Hey so i’m Belgian so I might can help you out with some of your questions... The Atomium is our national landmark, inside there are museum/restaurant/sightseeing spots/... ( a monument like France has the Eiffel Tower, London- Big Bang, Germany -the Berlin Wall...) the flowers carpet is something volunteers make every year just for art. It’s made out of one kind of flower It only stays there for 4 days and It’s in Brussels.the monument one the hill Is a pyramid of stones cover with gras whit a lion on it, because a lion is Belgium’s animal on the escutcheon and it’s build in memory for the war of Waterloo. Sure some of these pictures are really beautiful , but you need to know that most of these pictures have been take in summer... most of the time it’s more grey weather and pretty cold. But summer is amazing! Some places here are truly magical and I like to think that I’m very lucky to be born in such a safe and well evolved country like this... there are other parts of the wold where life is way much harder then ours I think... Have a nice weekend! ( Bad English mode: -probably ON. )
It's a small country with lots of history. Being part of any big player in Western Europe for almost 2k years. And even if it's a very small country, it's people have had lots of influence on the world at large for thousands of years. The internet is claimed to be invented by a Brit... but there was a Belgian colleague that helped him with it to create the revised version that actually led to the world wide web. The big bang theory was formulated by a Belgian cosmologist/priest Mercator who's chart making methods are used to this day and are an essential method that makes GPS function Heck, look at Kpop stars and fans making the V-signs for photoshoots.... they learned that peace hand sign from Americans... who took it from the Brits...specifically Churchill was famous for making the V-sign during the war years.... which he got from a Belgian politician (and subsequently the Belgian resistance) during WW2 (V meaning Victory (in French) and freedom (Vrijheid in Dutch)).. so the one leg of the V was Victory, the other freedom, both are needed because victory leads to freedom and therefor peace... In other words, the 'cutesy' thing that Kpop stars do has it's origins in a Belgium psyop But, unlike the Brits or the French or even the Dutch, we don't toot our own horn that much if for no other reason, we aren't very nationalistic and are grounded enough to realise that what are forefathers did has no bearing on who we are as a person.
The monument at 07.43 is ""De Leeuw van Waterloo"" The Lion,s Mound ...It,s erected on the location where Prince William 2 of the netherlands was wounded during the battle of waterloo
Cacao beans were first introduced to Belgium when it was still under Spanish rule. They were being imported from the Spanish colonies in South America. Interestingly, it was also in Brussels that the mayor of Zurich got his first taste of hot chocolate and brought it back with him to Switzerland where it caught on as well. That eventually led to a Swiss chocolatier inventing the milk chocolate that the Swiss are now famous for. One Swiss chocolatier ended up marrying a Belgian and moved to Brussels. His son ended up inventing the chocolate pralines and is what made Belgium famous for its chocolates.
The benelux has a complex history , but their union is one of the most impresive piece of cooperation . these 3 small nations are 10% of the entire gdp of the European union. they posses most of the important offices of the EU and Nato , their cooperation even extend in to a Benelux Navy , airforce and army .
@@LuffyL-ch1ku 3 to be exact , with Antwerp , Rotterdam beeing the largest in europe combined they handel more cargo than the nex 10 combined , and Amsterdam is the 4th largest its an international gate way to europe.
@@nobbynobbs8182 Well they are part of the benelux union and defense charter there is even a benelux navy so yeah . They are part of one of the most advanced navys in the world . What luxembourg lack in man power they provide in logistic support and military purchases of transport aircraft , trucks etc etc.
What some people from both Belgium and the Netherlands sometimes forget, is that the cradle of Dutch culture and civilization lies in western Flanders. Many things like creating polders, the linnen industry, the first stock market, wealth etc. All comes from this area. As well as some of the earliest well known painters come from Flanders and Brabant. All of that later moved north during, and after the Dutch Revolt or the 80 years war.
The architecture is "Dutch" in the sense that it comes from the same culture of the Low Lands, but different because Flanders bloomed 1 or 2 centuries earlier than the Netherlands and the Northern architecture bloomed when protestant culture was dominant. Contrary to the catholics showing of wealth was frowned upon there so there's a lot of false modesty. There's also a lot more glass in bigger panes because glass technology had evolved but it was also an important weight saver for the soggy soils of the Netherlands.
I always laugh when ppl claim Brussels is bilingual. That's like saying german is belgium 3rd language. Officially this may be true, but reality paints a different picture. Many languages are spoken in Brussels but french clearly dominates the area. First time I visited Brussels, I was naive enough to think they would understand my dutch... That's only true for small parts of Brussels.
depends on where you go in brussels. the people from brussels itself will most likely speak french, but if you go to areas around schools and universities, you'll hear more dutch than french. Dutch schools in brussels are highly wanted bc the greater part of belgium still speaks dutch. So most people in brussels will understand what you're saying if you just keep it simple.
it's actually getting better. Altho a lot of people don't speak a word of dutch there which is a srs problem imo, a lot of cashiers etc do understand at least a bit of dutch
The city of 12:22 is Ghent (Gent). The building on the right side is 'Het Waterhuis aan de Bierkant' ('The Water house on the Beer side'), which is a pun because it's definitely a beer house on the water side. Has 165 different beers on the menu! Nice video ;)
No This is just the style from the Middle Ages 3:41 Ghent, Bruges, and Zoutleeuw,… (Wich is a small city near me) where really big cities in the Middle Ages. Important for export, also 7:48 this is where the battle of Waterloo was fought. It has a Hill with a lion on it and it’s called the lion of Waterloo. I’ve been there this summer. I’m so proud being a Belgian. We are a small country but we are so brave!!
That "mount" at Waterloo is a monument for the wounded Prince of the Netherlands. The lion on top is facing to France. As if it wants to say : "Till here, and no further".
3:11 The map he shows is Flanders under its 20th century definition. The medieval history he then elaborates upon only relates to the provinces of East and West Flanders (and surrounding areas) that used to belong to the County of Flanders. Other important late medieval cities in the region like Brussels, Antwerp and Leuven belonged to the Duchy of Brabant. That's also why he didn't name them. The province of Limburg belonged to different entities (predominantly; County of Loon / Prince-Bishopric of Liège).
A very extensive history of the Eighty Years' War (13 episodes of more than 1 hour, English spoken/Dutch subtitles) can be found on the Defragged History channel.
The monument at Waterloo to remember the battle against Napoleon, and where the Dutch crown-prince was wounded, is a huge column. Soil is mounted around it to make it a cone. On top there is the Dutch Lion. Stairs are made so you can reach the platform on top, walking around the monumental lion you have a view over the battle field. Lions are a symbol for the entire Netherlands (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg) because it appears in almost every coat of arms of each of them.
Build for the World Exhibition in 1958. Center of the Expo, like the Eiffel tower in Paris or Chrystal Palace in London. It represents an iron atom structure. Build out of steel, and the spheres are covered with polished aluminium. It has been restored and renovated in 2006 because it had lost its spectacular shine. Now it is worth a visit again because the spheres have exhibitions, restaurants and other things going on. Every sphere has a diameter of 60 feet, so they look small but are not!
The last picture is the central grand market square of Brussels ('grote markt' or 'grand place'). It is considdered one of the most beautiful central squares of Europe/world.
The peace monument at 7:49 is the "Lion" of Waterloo, the staircase leading up to it has over 200 stairs. There is also a museum nearby. The other monument at 11:14 is the Atomium, built for the world fair "Expo 58" in 1958 and remains a national symbol today. It's made of stainless steel and represents an iron crystal. You can visit the inside and there are elevators transporting you from one sphere to another.
8:10 yes that's a man made hill, as a burial site for the soldiers, that's a lion statue, made from melting the weapons of the soldiers and casting it as one huge lion.
so you have compared my city (Ghent) to The Netherlands twice , actually were not that far away (you can drive into Holland from here in less than an hour)
I wanted to explain the atomium real quick so here I go: The Atomium is basically a simplified version of the atoms in the element Iron (Fe) but it isn't correct because the electrons of Iron aren't shown in it. (I basically know this because my chemistry teacher explained this about a week ago)
The Atomium in Brussels was build for the World Expo in 1958. I've never been in it, only saw it from a distance. But Belgium is oké, for the chocolate and all the different beers the make. They even have a beer with my last name. And I love the humor!
