Ghent

Ghent is a city in the region of Flanders in northern Belgium. In 1539 it was the site of the Revolt of Ghent against the Holy Roman Emperor. The city was a center of the Belgian textile industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. On 24 December 1814, it was the site of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent that formally ended the War of 1812 between the United States and Britain.