Once mighty states like Italy, Germany and the Benelux nations are doomed to be replaced by such emerging centers of info-power as Orange County, Calif., and Champaign-Urbana, Ill.

Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg together make up the Low Countries; they are also known as the Benelux nations.

When German troops invaded the Benelux nations and France in May 1940, German weapons technology proved to be immeasurably superior to that of the Allies.

At the company's peak it provided high speed Internet service for 4.1 million subscribers in the U.S., Canada, Japan, Australia, and the Benelux nations, operating four joint ventures, three of which were international.

In Europe there are also groups covering the Benelux nations and Scandinavia.

No, it's not on any map of the Benelux nations; you have to find it in your heart.

With 166 million people, U.P. is about the size of France, Germany, and the Benelux nations combined.

In Scandinavia, the Benelux nations and Spain there are still untitled as well as titled families recognised by law as noble.

The available associate countries are the Benelux nations (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, treated as one) and Austria (which includes Hungary), Greece Portugal.

Those who gathered there were "the Six," the core countries of the European project: France, West Germany, Italy and the Benelux nations - Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.