Belgium was very important during the industrial revolution. Its steel industry was famous all over the world. Parts of the subways of Paris and other buildings in major cities like Cairo were build by Belgians with Belgian steel.
To find out more about the Atomium, here’s a short video about it: ua-cam.com/video/k0M_NmjZdUA/v-deo.html It’s a really cool piece of architecture, and it’s recently been completely renovated. It is open to the public (they do charge an entrance fee though). Also, there’s a nice panoramic restaurant inside the highest sphere - had dinner there once, quite the experience. The restaurant’s website is worth a visit in itself: www.atomiumrestaurant.be/en/virtual-tour/ If you ever make it to Belgium, it’s well worth a visit.
Waterloo is actually property of the netherlands, there was this funny discussion about who should mow the grass on the hill, the Belgians because its technically way more efficient because its surrounded by belgium, or the Netherlands who are actually responsible for this place. In the end an old belgian guy sacreficed himself to do it, which actually is a lot of work because its a big hill and its not easy to mow it.
The building you spotted @ 12:32 is called "het waterhuis aan de bierkant" translated it means "The waterhouse on the beerside" it's named like that as a joke since it's a pub with A LOT of beers and is located near the water. this is located in Ghent.
You are too fascinated on the Netherlands. Flanders, the flemish speaking part of belgium already florished in the 14th-15th Century (the city of Ghent was during a certain period the second largest town of western europe, only Paris was bigger!). You should definitely visit Belgium !
Also asphalt is a Belgian invention, commercial plastic, Big Bang theory, world wide web was the idea of a Belgian, electric tram, bakelite cellphone, the electric doorbell, anti conception pill, ATLAS-ICBM, natriumcarbonate, gypsy swing, stock market, neopreen synthetic rubber, internal combustion engine, chicory, jpeg conversion, imodium, inline skates, cricket, body mass index and so much more but these are the most well known.
The history with Belgium is Brabant, Limburg and Flanders (Vlaanderen) which are also parts of The Netherlands. The two full nations where 15 years together and this was no succes. The part who kicked the Spanish out is The Netherlands these days and the part what was under rule of the Spanish is Belgium. Hans Goedkoop with "de 80-jarige oorlog" is on youtube with english subtitles, but there is much more to watch about this peroid. Sorry for my terrible English. 🙃
When so few understand why Belgium ended up the way it is now, it's mostly because that region was largely occupied by the Habsburgs who were Catholics, France being it's own country and the Dutch provinces turning to Protestantism. With the Dutch provinces turning to Protestantism and thus slipping from Habsburg and Spanish rule, they started harboring everyone who wanted to flee the Catholic Church which was ruled by Rome. Those Dutch provinces later would unite as the country known as The Netherlands, and the dominant religious belief would be Protestant and thus resistant to the Catholic rule of Rome, and politically resisting to the rule of Spain as well. However, the region of Belgium remained Catholic and for a while still dominated by Spain. Wanting to state that Belgium as a country is a convoluted construction is a total misconception of history. What Belgium is, is mostly a region that was coveted by multiple European countries and which was dominated by several of them. But this to the point that eventually it didn't belong to or with any of them. To understand Belgians one has to understand that they prefer the differences as well as the similarities amongst themselves more than all the differences and far less of the similarities they have with the other European countries. The Flemish and the Walloons may have a linguistic difference, but they largely share the same culture and several cultural reference points that others don't have. And what's also typical for Belgians and their culture is that they have a lot of elements and traces of their neighboring countries cultures but combined and interwoven in their own distinct ways. To put it in an oversimplified way: Belgians mix and mingle parts of what the Dutch, the Germans, the French and the English are doing and then give it their own twist. And in many ways that shouldn't be surprising because historically Belgium is a productive and innovative region, but at the same time it's a region which has had to adapt a lot of the times. And it's also a bit of region that is based on the main characteristic that it really isn't anybody else's region. And as a European region it"s actually a place where a lot of the important cultural borders meet. That's what gives it it's contradictions and tensions as well as it's unique dynamic. Due to oversimplified logic assessments of some it may look easier when the Flemish would join The Netherlands and the Walloons would join France, but that is a sheer stupid oversimplification because this is based on selective cultural similarities, while it overlooks the many cultural differences. Any Belgian would always be an odd Dutchman an odd Frenchman and an odd German. Culturally they never would really fit in. It's highly likely it simply wouldn't gel.
Correct that knob is Denmark and partly also German, NL is where Saxons is written, Angles & Anglo-Saxon. England/Britain aka the Isle of Angles. Sweden and the Goths and Gotland, Got could be narrated as God, linguistically. The light and dark elves of mythology, and Norse/Germanic culture. Franks became the ruling group - and later France. I don't think all tribes are included here, its just the dominant tribes, if not mistaken.
Charlie, where you say "the" I know that word "het", that's a well-known bar in Ghent... it's called "Het Waterhuis Aan De Bierkant".... or The Waterhouse At The Beerside.. little wordplay.. Always welcome to join me there
The "Het" on the building is from "Het waterhuis aan de bierkant" which is a beer bar in Ghent located next to the Leie (Lys) river . It translates as " the water house at the beer front" which is a wink to "the beer house at the waterfront"
Fun fact, the meaning of Belg (which derrives from the old proto germanic word of Bolg) means to become filled with (Battle) rage/ anger which the Belgian people were known for because it has been in conflict a lot over the course of history! One of the first written texts about the Belgae by Julius Caesar called the Belgae the strongest of the germanics because a small warband managed to defeat 7 cohortes of Roman legionnaires.
I seriously don't recommend citing Caesar. He also described the Belgae as the most stupid of the Gauls (and not the Germanic tribes. Belgae were Celts). It's very much like how people cite Herodotus with the nice part about Egypt being a gift of the Nile, to then proceed in the next paragraph to describe how that makes egyptians lazy morons who couldn't grow a bad weed in any other conditions. These guys were very much busy building their own people's reputation. Crapping all over others was a way to do that.
7:10 The Habsburg Emperors gave Flanders/Belgium to their side line which ruled the Spanish Empire. But this line failed due to too much inbreeding (for securing the riches they won initially by marrying in other Houses), there was a war of Spanish succession (which the Habsburg party lost), and the Habsburg Emperor took Flanders back (which was then still formally part of the Holy Roman Empire he ruled).
1:50 : Roman, Belgea , histrorically stayed in use to describe the low countries, ofthen, but mostly without the upper half of the Netherlands, the ROMAN province Belgea, with uppon The Rhine, witch was the border of the roman empire for centuries ;-). so , Belgea started somewhat south of current Belgium, farrest north was Rotterdam, so MOST of the current dutch territory fell outside of Belgea, but still a good 30 to 40% was in it ;-).
8:18 Lion's Mound. hint: the flag of Flandres contains a lion... The mount is 43 m (141 ft) in height and has a circumference of 520 m (1706 ft). It is man made A statue of a lion standing upon a stone-block pedestal surmounts the hill. Jean-Louis Van Geel (1787-1852) sculpted the model lion, which closely resembles the 16th-century Medici lions. The lion is represented on the crests of both the Royal Arms of England and the Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom as well as on the personal coat of arms of the monarch of The Netherlands, and symbolises courage. Braemt silver medal ca 1826 Its right front paw is upon a sphere, signifying global victory. The statue weighs 28 tonnes (31 tons), has a height of 4.45 m (14.6 ft) and a length of 4.5 m (14.8 ft). William Cockerill's iron foundry in Liège cast the lion, in sections; a canal barge brought those pieces to Brussels; from there, heavy horse-drays drew the parts to Mont-St-Jean, a low ridge south of Waterloo. There is a legend that the foundry melted down brass from cannons that the French had left on the battlefield, in order to cast the metal lion. In reality, the foundry made nine separate partial casts in iron and assembled those components into one statue at the monument site.
Good to know: Belgium was the original regional name from the Somme River to half of the Netherlands. The name Nederlanden actually means the same as Belgium (Belgica). After the Roman Empire, the ancestors of the Flemish and Southern Netherlanders, namely the Franks (Germanic people), founded the first Kingdom in Western Europe 'Francia'. The center of this Kingdom (which later grew into the largest 'Franconian Empire' in Europe) was in Belgium. History has taken over the region name Belgium, the real name Francia. So the original name of France comes from a Germanic people, ancestors of the Flemish who are a bit mixed with Gallic Germanic tribes, and the Netherlands in fact means the same as Belgium: the lower regions. This is just the beginning but good to know ... and when you know this you start to look at this country differently. Greatings from Europe.
