BELGIUM

BELGIUM / BELGIË - BELGIQUE.

150th Anniversary of Division of Limburg.
Map of Limburg and its division between the Netherlands and Belgium in 1839.
Stamp issued on 30.09.1989.
Face value: 13 Belgian francs.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 8,100,000 copies.
Size: 28 x 39 mm.

Catalogues
- AFA No. 2397.
- Michel No. 2390.
- Scott No. 1327.
- StampWorld No. 2394.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 2998.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 2338.

After Belgium’s separation from the Netherlands in 1830, the two Limburg provinces (Lower Meuse), which had been unified under the French administration (1810-1815), were almost entirely integrated into the new Kingdom of Belgium. The Treaty of London, signed on April 19, 1839, by Great Britain, Austria, the German Confederation (led by Prussia), Russia and the Netherlands, established the division of Limburg between Belgium and the Netherlands. At the same time. Luxembourg lost two thirds of its territory, which became Belgian sovereignty. Thus the definitive borders of the independent Kingdom of Belgium, which was recognized internationally, were defined.