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  1. History of Belgium

    For most of its history, what is now Belgium was either a part of a larger territory, such as the Carolingian Empire, or divided into a number of smaller states, prominent among them being the Duchy of Lower Lorraine, the Duchy of Brabant, the County of Flanders, the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, the County of Namur, the County of Hainaut and the County of Luxembourg. Due to its strategic location as a country of contact between different cultures, Belgium has been called the "crossroads of Europe"; for the many armies fighting on its soil, it has also been called the "battlefield of Europe" or the "cockpit of Europe". Belgium's modern shape can be traced back at least as far as the southern core of the medieval Burgundian Netherlands. The Eighty Years' War later led to the split between a northern Dutch Republic and the Southern Netherlands from which Belgium and Luxembourg developed. Wikipedia

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  2. britannica.com

    Aug 17, 2023History of Belgium, a history of Belgium after 1579. For information concerning the period prior to that date, see history of the Low Countries. After the Burgundian regime in the Low Countries (1363-1477), the southern provinces (whose area roughly encompassed that of present-day Belgium and
  3. britannica.com

    3 days agoBelgium and the political entities that preceded it have been rich with historical and cultural associations, from the Gothic grandeur of its medieval university and commercial cities and its small, castle-dominated towns on steep-bluffed winding rivers, through its broad traditions in painting and music that marked one of the high points of the northern Renaissance in the 16th century, to its ...
  4. britannica.com

    5 days agoBelgium - Medieval, Low Countries, Charlemagne: This section surveys the history of the Belgian territories after 1579. For information concerning the period prior to that date, see Low Countries, history of. After the Burgundian regime in the Low Countries (1363-1477), the southern provinces (whose area roughly encompassed that of present-day Belgium and Luxembourg) as well as the northern ...
  5. en.wikipedia.org

    Belgium, [a] officially the Kingdom of Belgium, [b] is a country in Northwestern Europe.The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the south, and the North Sea to the west. It covers an area of 30,689 km 2 (11,849 sq mi) [4] and has a population of more than 11.7 million. [7] With 383/km 2 (990/sq mi), Belgium's ...
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