11:21 The Atomium is the symbol of EURATOM, the European Atomic Energy Community founded 1957 by France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and (West) Germany. It was one of the pre-EU European Communities, but was not formally merged into the EU 2009 like the other Communities.
I go to Belgium, 4 ore 5 times a year. From Spakenburg The Netherlands. To vistit friends and concerts. I'ts a 2.5 ,3 our drive. I thit Paris in 4.5 hr meny times. 500 km. For 12x Disney Paris. And the Tour the Frans finish. Drive to Paris on friday, affter a half day of work. On Saterday "Disney " and on sunday "the TOUR "FINISH. Greetings from Spakenburg The Netherlands
Liège in Dutch is called Luik. Yes there are similarities also because that was the fashion/style in the era that it was build. Not sure if we can speak of Belgian in 1512-1594, BTW, they are telling the history of the region, like said under French rule, under German (Austrian) rule. The lands belonged to kingdoms/dukedoms/dutchy-dutchies - why we speak Dutch. Pass the dutchie to the left hand side.
Yes, that was quick. And yes it is complicated. The Low Lands = what was then called the Netherlands = Belgium (minus a part in the east) + Luxemburg + the south of the contemporary Netherlands (Brabant, Zeeland) + Holland (those 2 provinces you heard about), were part of the Burgundy ruled Duchy, with very wealthy and autonomous cities in what is now called Belgium (Bruges, Ghent, Ypres, Tournai, Antwerp, Brussels, ...) and the south of The Netherlands (Dordrecht, Den Bosch, ...) famous for their textile industry, cosmopolitan trade centers, art, craftmanship, ... (14th and 15th century). Then came Charles the 5th of Habsburg, born in Ghent in 1500 and emperor of a vast realm including what was then called the Netherlands (Belgium minus that bit and all of what is now called the Netherlands) and basically all the rest of Europe except France and Portugal. When he died in 1555, the then called Netherlands came under Spanish rule (Charles' son, Habsburg King Philip II of Spain, a bit of a zealot, no, a downright fanatic Catholic). The rich Flemish cities revolted against his tax policies and his religious suppression of Protestantism. During the 80 year war, those Flemish cities (Ghent, Antwerp, ...) declared their independence and were subsequently reconquered by the Spanish armies, leaving tens or hundreds of thousands crafsmen, artists, publishers, merchants, labourers ... fleeing the south and settling in cities in Holland, thus helping to forge the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic, with Amsterdam now the most wealthy and powerfull city in these regions. The border that was then established is more or less the border as it is now. There is a difference when you look at the pictures of Ghent and Bruges as compaired to pictures of Amsterdam... These buildings are older (not that there are no cities in the contemporary Netherlands that aren't as lovely and old: Utrecht, Nijmegen, Haarlem, Leiden, ...)! The Habsburg dynasty basically had two branches: the Spanish and the Austrian, and the Austrian Habsburgs took over what is now called Belgium with what is now called the Netherlands booming as a independent merchant power. Then came Napoleon and the French, the battle of Waterloo, which he lost and only then, for 15 years (1815-1830), was Belgium really part of an independent nation called the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and it was the (Dutch) king of that country, Willem I, who build that hill of mud near Waterloo with a lion on top of it to commemorate the victory over Napoleon (where the British fought alongside the Prussians and the Dutch). There you go
The monument is simply on a hill so you can see it. And that house is prob not the farmer, in belgium barely any farmer lives next to their farm. And the atotmium has 11 balls that are supposed to stand for the provinces of belgium.
The mount in Waterloo in a monument erected on the spot where the prince of Orange fell, it later became a monument for the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. The Atomium(the big balls of Belgium, representing the 9 provinces of Belgium)was erected in 1958 during the world fair, today it's used for all sorts of things , like a museum restaurant and miscellaneous things.The reason that Holland , yes Holland, has a lot of things in common with Flanders, is because Holland, Zeeland aka Zeesvlaanderen were vassals to the county of Flanders, during the middle ages and The Renaissance Flanders was a supper power. Then during the Spanish inquisition, alot of Flemish merchants fled north to Amsterdam to flee the Persecution of the Spanish. A lot of the 80 years war was fought in Flanders , where the Flemish rebels called it's called the Guezen fought the Spanish. Though small in size the region now known as Belgium is packed with history. I found it sad the person in the video left out some of the true Flemish masters like Reubens, Breugel Sr and Jr ,and the brothers Van Eyck, to name but a few. You might have heard the term Venice of the north, although used today to refer to cities like Amsterdam and Copenhagen, the title belongs to Brugge that rivaled Venice in riches and it the only one who can claim that title. I am rather biased towards my home region and my people, Flanders is beautiful, Wallonië is like a miniature Oregon minus the ocean but they differ night from day at times. Again Flemish is related to Dutch but they are not the same, Dutch is a foreign language for the Flanders which we use as common language. I know how to speak Dutch from school where we were forced to speak it, but among our families and friends we speak our Flemish dialect. Dutch we only speak when dealing official stuff.
Very interesting if you want to know more about the history of Belgium is to look abroad it's borders as it all changed very quickly, here is a good representation of how much history it has ua-cam.com/video/UY9P0QSxlnI/v-deo.html
"So, Austria had Belgium for a while?" --> Dude, everyone had Belgium at some time. We must be the most conquered strip of land in the history of the world haha.
Spain and Austria never conquered Belgium, simply the kings of Spain and after the Emperors of Austria, all of them Habsbourg, were the natural lords of Flanders, Brabant, Hainaut... It's even the contrary, the duchess Marie de Bourgogne , who was "flemish" get married with Maximilien de Habsbourg, they had a son, Philippe le Beau who is considered the first king of Spain. His son, Charles Quint, who was born in Ghent, and who said "I'm not spanish, I'm flemish", was the second. He had to face revolts of spanish lords beacause he placed to many flemsih governors in Spân. In 1555, he separeted his empire in 2 parts one for his son Philippe II, who gets Spain, the 17th provincies, America... and the second to his other son Maiximilian received The Holy German Empire. When the last Habsbourg of Spain, died, the "Flanders" wanted to stay with their legitims lords, the Habsbougs of Austria as descendant of Charles Quint, even if Louis XIV wanred them for Spain where he had placed his nephew as king ! But each spanih kings and autrian emperors, had to swear to respect the laws of the country before becoming legal rulers. (Sorry for my bad english).
I was born in Brussels Besides the beer and chocolate we love to eat Do a search on Belgian traditional dishes. All originals going back to the Middle Ages Btw French fries are actually Belgian fries. Invented by Belgian cooks over 1000 years ago when they couldn't get fish for frying in the winter because of the frozen rivers and they decided to start frying potatoes..
The mound is the remembrance landmark that marks the battlefield where Napoleon got defeated. On top the mound there is a statue of a lion. The Lion's Mound, overlooking what once was a battlefield, commemorate the Allies' victory over Napoleon's imperial trips. The beast, placed on top of this 40 metres hill, seems to be roaring towards France still. Here's some more info on it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_of_Waterloo_1815
07:58 : this is the Lion of Waterloo, facing France on guard for more invasion (or so the legend says). It's a rather famous panorama. 09:15 the capital is bilingual. You will find both language and the administration is required to communicate in both. As for the independance, Netherland was heavely pressured by England to recognize it under the condition that Belgium would be a monarchy and not a republic. (in the end, if you look closely at both system, France is a monarchy calling itself a republic and Belgium is a republic calling itself a monarchy X'D) 10:10 ho trust me Congo is rich and not from the cacao ! Precious minerals, gemstones, you name it. The day Congo actually takes a hold on its ressources (rather than being pillaged by foreign nations and corporate, and yes, I include Belgium's colonialism here all country has a dark part of history) it will rule the world. 10:30 it helped but Belgium is the country of chocolate because its modern version was invented by a Belgian pharmacist 11:14 it's the Atomium a giant structure that you can visit, built for the Universal Exposition of 1958. There's a VERY good restaurant at the top. 10/10 recommend, affordable, good view but you have to book several days in advance to get a table. (ho and it's an atome of iron) 13:10 it's a flowercarpet, it's done every two years on the Grand Place ;)
I've asked for it before, but I'll repeat since you're now covering Belgium: This video about the two border towns Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-Nassau, which is really one town straddling the Belgian-Dutch border: ua-cam.com/video/FC52l4Jdn-I/v-deo.html
The South of the NL aka below rivers is Catholic - the Monarchy is reformed/protestant. (there have been a few flip flops, but Limburg is Catholic as Hell - Maastricht is a very historically religious hub - even historical ties with the Templars etc.) In the south of NL we celebrate Carnaval (Carna vale - Latin; without[vale] meat[carna] - fasting period) aka festival of fools - Mardi Gras etc. After the Carnaval festival of 3 days with a carnaval prince and princes that traditionally had say instead of the royals on these 3 days, the fasting begins, its on as-Wednesday; you go to the church (catholic) and they come out with a cross on their forehead with as after the service - 40 days of fasting - Easter etc. But the festivity goes back to pre-Christian traditions and cultures.
