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    Warum liegen alle belgischen Buchten in der Nähe einer Großstadt?


    Ich hatte gerade eine Frage dazu!

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    5. FlamingoMedic89 on

      I assuuuuummeeee…. god, I studied history, I should know this. But I failed. I will come back when I remember.

    6. RpT_KraZe on

      Iirc, the border between Belgium and Netherlands is mostly drawn as it is due to it being the front lines when the Cease Fire was signed during the Belgian War for Independence.

    8. mrprezzv on

      It could be coincidence due to the closest cities to the south being part of Belgium instead of The Netherlands (e.g. if Zundert and Baarle-Nassau were also part of Belgium the borden would be more straight).

      The reason as to why all these distances to the closest Belgium cities are roughly the same could be due to the Romans as the distance is roughly 22km. This for example is also the case between Maastricht-Heerlen-Aachen which are all roughly 22km apart due to Roman rules for maximum distance between cities.

    9. Nordalin on

      You’re basically looking at the 1648 front lines between the Dutch and Spanish, when the peace treaty was signed and independence was achieved.

      I know way too little to explain any of those enclaves in detail, but I assume the Dutch simply held the villages in the enclaves.

    10. fucking_4_virginity on

      I don’t know if it is related but a while back i read that the borders of Maastricht were partly determined by the range of canons, because that would be where the enemy couldn’t advance. I wonder if something similar happened here.

    11. goodsemaritan_ on

      If i remmeber correctly thr dutch belgium border are basically the the battlefield borded of the war of independance. So then the you can see that those things are basically advaned to the city’s

    12. Egodactylus on

      Scrolled by and thought this was Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire for a second 😂

    13. duimpietomax on

      Just a hunch: The border between The Netherlands and Belgium is actually the the result of the Eighty Years with Habsburg Spain which controlled Belgium in 1648. That´s what it looked like when the Peace of Münster was signed ending the war. I think the border runs like that probably because you had Spanish armies aimed at those cities. But I´m no expert.

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