Belgium

Belgium was a nation in western Europe.

According to the Tenth Doctor, Belgium had the finest chocolatiers in all the galaxy. (COMIC: Warfreekz!) According to Agatha Christie, they made "such lovely buns". (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp)

Belgium was notable for being a key location on the Western Front during the First World War. It's towns and cities, including Mons, (COMIC: The Weeping Angels of Mons) Ypres (TV: Twice Upon a Time) and Antwerp saw much of the action during the conflict. (AUDIO: Brotherhood of the Daleks)

The country faced further conflict in the Second World War, when the region of Ardennes became the location of the Battle of the Bulge. (PROSE: Autumn Mist)

History

The Doctor in the Ardennes. (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp)

The Tenth Doctor rescued the kidnapped Charlemagne from Momus, an insane computer, in 800. (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp, PROSE: The Lonely Computer)

In 1913, the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown encountered Toby the Sapient Pig and Marcel Proust in a hotel in Ostend. (AUDIO: Year of the Pig)

In 1914, the Tenth Doctor visited the battlefields of the First World War in Belgium twice, once with Rose Tyler and once with Daniel Francis Thompson. (COMIC: Warfreekz!, PROSE: Deep and Dreamless Sleep)

In October 1914, Germany bombarded Antwerp. Using her yacht, a British woman named Jessica Borthwick evacuated numerous Belgians across the English Channel while under German fire. (AUDIO: Brotherhood of the Daleks)

In 1944, the Eighth Doctor, Samantha Jones and Fitz Kreiner become involved in the Battle of the Bulge. (PROSE: Autumn Mist)

In February 2001, Anji Kapoor and her boyfriend Dave Young encountered Kulan agents whilst in Brussels. Fitz Kreiner met them, suspecting the Eighth Doctor's involvement. Also in February 2001, Pierre-Yves Dudoin attempted to launch his Star Dart, but it was destroyed. (PROSE: Escape Velocity)

The sale of Dogon eyes were somewhat popular with collectors of alien artefacts, especially in Belgium. (TV: Random Shoes)

Around the 2010s, Missy ordered the Cybermen to blow up Boat One as well as Belgium. She said they "might as well" kill some Belgians because they weren't even French. (TV: Death in Heaven)

References

The collision of the TARDISes of the tenth and fifth incarnations threatened to blow a hole in the space-time continuum the exact size of Belgium, a somewhat anticlimactic apocalypse. (TV: Time Crash)

The Tenth Doctor's psychic paper convinced an Alexandra Palace security guard that the Doctor was the king of Belgium. (TV: The Idiot's Lantern)

Agatha Christie made her fictional detective Hercule Poirot a Belgian. (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp)