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I lived in Belgium seven years, it is a very decent place to live.
A pretty modern, diverse, tolerant society with a pretty good health care, an excellent education system and a pretty modern infrastructure.
Known by people........
You know so little.............
Google the phrase, Belgium Cockpit of Europe.
No-one cares if you think Google is lying because it's a US lapdog...
It is intereseting how some Europeans can make very confidently incorrect assumptions about the US and refuse to be contradicted, but if an American has an honest question about a European country, even if based on a gross misunderstanding of history, instead of having it explained to him, he is simply shamed for not having been educated on the matter.
No. Same tribe, different languages because one segment was a buffer to the generally racially differing French (the latter which are nonetheless named after the Belgian tribe in question). To figure out your answer, figure out the general historical genetic differences between the Flemish and the French.
The reason is, for the last name
In the 19th century, even in the 20th century, during the Industrial Revolution, most opportunities were in the french speaking region of Wallonia. Almost all industry was there, so lots of Flemish people moved over there. They kept their last name.
The first name: The dominant culture untill the sixties was the french. The elite spoke french, they had far better economy, compared with Flanders. First names (untill WWII) given were mostly french names. But that changed.
From my understanding, Vlaams or Flemish Belgium was born out of the deicision to stay loyal to Spain, versus the Netherlands who wanted independence.
In fact, the capricious border between The Netherlands and Belgium (Flanders) came out of loyalty to the house of Nassau (protestantism,king of Holland) or, south, loyalty to the duke of Brabant.(catholic)
In fact, the capricious border between The Netherlands and Belgium (Flanders) came out of loyalty to the house of Nassau (protestantism,king of Holland) or, south, loyalty to the duke of Brabant.(catholic)
True and Belgium was mostly Catholic, and the Netherlands mostly Protestant then. It similar to Ireland where Eire has been mostly Catholic and Ulster mostly Protestant.
Belgium ports, Bruges and Antwerp, were the major ports in western europe in the old days. Brussels gained prominence and wealth because of it and while now the northern european countries have become the major ports Belgium was able to sustain its financial wealth.
Been to Bruges because of the movie "In Bruges," stopped over in Ghent for lunch, and spent a few days in Brussels. Awesome country. I want to go to Antwerp, looks like a cool city to visit. Brussels is just like any other large bustling city, didn't really got excited about it, but Bruges was incredible.
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