Andy van der Meyde; Louis van Gaal; Wilhelmina Cooper; Julio Cortázar; Hugo Grotius; Angerfist; Quincy Owusu-Abeyie; Khalid Boulahrouz; Charlotte of Belgium; Gerrit Rietveld; Nacer Barazite; Chris Richardson; Steven Defour; Robert Schuman; Antoni Hardonk; Marc Dutroux; Mark Vanderloo; Anneke van Giersbergen; Orlando Engelaar; Steed Malbranque; César Franck; Boudewijn Zenden; James Scott; Nina Foch; Leopold III of Belgium; Jan Peter Balkenende; Jeroen Krabbé; Adolphe Sax; Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands; Deidre Holland; Hendrik Lorentz; Hubert van Es; Andy Souwer; John Heitinga; Anton van Leeuwenhoek; Axel Witsel; Frank de Boer; Edsger Dijkstra; Victor Horta; Albert I of Belgium; Bert Blyleven; Cécile de France; Pepin the Short; Jacques Piccard; Mounir El Hamdaoui; Jaap de Hoop Scheffer; Martin Margiela; William II of the Netherlands; Princess Alexandra of Luxembourg; Pierre van Hooijdonk; Philippe, Duke of Brabant; Evander Sno; Candy Dulfer; Perkin Warbeck; Robert Wolders; Wilfred Bouma; Theo Jansen; Chedric Seedorf; Yves Leterme; Raymond van Barneveld; Dick Advocaat; Daniel Van Buyten; Richard Krajicek; Ritchie De Laet; Ismaïl Aissati; Tom Boonen; Moussa Dembélé; Saskia Sassen; Prince Wenzeslaus of Liechtenstein; William III of the Netherlands; Guillaume Dufay; Bradley Wiggins; Lucia Rijker; Ramon Dekkers; Bobbi Eden; Georges Simenon; Theo van Gogh; Hedwiges Maduro; Sylvie Meis; Ronald de Boer; Guido van Rossum; Luce Irigaray; Gerardus Mercator; Olive Thomas; Baudouin of Belgium; Frederique van der Wal; William I of the Netherlands; Mohammed Bouyeri; Marinus van der Lubbe; Marvin Emnes; Guillaume
Location: Western Europe
Location of: ▶
the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Passchendaele, Groningen, …
Haarlem, Oranjestad, Leeuwarden
Wikipedia Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benelux
Founded: 1970
Deaths: ▶
René Magritte; Rembrandt; M. C. Escher; Hieronymus Bosch; Johannes Vermeer; …
Baruch Spinoza; Slobodan Milošević; Peter Paul Rubens; Giacomo Puccini; William II; Maharishi Mahesh Yogi; Jan van Eyck; Chet Baker; Miep Gies; Jacques-Louis David; Maria Montessori; Theo van Gogh; D'Artagnan; Leopold II of Belgium; Anna Pavlova; Juliana of the Netherlands; William Tyndale; Gilles Villeneuve; Wilhelmina of the Netherlands; Pier Gerlofs Donia; Christiaan Huygens; Hergé; Edith Cavell; Georges Lemaître; Leopold I of Belgium; Gerald Bull; Frans Hals; Pim Fortuyn; Alex Harvey; Charlotte of Belgium; Gerrit Rietveld; Henry IV; Leopold III of Belgium; Yasmine; Hendrik Lorentz; Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain; Anton van Leeuwenhoek; Edsger Dijkstra; Victor Horta; Saint Boniface; Guy Gibson; William II of the Netherlands; Thomas à Kempis; Roland Garros; Gabriel Fahrenheit; Roger Williamson; William III of the Netherlands; Theo van Gogh; Ilya Prigogine; Saint Dymphna; David Oistrakh; Herman Brood; Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot; Jan Baptist van Helmont; Han van Meegeren; Mary of Burgundy; Rinus Michels; Hans Lippershey; William Cavendish; Norbert Elias; Ben Webster; Werner Voss; Alex Penkala; Dicks; Balthasar Gérard; Jan Steen; Pierre Bayle; Abraham Ortelius; Childeric I; Paul Ehrenfest; Pieter Brueghel the Younger; Robert Campin; Eugène Ysaÿe; Philip the Good; Jan Brueghel the Elder; William II; Bep Voskuijl; Johannes Diderik van der Waals; François Sterchele; Johannes Kleiman; Willem Einthoven; Jesse Pintado; Abraham Kuyper; Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark; Anne; Fravia; Johan de Witt; George Llewelyn-Davies; Johan van Oldenbarnevelt; Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont; Heike Kamerlingh Onnes; Edgardo Mortara; Margaret of York; Hubertus; Jan Gies; Mic Christopher; Max Euwe; Piers Courage; Paul-Henri Spaak; Judith Leyster; Napoléon Victor Jérôme Frédéric Bonaparte; Louise-Marie of France; Alexandre Kojève; Martinus Beijerinck; William Hope Hodgson; Georges Guynemer; Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck; Fernand Khnopff; David Teniers the Younger; Hugo Claus; Anna Pavlovna of Russia; Jean-Pierre Blanchard; Jacob Jordaens; Frederick Henry; Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium; Gerard David; Milan Babi?; Paul Delvaux; Antoine Wiertz; Franz von Werra; Maria Swanenburg; Philip the Bold; Pieter Zeeman; Noel Godfrey Chavasse; Pietro Locatelli; Ernest Mandel; Petrus Christus; Willebrord Snellius; Pieter Claesz; Elisabeth of Bavaria; Frank Martin; Edward Schillebeeckx; Nicolaes Tulp; Anton Mussert; Rachel Ruysch; Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders; Aldo van Eyck; Ludolph van Ceulen; Eustace Chapuys; Arthur Grumiaux; Joachim Patinir; Jan Lievens; Coenraad Johannes van Houten; Thomas Picton; Gilles Binchois; Georg Donatus; Frits Philips; John Smyth; Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine; Florentine Rost van Tonningen; Freddy Heineken; Jean Delville; Morris; Guillaume IV; Herman Boerhaave; Wilhelm Voigt; Frits Zernike; Gerard Philips; Prince Alexander of Belgium; Joost van den Vondel; Sophie of Württemberg; Gerard Reve; John Bull; Hans Monderman; Hannie Schaft; Magool; Marten Jacobszoon Heemskerk van Veen; Aelbert Cuyp; Jules Bordet; Quentin Matsys; Ernest Solvay; Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper; Jan van Goyen; Gerard de Lairesse; Cornelius Jansen; Hendrickje Stoffels; Johan Rudolf Thorbecke; Jan Oort; Eleanor of Woodstock; Emery Molyneux; Anton Pieck; Anton Mauve; Lamoral; Albert Claude; Floris V; Albert VII; Isabella of Burgundy; Arleen Augér; Joop den Uyl; Adolf Eugen Fick; Adriaen van Ostade; Willem Drees; Karel Van Miert; Thérésa Tallien; Walter Oesau
The Area Served By: Glénat, Free Record Shop, HUB Uitgevers
Class: customs union, computer game region, non-business organization, organisation, geographical area
Websites: http://www.boip.int/en/homepage.php, http://www.courbeneluxhof.info, http://www.benelux-parl.org, http://www.benelux.be/en/home_intro.asp
Language: ▶
French, German, Dutch, written German, written Dutch, …
written French
Freebase ID: "/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000000aafd"
Related Websites: http://www.benelux.be/
DBPedia URI: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Benelux
Founded here: Computer City
Freebase Primary MID: "/m/01bry"

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