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Port cities and towns in Belgium

  • AntwerpFlowing through Antwerp is the river Scheldt. This waterway links the city to the North Sea via the Westerschelde estuary.
  • GhentThe confluence of the Scheldt and Leie rivers marked the birthplace of a settlement that would eventually become Ghent. Archaeological evidence confirms…
  • BrugesThe earliest written record of the city's name appears in documents from between 840 and 875 AD. Scribes wrote the location as Bruocs or Bruggas during that…
  • OstendIn the early Middle Ages, Ostend existed as a small village built on the east-end of an island called Testerep. This land sat between the North Sea and a…