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The only thing that kept Belgum or its antecedents, Spanish then Austrian Netherlands, was the Catholic faith. Belgium was incorporated into the Netherlands at the Congress of Vienna but the Dutch were a bit too intolerant of Catholicism so Belgium broke away. With Europe post-Christian there is nothing to serve as a glue to keep Belgium together.


12 posted on 06/13/2010 4:25:22 PM PDT by C19fan
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And Luxembourg broke away from Belgium. The Netherlands of 1830 was the first Yugoslavia.


33 posted on 06/13/2010 6:03:39 PM PDT by Eternal_Bear (`)
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