The early history of the so-called Low Countries—modern-day Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands—is as murky and difficult to navigate as its boggy marshlands. Nomads first roamed the area 150 ...more
Roman influence began to decline around AD 400 and vanished with an invasion by Germanic tribes, who by that time had unified to become collectively known as the Franks and the Saxons. Shortly after ...more
The French Burgundian Dynasty controlled the region following the decline of feudalism and the Holy Roman Empire in the Low Countries. Under French rule in the 1400s, Dutch provinces took small steps ...more
By 1795, Napoleon’s French forces had swept through the Netherlands and brought it under their control. Napoleon put his brother Louis in charge of the territory and renamed it the Batavian Republic ...more
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