Belgium

Belgium was a nation in western Europe. It lay immediately to the north of France.

History

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

In 1913, the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown encountered Toby the Sapient Pig and Marcel Proust in a hotel in Ostende. (BFA: 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. (DWA: Warfreekz!, The Sunday Times: Deep and Dreamless Sleep)

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

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

In 2007 the sale of Dogon eyes were somewhat popular with collectors of alien artefacts, especially in Belgium for some unknown reason. (TW: Random Shoes)

Other notable references

Comparisons in size

• 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. (DW: Time Crash)

Cultural references

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

Deaths in Belgium

• The Doctor visited Giacomo Puccini shortly before he died in Brussels on 29 November 1924. (DW: Doctor Who)

Literary references

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