Belgium

Belgium is a nation in western Europe. It lies immediately to the north of France.

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 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. (DWAM: Warfreekz! and 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 2001, the Eighth Doctor, Anji Kapoor and Fitz Kreiner became involved with preventing the Kulan invasion of Earth in Brussels. (EDA: Escape Velocity)

Minor references

• The Doctor visited Giacomo Puccini shortly before he died in Brussels on 29 November 1924. (DW: Doctor Who)
• 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)
• The Doctor's psychic paper convinced an Alexandra Palace security guard that he (the Doctor) was the king of Belgium. (DW: The Idiot's Lantern)
• Agatha Christie made her fictional detective Hercule Poirot a Belgian. (DW: The Unicorn and the Wasp)
• Circa 2007, the sale of Dogon eyes had some popularity by collectors of alien artefacts, especially in Belgium for some unknown reason. (TW: Random Shoes)