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The History of Belgium: A Small Country with a Giant Colonial Legacy — Fexingo History

Belgium: a patchwork of Dutch-speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia, a cobbled-together buffer state that punched far above its weight. In its short 1830s independence, it carved out a…

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