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The Accidental Nation: How Belgium Was Born
In this pilot episode, Lucas and Luna begin at the Brussels Grand Place in 1830, where a riot at an opera sparked Belgium's revolution against the Netherlands. They trace how this tiny buffer state emerged from the Congress of Vienna, became Europe's most industrialized nation after Britain, and built a colonial empire in the Congo under King Leopold II. Lucas explains the linguistic divide between Flemish and French, the role of the Catholic Church, and the strange fact that Belgium's first king, Leopold I, was an uncle of Queen Victoria. They touch on the atrocities in the…
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