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Originally posted by Stroggy@Dec 4 2004, 10:33 AM
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I myself won't write much about my own country since Belgium's history is rather dull.
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Actually, that buffer region's only one of the latest parts of its history. Before that, it wasn't officially a country, but was called Belgica by the Romans, the South-Netherlands throughout other parts of the history. Been occupied by the French tons of times, been other people's battlegrounds, were once the centrum of trade, with the haven of Antwerp until it shifted with the discovery of America, been occupied by the Spanish, which made all intellectuals and artists flee to Holland and Germany... its history's far from dull, but if you concider its history to start the moment it's been given borders and a governement, you're neglecting the centuries and centuries from before that. You'd act as if the landmass was risen up only 174 years ago, and before that, it was just sea (and even then, with its position, that sea'd definitely have some history then)