Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei:
I te mutunga o tana mana motuhake i te tau 1830, i herea a Belgium ki te noho tuuturu i roto i te tau 1839 hei waahanga o te taurangi mo tona mana motuhake. I mua i te pakanga, he mana rangatira a Belgium, a i mohiotia ko ia tetahi o nga whenua tino ahumahi i te ao. I te 4 o Akuhata 1914, i whakaekehia e te ope Tiamana a Belgium i etahi ra i muri i tana whakaatu i tetahi korero ki te kawanatanga o Belgian kia ahei te haere noa o nga hoia Tiamana puta noa i ona rohe. I tere haere te ope Tiamana ki Belgium, i whakapae, i hopu hoki i nga taone kaha o Liège, Namur me Antwerp me te akiaki i te ope Belgian 200,000-te kaha, i tautokohia e o raatau hoa French me Ingarangi, ki te hauauru tawhiti. He tokomaha hoki o ngā rerenga i rere ki ngā whenua tata. I te Oketopa 1914, i mutu te whakaterenga a Tiamana i te taha o te rohe French e te ope Belgian i te Yser me te ope French-British i te Marne. I te mutunga, ka noho te raina o mua me te nuinga o Belgium i raro i te mana Tiamana. I te kore o tetahi whakaeke whakatau, ko te nuinga o Belgium i noho tonu i raro i te mana Tiamana tae noa ki te mutunga o te pakanga.