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But I thought lets give them a brief summary about Belgium and certain aspects of it.
Multicultural Past
We were a part or fought against almost all great european empires, with the exceptions of Alexander's Empire and the Byzantine Empire.
Roman Empire: first mention of 'Belgium'.
The Belgae are the bravest of all Gaul.The thing he meant was that we were the most savage and didn't want to talk, just fight.
-Julius Caesar-
The Carolingian Empire: a long period the capital of that empire was in Belgium, mostly different places, won't go into detail.
Then Austria, Spain, France and the Dutch fought for us a few times, we defeated the main army of France twice.
Austria and Spain found us annoying, always rebelling and the Dutch tried to take us two more times after our independence, which didn't succeed. Hurraaah!!
Needless to say we got bored of all the being conquered and liberating ourselves, so we became Belgium.
Did you know Leopold I, our first king, was actually a german with a english nationality, whom they first offered to be king of Greece, but he rejected it. And his wife Louise Marie was the daughter of the king of France.
Fun fact, Belgium was long time referred to as the battlefield of Western Europe, because a lot of important/big battles took place there. Most recent ones, battle of Waterloo where Napoleon was defeated and of course World War 1.
Where belgians flooded a part of Belgium to stop Germany from marching all the way to Paris. (And I don't think we ever got a thank-you note for that France. But you're welcome, strong nations have always defended the weaker ones.
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Edit: seems like we did, my bad. We have a statue of our king in France for that.
After a short research in the bloodline of our kingdom, our new king, Filip, is part german, part french, part swedish, part italian and part danish. Not a single part belgian, how multicultural.
Next part will be about our world famous food and drinks.
Your not so serious redactor, Brainz.
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