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Municipalities in Belgium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (236 words) |
 | The municipalities are the smallest administrative subdivisions of Belgium. |
 | After municipalities were merged in 1977 (major merging) and 1983 (merging of the municipalities of Antwerp), the number came down to 589. |
 | Municipalities: of the Brussels-Capital Region • in the Flemish Region • in the Walloon Region |
| List, National System of Political Economy: The Online Library of Liberty (13837 words) |
 | List maintains that in the early years of the nineteenth century England had obtained the manufacturing and commercial supremacy of the world to such a degree that all the other nations were in danger of becoming mere providers of food and raw materials in return for her manufactures. |
 | List goes on to show that by this English method of dealing with gluts the whole manufacturing power, the system of credit, nay, the agriculture and generally the whole economical system of the nations who are placed in free competition with England, are shaken to their foundations. |
 | List was also a great enthusiast for the political union of kindred states, as exemplified in the case of Germany and Italy, but he thought that the political union must always precede the commercial union of the separate states (p. |