The History of Belgium: A Small Country with a Giant Colonial Legacy — Fexingo History
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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 brutal African empire under King Leopold II—a personal colony that became a byword for atrocity in the Congo Free State (1885-1908). The show traces the arc from the Burgundian and Spanish Habsburg rule, through the Austrian Netherlands and the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, to the revolutionary birth of the nation. Lucas and Luna explore the linguistic fault lines that still divide the country, the industrial revolution that made it Europe's wo...
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