Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Is Brexit threatening peace in Northern Ireland? | DW News" video.
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@asanulsterman1025 Comparing that conflict between Belgium and the Netherlands with Northern Ireland isn't exactly painting your history creditential in the best light either.
Belgium separated from the Netherlands on religious grounds.
After the Frankish empire split up the areas between what's today France and what's today Germany where split up between their respective ancestral states and have been subject to many conflicts as a result of being a border area for so long.
Neither the Netherlands nor Belgium was unified after Lotharingia was split up between the two, just like the Holy Roman Empire was later it was a patchwork of different states till the Burgundians United them all under a single state, a duchy within the HRE (for as long as they lasted).
That's where the twos history originates.
The reason they split up as identities is that when the last Burgundian duke died the parts of his territory that was a part of the HRE came under Habsburg control (while the parts that wasn't was inherited by the French king).
Anyway the Habsburgs wheren't exactly known for religious tolerance, being Catholics they persecuted protestants, leading to the Netherlands revolting, while catholic Belgium, Luxembourg etc stayed loyal to the Habsburgs in the Spanish Netherlands.
In other words, the Flemish in Belgium where a part of Belgium because they where Catholics.
Belgium has been under the French, Spanish and Netherlands multiple times, and was a part of the United Kingdoms of the Netherlands and the Grand Dutchy of Luxemburg before the current state was formed, both nations created in the wake of the Napoleonic wars.
Then the Belgians rebelled in the 1830.
Forming todays Belgium in 1831...
Belgium is split from the Netherlands along mainly religious lines.
Belgium is divided internally mainly along linguistic lines...
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