Provinces of Belgium of Brabant, which held the city of Brussels. In 1995, Brabant was split into three areas: Flemish Brabant, which became a part of the region of Flanders; Walloon Brabant, which became part of the region of Wallonia; and the Brussels-Capital Region, which became a third region. These divisions reflected political tensions between the French-speaking Walloons and the Dutch-speaking Flemish; the Brussels-Capital Region is officially bilingual. The division into provinces is fixed by Article 5 of the Belgian Constitution. The provinces are subdivided into 43 administrative arrondissements, and further into 589 municipalities. The medieval Low Countries, including present-day Belgium, the Netherlands
Judiciary of Belgium and Court of First Instance where it is unclear which court is competent for the respective case. Legal help can be obtained from a House of Justice ("Justitiehuis / Maison de justice"), of which there is one in each judicial arrondissement and 2 in the arrondissement of Brussels (a Dutch- and French-speaking one). The Constitutional Court ("Grondwettelijk Hof / Cour constitutionelle") is a special court mainly for conflicts between the federal level and regional level and was created as part of the federalisation of the country. The government of Belgium also has a lot of administrative courts, of which the