Unfortunate that they didn't explain how exactly Belgium annexed most of the Luxemburg. I looked it up on wikipedia and the gist of it appears to be: Belgium claimed all of it, but the dutch king...
Unfortunate that they didn't explain how exactly Belgium annexed most of the Luxemburg. I looked it up on wikipedia and the gist of it appears to be: Belgium claimed all of it, but the dutch king was grand duke of luxemburg at the time and disagreed, since he wanted to retain control of the city of Luxemburg. Eventually they split it along language lines, giving the french speaking portion to Belgium and eventually making the germanic speaking portion (including the city) independent. A single luxemburgish speaking municipality, Arlon, was incorporated into Belgium for reasons still unclear to me. They speak french now.
Unfortunate that they didn't explain how exactly Belgium annexed most of the Luxemburg. I looked it up on wikipedia and the gist of it appears to be: Belgium claimed all of it, but the dutch king was grand duke of luxemburg at the time and disagreed, since he wanted to retain control of the city of Luxemburg. Eventually they split it along language lines, giving the french speaking portion to Belgium and eventually making the germanic speaking portion (including the city) independent. A single luxemburgish speaking municipality, Arlon, was incorporated into Belgium for reasons still unclear to me. They speak french now.