sorry to say it but as a flemish child the whole history isn'tnt showed, flemish (dutch speaking people where seen as lower class people in belgium, thats why belgium is so divided, and the frencg --h where seen as "higher ckass", thats why we are so divided
A short and mostly correct video (not to take for granted for English video's on Dutch history) is this one. ua-cam.com/video/g1AMiQmApQQ/v-deo.html Don't know about the last 2 minutes of that video though, too anglocentric. Another one is this. Don't know the video but know the maker from other video's. ua-cam.com/video/92RULCzpzcY/v-deo.html Defragged history is mentioned here too. It seems great work but let's say that if you wanted to make a tv-series about the 80-years war there's enough intrigue, horror, treason, politics, philosophy, battle, sieges, romance, heroism, cowardice, justice, greed, injustice, diplomacy, moral decay, innovation, guile and whatever to keep it running for 5 years, uninterrupted. So the question is how deep you want to get into the subject because 80 years is relatively short for the amount of things happening.
You were very suprised with the second Austrian possession of Belgium. Belgium (as the southern Netherlands) has been part of Burgundy, after that it went to the Habsburgs (you could also could've read Austria) just before becoming the Spanish Netherlands. After that period it went "back to" Austria again. My province (Limburg, or: Dutch Limburg, because Belgium also has half of Limburg) has had a similar history as Belgium, even though I'm Dutch. My province was one of the provinces that battled against the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1830 (except for Maastricht, Roermond en Venlo) and we were part of Belgium for 9 years, just until the peace treaty was ratified in 1839. Because Maastricht was very important to the Dutch, my province was split between Staats and Spanish rule, and it wasn't a very even split.
Concerning the Eighty Years War, there is an amusing and excellent series made by Defragged History! Not stuffy old history lessons, but in modern English with a lot of funny remarks, and very correct in content. ua-cam.com/video/gNcddIvip6A/v-deo.html
It"s the first time I see something mentioned about the horrible facts that happened under Leopold II in the Congo in a youtube video. Here in Belgium in history class it used to be not mentioned at all. But it is turning for the better. Not a lot of people here know or maybe knew that Leopold II is the fourth biggest mass murderer in the world. Nothing to be proud about, sure, doing like nothing happened there is deff worse.
The mound with the lion on top is a monument. Too bad they used earth to raise the mound from the ridge where Wellington placed most of his troops behind to hide his actual strength from Napoleon. By doing this they forever altered the geography of the battlefield. It's almost completely flat these days.
The south of the modern day NL is Germania Inferior - are all the 'borders' exactly like this representation - hard to say... but most likely non of the South part of modern day NL was Belgica. Also some of modern day Belgium is not in this region of Belgica as well. Asterix and Obelix the comics and animations are about the Belgica resisting and fighting the Roman Empire... All the green is Roman Empire territory. People have lived there since prehistory - who claimed to own the territories has shifted more than once. But claiming the land is not the same as living and working the lands. The history of human oppressions.
The capital of EU is brussels because the big country (France and germany) were ennemy since 1830 almost and that went way too far just before the first world war came out, And france and germany want their capital to be the capital of the europe but to keep france and germany not in war they decided to make another capital not far away the capital of europe so the choice was obvious, belgium share border with Germany and France
5:31 This is entirely false. The reformation was an active development throughout the Low Countries. So a development of Belgium, the Netherlands and neighbouring areas. The reformation may have been weak in some areas (e.g. Luxembourg), but was very strong in other areas, including those in the south. A good example is the town of Valenciennes. Also the Westhoek of the County of Flanders initially had a lot of Calvinism during the reformation. That's even where the Great Iconoclasm (Beeldenstorm) started. The war defined the areas that would become/remain Protestant/Catholic. Antwerp was probably the most important Calvinist town around the start of the reformation. The counter-reformation ensured that it would regain its Catholic faith.
If you ever come to Belgium the thing to see are clearly the city's, Brugge, Ghent, Brussels, Antwerp and Mechelen, the most famous ones where you can find the majority of the things illustrated in the video. Belgium is not so great Nature wise tho.
Where you Flemish and Antwerps excel in structures, we in 'the' Limburg excel ik nature. The national park is huge and amazing. Many beautiful walking and cycling routes through lush greenery, the stone coal municipalities also have an enormous dense amount of shops, supermarkets and very busy roads that makes everyone coming from another provice drop its jaws not expecting such an urban area in 'the' Limburg to be more busy, urban and advanced than most other municipalities and smaller cities in Flanders (although not comparable to bigger cities). Terrils resort is the luxury edition of Center parcs with an amazing spa unseen anywhere. Maasmechelen is the most multicultural municipality in the country with an amazing high Italian population and some if the best Italian restaurants.
Hey so i’m Belgian so I might can help you out with some of your questions... The Atomium is our national landmark, inside there are museum/restaurant/sightseeing spots/... ( a monument like France has the Eiffel Tower, London- Big Bang, Germany -the Berlin Wall...) the flowers carpet is something volunteers make every year just for art. It’s made out of one kind of flower It only stays there for 4 days and It’s in Brussels.the monument one the hill Is a pyramid of stones cover with gras whit a lion on it, because a lion is Belgium’s animal on the escutcheon and it’s build in memory for the war of Waterloo.
Sure some of these pictures are really beautiful , but you need to know that most of these pictures have been take in summer... most of the time it’s more grey weather and pretty cold. But summer is amazing! Some places here are truly magical and I like to think that I’m very lucky to be born in such a safe and well evolved country like this... there are other parts of the wold where life is way much harder then ours I think...
Have a nice weekend!
( Bad English mode: -probably ON. )
He broerland Nou je Engels valt te begrijpen was zelf ook benieuwd naar atomium
Hah! That picture of 'the architecture' in the video you said was grand: that's city hall in Antwerp, where I live :)
It's a small country with lots of history. Being part of any big player in Western Europe for almost 2k years.
And even if it's a very small country, it's people have had lots of influence on the world at large for thousands of years.
The internet is claimed to be invented by a Brit... but there was a Belgian colleague that helped him with it to create the revised version that actually led to the world wide web.
The big bang theory was formulated by a Belgian cosmologist/priest
Mercator who's chart making methods are used to this day and are an essential method that makes GPS function
Heck, look at Kpop stars and fans making the V-signs for photoshoots.... they learned that peace hand sign from Americans... who took it from the Brits...specifically Churchill was famous for making the V-sign during the war years.... which he got from a Belgian politician (and subsequently the Belgian resistance) during WW2 (V meaning Victory (in French) and freedom (Vrijheid in Dutch)).. so the one leg of the V was Victory, the other freedom, both are needed because victory leads to freedom and therefor peace... In other words, the 'cutesy' thing that Kpop stars do has it's origins in a Belgium psyop
But, unlike the Brits or the French or even the Dutch, we don't toot our own horn that much if for no other reason, we aren't very nationalistic and are grounded enough to realise that what are forefathers did has no bearing on who we are as a person.
The monument at 07.43 is ""De Leeuw van Waterloo"" The Lion,s Mound ...It,s erected on the location where Prince William 2 of the netherlands was wounded during the battle of waterloo
It is the monument where Napoleon was defeated in 1815, no less, no more....
I was told it was facing the direction to France to strike fear to the French if they would ever try to attack Belgium again
@@luckylynx613 ans it s made with french canons steel
Cacao beans were first introduced to Belgium when it was still under Spanish rule. They were being imported from the Spanish colonies in South America. Interestingly, it was also in Brussels that the mayor of Zurich got his first taste of hot chocolate and brought it back with him to Switzerland where it caught on as well. That eventually led to a Swiss chocolatier inventing the milk chocolate that the Swiss are now famous for. One Swiss chocolatier ended up marrying a Belgian and moved to Brussels. His son ended up inventing the chocolate pralines and is what made Belgium famous for its chocolates.
The benelux has a complex history , but their union is one of the most impresive piece of cooperation . these 3 small nations are 10% of the entire gdp of the European union. they posses most of the important offices of the EU and Nato , their cooperation even extend in to a Benelux Navy , airforce and army .
It also has the 2 largest ports in Europe
@@LuffyL-ch1ku 3 to be exact , with Antwerp , Rotterdam beeing the largest in europe combined they handel more cargo than the nex 10 combined , and Amsterdam is the 4th largest its an international gate way to europe.
@@marcusfranconium3392 yea it truly is the european industrial hub
I would Imagine that Luxemburg's navy is a force to be reckoned with ;)
@@nobbynobbs8182 Well they are part of the benelux union and defense charter there is even a benelux navy so yeah .
They are part of one of the most advanced navys in the world . What luxembourg lack in man power they provide in logistic support and military purchases of transport aircraft , trucks etc etc.
What some people from both Belgium and the Netherlands sometimes forget, is that the cradle of Dutch culture and civilization lies in western Flanders. Many things like creating polders, the linnen industry, the first stock market, wealth etc. All comes from this area. As well as some of the earliest well known painters come from Flanders and Brabant. All of that later moved north during, and after the Dutch Revolt or the 80 years war.
Blablabla.. zo lust ik er nog wel een paar
The architecture is "Dutch" in the sense that it comes from the same culture of the Low Lands, but different because Flanders bloomed 1 or 2 centuries earlier than the Netherlands and the Northern architecture bloomed when protestant culture was dominant. Contrary to the catholics showing of wealth was frowned upon there so there's a lot of false modesty. There's also a lot more glass in bigger panes because glass technology had evolved but it was also an important weight saver for the soggy soils of the Netherlands.
I always laugh when ppl claim Brussels is bilingual. That's like saying german is belgium 3rd language. Officially this may be true, but reality paints a different picture. Many languages are spoken in Brussels but french clearly dominates the area. First time I visited Brussels, I was naive enough to think they would understand my dutch... That's only true for small parts of Brussels.
idd eigenlijk gewoon hoeilaart maar in de binnenstad wordt er gewoon geen nederlands gesproken
depends on where you go in brussels. the people from brussels itself will most likely speak french, but if you go to areas around schools and universities, you'll hear more dutch than french. Dutch schools in brussels are highly wanted bc the greater part of belgium still speaks dutch. So most people in brussels will understand what you're saying if you just keep it simple.
@@jefke_de_dino8380 I have a different experience. Unless you mean real simple. As in a couple of words.
it's actually getting better. Altho a lot of people don't speak a word of dutch there which is a srs problem imo, a lot of cashiers etc do understand at least a bit of dutch
@Koopa Library Ik hoor elke dag vlaams in Brussel en dit ook buiten de Dansaertwijk. En ik ben geen nederlandstalige brusselaar...
The city of 12:22 is Ghent (Gent). The building on the right side is 'Het Waterhuis aan de Bierkant' ('The Water house on the Beer side'), which is a pun because it's definitely a beer house on the water side. Has 165 different beers on the menu!
Nice video ;)
Saxophone is invented in Belgium to. Adolphe Sax. And the atomium is magnified 165 billion times for 1958 Brussels World's Fair.
No This is just the style from the Middle Ages 3:41 Ghent, Bruges, and Zoutleeuw,… (Wich is a small city near me) where really big cities in the Middle Ages. Important for export, also 7:48 this is where the battle of Waterloo was fought. It has a Hill with a lion on it and it’s called the lion of Waterloo. I’ve been there this summer. I’m so proud being a Belgian. We are a small country but we are so brave!!
That "mount" at Waterloo is a monument for the wounded Prince of the Netherlands. The lion on top is facing to France. As if it wants to say : "Till here, and no further".
3:11 The map he shows is Flanders under its 20th century definition. The medieval history he then elaborates upon only relates to the provinces of East and West Flanders (and surrounding areas) that used to belong to the County of Flanders. Other important late medieval cities in the region like Brussels, Antwerp and Leuven belonged to the Duchy of Brabant. That's also why he didn't name them. The province of Limburg belonged to different entities (predominantly; County of Loon / Prince-Bishopric of Liège).
A very extensive history of the Eighty Years' War (13 episodes of more than 1 hour, English spoken/Dutch subtitles) can be found on the Defragged History channel.
The monument at Waterloo to remember the battle against Napoleon, and where the Dutch crown-prince was wounded, is a huge column. Soil is mounted around it to make it a cone. On top there is the Dutch Lion. Stairs are made so you can reach the platform on top, walking around the monumental lion you have a view over the battle field. Lions are a symbol for the entire Netherlands (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg) because it appears in almost every coat of arms of each of them.
i love how you react to belgium, and you have almost belgian chocolate in the backround. Cote D´or
The atomium is like the "eiffel tower" of belgium, but less famous ofcourse. A lot goes on inside those balls.
Build for the World Exhibition in 1958. Center of the Expo, like the Eiffel tower in Paris or Chrystal Palace in London.
It represents an iron atom structure. Build out of steel, and the spheres are covered with polished aluminium.
It has been restored and renovated in 2006 because it had lost its spectacular shine.
Now it is worth a visit again because the spheres have exhibitions, restaurants and other things going on.
Every sphere has a diameter of 60 feet, so they look small but are not!
The last picture is the central grand market square of Brussels ('grote markt' or 'grand place'). It is considdered one of the most beautiful central squares of Europe/world.
The peace monument at 7:49 is the "Lion" of Waterloo, the staircase leading up to it has over 200 stairs. There is also a museum nearby. The other monument at 11:14 is the Atomium, built for the world fair "Expo 58" in 1958 and remains a national symbol today. It's made of stainless steel and represents an iron crystal. You can visit the inside and there are elevators transporting you from one sphere to another.
8:10 yes that's a man made hill, as a burial site for the soldiers, that's a lion statue, made from melting the weapons of the soldiers and casting it as one huge lion.
so you have compared my city (Ghent) to The Netherlands twice , actually were not that far away (you can drive into Holland from here in less than an hour)
The series The Dutch Golden age is a excellent 12 ep video to check Dutch history each one lasting 30 min.you 'll be amazed.
I wanted to explain the atomium real quick so here I go: The Atomium is basically a simplified version of the atoms in the element Iron (Fe) but it isn't correct because the electrons of Iron aren't shown in it. (I basically know this because my chemistry teacher explained this about a week ago)
The Atomium in Brussels was build for the World Expo in 1958. I've never been in it, only saw it from a distance.
But Belgium is oké, for the chocolate and all the different beers the make. They even have a beer with my last name.
And I love the humor!
@wim caubergs corrected
yes what you see at 13.14 is a field of flowers placed hand by hand like dominoes
Belgium was very important during the industrial revolution. Its steel industry was famous all over the world. Parts of the subways of Paris and other buildings in major cities like Cairo were build by Belgians with Belgian steel.
To find out more about the Atomium, here’s a short video about it: ua-cam.com/video/k0M_NmjZdUA/v-deo.html
It’s a really cool piece of architecture, and it’s recently been completely renovated. It is open to the public (they do charge an entrance fee though). Also, there’s a nice panoramic restaurant inside the highest sphere - had dinner there once, quite the experience. The restaurant’s website is worth a visit in itself: www.atomiumrestaurant.be/en/virtual-tour/
If you ever make it to Belgium, it’s well worth a visit.
When I saw a notification of your video I immediately clicked on it
Waterloo is actually property of the netherlands, there was this funny discussion about who should mow the grass on the hill, the Belgians because its technically way more efficient because its surrounded by belgium, or the Netherlands who are actually responsible for this place. In the end an old belgian guy sacreficed himself to do it, which actually is a lot of work because its a big hill and its not easy to mow it.
Aw, our little brother with Special Needs... But we love them! Some of the nicest people on the planet!
The building you spotted @ 12:32 is called "het waterhuis aan de bierkant" translated it means "The waterhouse on the beerside" it's named like that as a joke since it's a pub with A LOT of beers and is located near the water. this is located in Ghent.
You are too fascinated on the Netherlands. Flanders, the flemish speaking part of belgium already florished in the 14th-15th Century (the city of Ghent was during a certain period the second largest town of western europe, only Paris was bigger!). You should definitely visit Belgium !
Also asphalt is a Belgian invention, commercial plastic, Big Bang theory, world wide web was the idea of a Belgian, electric tram, bakelite cellphone, the electric doorbell, anti conception pill, ATLAS-ICBM, natriumcarbonate, gypsy swing, stock market, neopreen synthetic rubber, internal combustion engine, chicory, jpeg conversion, imodium, inline skates, cricket, body mass index and so much more but these are the most well known.
WOW!! That was fast!! Sorry I missed the stream. I need more details on a few things later. Keep it up!!
The history with Belgium is Brabant, Limburg and Flanders (Vlaanderen) which are also parts of The Netherlands.
The two full nations where 15 years together and this was no succes.
The part who kicked the Spanish out is The Netherlands these days and the part what was under rule of the Spanish is Belgium.
Hans Goedkoop with "de 80-jarige oorlog" is on youtube with english subtitles, but there is much more to watch about this peroid.
Sorry for my terrible English. 🙃
The mount and the monument is a ground hill with a lion on it in waterloo
To remember the battle field of waterloo ,
When so few understand why Belgium ended up the way it is now, it's mostly because that region was largely occupied by the Habsburgs who were Catholics, France being it's own country and the Dutch provinces turning to Protestantism. With the Dutch provinces turning to Protestantism and thus slipping from Habsburg and Spanish rule, they started harboring everyone who wanted to flee the Catholic Church which was ruled by Rome. Those Dutch provinces later would unite as the country known as The Netherlands, and the dominant religious belief would be Protestant and thus resistant to the Catholic rule of Rome, and politically resisting to the rule of Spain as well. However, the region of Belgium remained Catholic and for a while still dominated by Spain. Wanting to state that Belgium as a country is a convoluted construction is a total misconception of history. What Belgium is, is mostly a region that was coveted by multiple European countries and which was dominated by several of them. But this to the point that eventually it didn't belong to or with any of them.
To understand Belgians one has to understand that they prefer the differences as well as the similarities amongst themselves more than all the differences and far less of the similarities they have with the other European countries. The Flemish and the Walloons may have a linguistic difference, but they largely share the same culture and several cultural reference points that others don't have. And what's also typical for Belgians and their culture is that they have a lot of elements and traces of their neighboring countries cultures but combined and interwoven in their own distinct ways. To put it in an oversimplified way: Belgians mix and mingle parts of what the Dutch, the Germans, the French and the English are doing and then give it their own twist. And in many ways that shouldn't be surprising because historically Belgium is a productive and innovative region, but at the same time it's a region which has had to adapt a lot of the times. And it's also a bit of region that is based on the main characteristic that it really isn't anybody else's region. And as a European region it"s actually a place where a lot of the important cultural borders meet. That's what gives it it's contradictions and tensions as well as it's unique dynamic. Due to oversimplified logic assessments of some it may look easier when the Flemish would join The Netherlands and the Walloons would join France, but that is a sheer stupid oversimplification because this is based on selective cultural similarities, while it overlooks the many cultural differences. Any Belgian would always be an odd Dutchman an odd Frenchman and an odd German. Culturally they never would really fit in. It's highly likely it simply wouldn't gel.
Correct that knob is Denmark and partly also German, NL is where Saxons is written, Angles & Anglo-Saxon. England/Britain aka the Isle of Angles.
Sweden and the Goths and Gotland, Got could be narrated as God, linguistically. The light and dark elves of mythology, and Norse/Germanic culture.
Franks became the ruling group - and later France.
I don't think all tribes are included here, its just the dominant tribes, if not mistaken.
Charlie, where you say "the" I know that word "het", that's a well-known bar in Ghent... it's called "Het Waterhuis Aan De Bierkant".... or The Waterhouse At The Beerside.. little wordplay.. Always welcome to join me there
The "Het" on the building is from "Het waterhuis aan de bierkant" which is a beer bar in Ghent located next to the Leie (Lys) river . It translates as " the water house at the beer front" which is a wink to "the beer house at the waterfront"
and it's in Ghent
Belgium is like the little but smarter brother of The Netherlands
NOT!!!! 😂😂😂
There are walking 2 Belgium people on the street.
Ask 1 to the other:"May I walk in the middle?"
@@appief1racepuch646 I'm not sure if you know but the Education system in Belgium is ranked higher than the Netherlands
@@lesliej.5612 Ranking by Belgiums 😂
@@appief1racepuch646 Belgians not Belgiums! Prove that the Flemish educational system is more advanced.
the atomium was built for world exposition in 1958 it was ment to be taken down but the dident and now its a museum and it is in Brussels
Fun fact, the meaning of Belg (which derrives from the old proto germanic word of Bolg) means to become filled with (Battle) rage/ anger which the Belgian people were known for because it has been in conflict a lot over the course of history! One of the first written texts about the Belgae by Julius Caesar called the Belgae the strongest of the germanics because a small warband managed to defeat 7 cohortes of Roman legionnaires.
I seriously don't recommend citing Caesar. He also described the Belgae as the most stupid of the Gauls (and not the Germanic tribes. Belgae were Celts). It's very much like how people cite Herodotus with the nice part about Egypt being a gift of the Nile, to then proceed in the next paragraph to describe how that makes egyptians lazy morons who couldn't grow a bad weed in any other conditions. These guys were very much busy building their own people's reputation. Crapping all over others was a way to do that.
7:10 The Habsburg Emperors gave Flanders/Belgium to their side line which ruled the Spanish Empire. But this line failed due to too much inbreeding (for securing the riches they won initially by marrying in other Houses), there was a war of Spanish succession (which the Habsburg party lost), and the Habsburg Emperor took Flanders back (which was then still formally part of the Holy Roman Empire he ruled).
1:50 : Roman, Belgea , histrorically stayed in use to describe the low countries, ofthen, but mostly without the upper half of the Netherlands,
the ROMAN province Belgea, with uppon The Rhine, witch was the border of the roman empire for centuries ;-).
so , Belgea started somewhat south of current Belgium, farrest north was Rotterdam, so MOST of the current dutch territory fell outside of Belgea, but still a good 30 to 40% was in it ;-).
8:18 Lion's Mound. hint: the flag of Flandres contains a lion... The mount is 43 m (141 ft) in height and has a circumference of 520 m (1706 ft). It is man made
A statue of a lion standing upon a stone-block pedestal surmounts the hill. Jean-Louis Van Geel (1787-1852) sculpted the model lion, which closely resembles the 16th-century Medici lions. The lion is represented on the crests of both the Royal Arms of England and the Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom as well as on the personal coat of arms of the monarch of The Netherlands, and symbolises courage.
Braemt silver medal ca 1826
Its right front paw is upon a sphere, signifying global victory. The statue weighs 28 tonnes (31 tons), has a height of 4.45 m (14.6 ft) and a length of 4.5 m (14.8 ft). William Cockerill's iron foundry in Liège cast the lion, in sections; a canal barge brought those pieces to Brussels; from there, heavy horse-drays drew the parts to Mont-St-Jean, a low ridge south of Waterloo.
There is a legend that the foundry melted down brass from cannons that the French had left on the battlefield, in order to cast the metal lion. In reality, the foundry made nine separate partial casts in iron and assembled those components into one statue at the monument site.
Good to know: Belgium was the original regional name from the Somme River to half of the Netherlands. The name Nederlanden actually means the same as Belgium (Belgica). After the Roman Empire, the ancestors of the Flemish and Southern Netherlanders, namely the Franks (Germanic people), founded the first Kingdom in Western Europe 'Francia'. The center of this Kingdom (which later grew into the largest 'Franconian Empire' in Europe) was in Belgium. History has taken over the region name Belgium, the real name Francia. So the original name of France comes from a Germanic people, ancestors of the Flemish who are a bit mixed with Gallic Germanic tribes, and the Netherlands in fact means the same as Belgium: the lower regions. This is just the beginning but good to know ... and when you know this you start to look at this country differently. Greatings from Europe.
11:21 The Atomium is the symbol of EURATOM, the European Atomic Energy Community founded 1957 by France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and (West) Germany. It was one of the pre-EU European Communities, but was not formally merged into the EU 2009 like the other Communities.
Mèh... Not correct. It's a symbol of industrial and technological progress after WWII and represents an pure element of iron.
11:50 because Brussel is the center of europe and (den haag netherlands) world court of justice also because of the center position
11:24 This is a monument representing the structure of the chocolate mollecule
I go to Belgium, 4 ore 5 times a year. From Spakenburg The Netherlands.
To vistit friends and concerts. I'ts a 2.5 ,3 our drive. I thit Paris in 4.5 hr meny times. 500 km. For 12x Disney Paris. And the Tour the Frans finish.
Drive to Paris on friday, affter a half day of work. On Saterday "Disney " and on sunday "the TOUR "FINISH.
Greetings from Spakenburg The Netherlands
Liège in Dutch is called Luik. Yes there are similarities also because that was the fashion/style in the era that it was build.
Not sure if we can speak of Belgian in 1512-1594, BTW, they are telling the history of the region, like said under French rule, under German (Austrian) rule.
The lands belonged to kingdoms/dukedoms/dutchy-dutchies - why we speak Dutch. Pass the dutchie to the left hand side.
Yes, that was quick. And yes it is complicated. The Low Lands = what was then called the Netherlands = Belgium (minus a part in the east) + Luxemburg + the south of the contemporary Netherlands (Brabant, Zeeland) + Holland (those 2 provinces you heard about), were part of the Burgundy ruled Duchy, with very wealthy and autonomous cities in what is now called Belgium (Bruges, Ghent, Ypres, Tournai, Antwerp, Brussels, ...) and the south of The Netherlands (Dordrecht, Den Bosch, ...) famous for their textile industry, cosmopolitan trade centers, art, craftmanship, ... (14th and 15th century).
Then came Charles the 5th of Habsburg, born in Ghent in 1500 and emperor of a vast realm including what was then called the Netherlands (Belgium minus that bit and all of what is now called the Netherlands) and basically all the rest of Europe except France and Portugal. When he died in 1555, the then called Netherlands came under Spanish rule (Charles' son, Habsburg King Philip II of Spain, a bit of a zealot, no, a downright fanatic Catholic). The rich Flemish cities revolted against his tax policies and his religious suppression of Protestantism. During the 80 year war, those Flemish cities (Ghent, Antwerp, ...) declared their independence and were subsequently reconquered by the Spanish armies, leaving tens or hundreds of thousands crafsmen, artists, publishers, merchants, labourers ... fleeing the south and settling in cities in Holland, thus helping to forge the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic, with Amsterdam now the most wealthy and powerfull city in these regions. The border that was then established is more or less the border as it is now. There is a difference when you look at the pictures of Ghent and Bruges as compaired to pictures of Amsterdam... These buildings are older (not that there are no cities in the contemporary Netherlands that aren't as lovely and old: Utrecht, Nijmegen, Haarlem, Leiden, ...)!
The Habsburg dynasty basically had two branches: the Spanish and the Austrian, and the Austrian Habsburgs took over what is now called Belgium with what is now called the Netherlands booming as a independent merchant power. Then came Napoleon and the French, the battle of Waterloo, which he lost and only then, for 15 years (1815-1830), was Belgium really part of an independent nation called the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and it was the (Dutch) king of that country, Willem I, who build that hill of mud near Waterloo with a lion on top of it to commemorate the victory over Napoleon (where the British fought alongside the Prussians and the Dutch).
There you go
The monument is simply on a hill so you can see it. And that house is prob not the farmer, in belgium barely any farmer lives next to their farm. And the atotmium has 11 balls that are supposed to stand for the provinces of belgium.
The mount in Waterloo in a monument erected on the spot where the prince of Orange fell, it later became a monument for the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. The Atomium(the big balls of Belgium, representing the 9 provinces of Belgium)was erected in 1958 during the world fair, today it's used for all sorts of things , like a museum restaurant and miscellaneous things.The reason that Holland , yes Holland, has a lot of things in common with Flanders, is because Holland, Zeeland aka Zeesvlaanderen were vassals to the county of Flanders, during the middle ages and The Renaissance Flanders was a supper power. Then during the Spanish inquisition, alot of Flemish merchants fled north to Amsterdam to flee the Persecution of the Spanish. A lot of the 80 years war was fought in Flanders , where the Flemish rebels called it's called the Guezen fought the Spanish. Though small in size the region now known as Belgium is packed with history. I found it sad the person in the video left out some of the true Flemish masters like Reubens, Breugel Sr and Jr ,and the brothers Van Eyck, to name but a few. You might have heard the term Venice of the north, although used today to refer to cities like Amsterdam and Copenhagen, the title belongs to Brugge that rivaled Venice in riches and it the only one who can claim that title. I am rather biased towards my home region and my people, Flanders is beautiful, Wallonië is like a miniature Oregon minus the ocean but they differ night from day at times. Again Flemish is related to Dutch but they are not the same, Dutch is a foreign language for the Flanders which we use as common language. I know how to speak Dutch from school where we were forced to speak it, but among our families and friends we speak our Flemish dialect. Dutch we only speak when dealing official stuff.
Charlie.....you are very great about general geography.....Roman Belgica was perhaps an ancestor of modern-Belgium
Based on your comments, you already learned quite a lot about this region. Good for you.
Very interesting if you want to know more about the history of Belgium is to look abroad it's borders as it all changed very quickly, here is a good representation of how much history it has
ua-cam.com/video/UY9P0QSxlnI/v-deo.html
If you want to know more I recommend 'History with Hilbert' because he is dutch and made a series about it
"So, Austria had Belgium for a while?" --> Dude, everyone had Belgium at some time. We must be the most conquered strip of land in the history of the world haha.
Spain and Austria never conquered Belgium, simply the kings of Spain and after the Emperors of Austria, all of them Habsbourg, were the natural lords of Flanders, Brabant, Hainaut... It's even the contrary, the duchess Marie de Bourgogne , who was "flemish" get married with Maximilien de Habsbourg, they had a son, Philippe le Beau who is considered the first king of Spain. His son, Charles Quint, who was born in Ghent, and who said "I'm not spanish, I'm flemish", was the second. He had to face revolts of spanish lords beacause he placed to many flemsih governors in Spân. In 1555, he separeted his empire in 2 parts one for his son Philippe II, who gets Spain, the 17th provincies, America... and the second to his other son Maiximilian received The Holy German Empire. When the last Habsbourg of Spain, died, the "Flanders" wanted to stay with their legitims lords, the Habsbougs of Austria as descendant of Charles Quint, even if Louis XIV wanred them for Spain where he had placed his nephew as king ! But each spanih kings and autrian emperors, had to swear to respect the laws of the country before becoming legal rulers.
(Sorry for my bad english).
@@sergejean8309 It's nice to see someone being so interested and knowledgable of history. Greetings, Bart from Belgium (flemish speaking). ;)
@@AtheistBelgium Dank u, ja ik houd zeer van geschidenis. Ik kan niet veel meer zeggen omdat mijn Nederlands is niet zo rijk.
I was born in Brussels
Besides the beer and chocolate we love to eat
Do a search on Belgian traditional dishes.
All originals going back to the Middle Ages
Btw French fries are actually Belgian fries.
Invented by Belgian cooks over 1000 years ago when they couldn't get fish for frying in the winter because of the frozen rivers and they decided to start frying potatoes..
At 12:51 they show Max Verstappen in the F1 car, but he's Dutch :)
Belgian mother and Belgian sports licence for karting
The mound is the remembrance landmark that marks the battlefield where Napoleon got defeated. On top the mound there is a statue of a lion. The Lion's Mound, overlooking what once was a battlefield, commemorate the Allies' victory over Napoleon's imperial trips. The beast, placed on top of this 40 metres hill, seems to be roaring towards France still. Here's some more info on it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_of_Waterloo_1815
The wool was not just imported from england. A lot of it was locally produced in Flanders. nice vid
Most of the British wool was Scottish and not English.
Belgium is just a 20 minute drive, that is great with the gas prices in the Netherlands.
Tons of Dutch neighbours are filling up at our gas stations xD
07:58 : this is the Lion of Waterloo, facing France on guard for more invasion (or so the legend says). It's a rather famous panorama. 09:15 the capital is bilingual. You will find both language and the administration is required to communicate in both. As for the independance, Netherland was heavely pressured by England to recognize it under the condition that Belgium would be a monarchy and not a republic. (in the end, if you look closely at both system, France is a monarchy calling itself a republic and Belgium is a republic calling itself a monarchy X'D) 10:10 ho trust me Congo is rich and not from the cacao ! Precious minerals, gemstones, you name it. The day Congo actually takes a hold on its ressources (rather than being pillaged by foreign nations and corporate, and yes, I include Belgium's colonialism here all country has a dark part of history) it will rule the world. 10:30 it helped but Belgium is the country of chocolate because its modern version was invented by a Belgian pharmacist 11:14 it's the Atomium a giant structure that you can visit, built for the Universal Exposition of 1958. There's a VERY good restaurant at the top. 10/10 recommend, affordable, good view but you have to book several days in advance to get a table. (ho and it's an atome of iron) 13:10 it's a flowercarpet, it's done every two years on the Grand Place ;)
I've asked for it before, but I'll repeat since you're now covering Belgium: This video about the two border towns Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-Nassau, which is really one town straddling the Belgian-Dutch border: ua-cam.com/video/FC52l4Jdn-I/v-deo.html
the atomium: you might have an eifel tower or a statue of liberty but have balls of steel!
The Atomium is a giant iron christal, built for the 1958 World Exposition.
The monument of waterloo seen in the video is a lion looking to france to "scare" napoleons armies to never cime back to fight
The South of the NL aka below rivers is Catholic - the Monarchy is reformed/protestant. (there have been a few flip flops, but Limburg is Catholic as Hell - Maastricht is a very historically religious hub - even historical ties with the Templars etc.) In the south of NL we celebrate Carnaval (Carna vale - Latin; without[vale] meat[carna] - fasting period) aka festival of fools - Mardi Gras etc. After the Carnaval festival of 3 days with a carnaval prince and princes that traditionally had say instead of the royals on these 3 days, the fasting begins, its on as-Wednesday; you go to the church (catholic) and they come out with a cross on their forehead with as after the service - 40 days of fasting - Easter etc. But the festivity goes back to pre-Christian traditions and cultures.
6:10 best videos on the Eighty Years' War are found at ua-cam.com/users/DefraggedHistory
Or check out their story of the Batavia.
I live in Belgium ^^ & work proudly @ the Antwerp harbor A.M.A. :P
sorry to say it but as a flemish child the whole history isn'tnt showed, flemish (dutch speaking people where seen as lower class people in belgium, thats why belgium is so divided, and the frencg --h where seen as "higher ckass", thats why we are so divided
Nice Charlie!
Greetings from Belgium!
Picture of Ghent, comment "looks very Netherlands like"
Ouch.
A short and mostly correct video (not to take for granted for English video's on Dutch history) is this one. ua-cam.com/video/g1AMiQmApQQ/v-deo.html
Don't know about the last 2 minutes of that video though, too anglocentric.
Another one is this. Don't know the video but know the maker from other video's.
ua-cam.com/video/92RULCzpzcY/v-deo.html
Defragged history is mentioned here too. It seems great work but let's say that if you wanted to make a tv-series about the 80-years war there's enough intrigue, horror, treason, politics, philosophy, battle, sieges, romance, heroism, cowardice, justice, greed, injustice, diplomacy, moral decay, innovation, guile and whatever to keep it running for 5 years, uninterrupted. So the question is how deep you want to get into the subject because 80 years is relatively short for the amount of things happening.
You were very suprised with the second Austrian possession of Belgium. Belgium (as the southern Netherlands) has been part of Burgundy, after that it went to the Habsburgs (you could also could've read Austria) just before becoming the Spanish Netherlands. After that period it went "back to" Austria again. My province (Limburg, or: Dutch Limburg, because Belgium also has half of Limburg) has had a similar history as Belgium, even though I'm Dutch. My province was one of the provinces that battled against the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1830 (except for Maastricht, Roermond en Venlo) and we were part of Belgium for 9 years, just until the peace treaty was ratified in 1839. Because Maastricht was very important to the Dutch, my province was split between Staats and Spanish rule, and it wasn't a very even split.
Concerning the Eighty Years War, there is an amusing and excellent series made by Defragged History!
Not stuffy old history lessons, but in modern English with a lot of funny remarks, and very correct in content.
ua-cam.com/video/gNcddIvip6A/v-deo.html
This is really irrelevant but I just had the best orange ever
dude thats amazing
@@deur3598 I know right!
It"s the first time I see something mentioned about the horrible facts that happened under Leopold II in the Congo in a youtube video. Here in Belgium in history class it used to be not mentioned at all. But it is turning for the better. Not a lot of people here know or maybe knew that Leopold II is the fourth biggest mass murderer in the world. Nothing to be proud about, sure, doing like nothing happened there is deff worse.
It's a lion that stands on top of that mountain facing France
Search Lion's Mound in Waterloo
waterloo is just dirt with a lion on top so it can stand out
each video about Belgium seems to put in more historical inaccuracies than the other
i'd be glad to give you a tour when you are in begium ^^
so, it's only about flanders !
What abouth Belgium being one of the biggest small arms manufactior in the world. Funk Holland;-))
Please forget the Netherlands, Flanders is much older then the Netherlands
The mound with the lion on top is a monument. Too bad they used earth to raise the mound from the ridge where Wellington placed most of his troops behind to hide his actual strength from Napoleon. By doing this they forever altered the geography of the battlefield. It's almost completely flat these days.
Belgium is known for its chocolate, but Amsterdam is the biggest cacao harbor in the world.
The south of the modern day NL is Germania Inferior - are all the 'borders' exactly like this representation - hard to say... but most likely non of the South part of modern day NL was Belgica. Also some of modern day Belgium is not in this region of Belgica as well. Asterix and Obelix the comics and animations are about the Belgica resisting and fighting the Roman Empire... All the green is Roman Empire territory.
People have lived there since prehistory - who claimed to own the territories has shifted more than once. But claiming the land is not the same as living and working the lands. The history of human oppressions.
The capital of EU is brussels because the big country (France and germany) were ennemy since 1830 almost and that went way too far just before the first world war came out,
And france and germany want their capital to be the capital of the europe but to keep france and germany not in war they decided to make another capital not far away the capital of europe so the choice was obvious, belgium share border with Germany and France
that mount is a lion
Congo..rubber diamats ..uranium...etc
11:31 Belgium didn't so much join the EU's predecessor, as co-founded it.
5:31 This is entirely false. The reformation was an active development throughout the Low Countries. So a development of Belgium, the Netherlands and neighbouring areas. The reformation may have been weak in some areas (e.g. Luxembourg), but was very strong in other areas, including those in the south. A good example is the town of Valenciennes. Also the Westhoek of the County of Flanders initially had a lot of Calvinism during the reformation. That's even where the Great Iconoclasm (Beeldenstorm) started. The war defined the areas that would become/remain Protestant/Catholic. Antwerp was probably the most important Calvinist town around the start of the reformation. The counter-reformation ensured that it would regain its Catholic faith.
If you ever come to Belgium the thing to see are clearly the city's, Brugge, Ghent, Brussels, Antwerp and Mechelen, the most famous ones where you can find the majority of the things illustrated in the video. Belgium is not so great Nature wise tho.
Where you Flemish and Antwerps excel in structures, we in 'the' Limburg excel ik nature. The national park is huge and amazing. Many beautiful walking and cycling routes through lush greenery, the stone coal municipalities also have an enormous dense amount of shops, supermarkets and very busy roads that makes everyone coming from another provice drop its jaws not expecting such an urban area in 'the' Limburg to be more busy, urban and advanced than most other municipalities and smaller cities in Flanders (although not comparable to bigger cities). Terrils resort is the luxury edition of Center parcs with an amazing spa unseen anywhere. Maasmechelen is the most multicultural municipality in the country with an amazing high Italian population and some if the best Italian restaurants.