Alternate Names for Belgium

edgeworthy · May 29, 2019

International Combat Arbitration Area B?

The Grudge Keeper · May 30, 2019

West Poland

kasumigenx · May 30, 2019

Grand Duchy of Flanders

Alexander the Average · May 30, 2019

Greater Bruges.

kasumigenx · May 30, 2019

Why not Flanders and Hainault just like Bosnia and Herzegovina.

SavoyTruffle · May 30, 2019

kasumigenx said:
Why not Flanders and Hainault just like Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Because you're pissing off South Brabant and Liège?

Kellan Sullivan · May 30, 2019

The United States of Arras
The Remnant (i.e. those left when the Union of Utrecht broke away)
Poor Little Leftover
France's Wet Dream
Britain's Baby
No Man's Land

The Undead Martyr · May 31, 2019

Lower Lorraine, lower burgundy, north burgundy, maybe Saxony or Celt-land or something?

Belgium was named after a Roman province. European ountries which didn't get those names tended to be named after the tribes that conquered and settled the place so it could end up as Poland/Polonia or Lonbardy or Gotland or Frankland/France whatnot or you want to get crazy with Migration Era divergences.

pompejus · May 31, 2019

Kellan Sullivan said:
The United States of Arras
The Remnant (i.e. those left when the Union of Utrecht broke away)

The problem with that name is that several parts of Belgium actualy were part of the Union of Utrecht, at least a large part of Flanders and Brabant were. And of course the bishopric of Liege never was part of the Spanish Netherlands.

Also it is weird to call a country after a city that lies in another country.

Kellan Sullivan · May 31, 2019

pompejus said:
The problem with that name is that several parts of Belgium actualy were part of the Union of Utrecht, at least a large part of Flanders and Brabant were. And of course the bishopric of Liege never was part of the Spanish Netherlands.

Also it is weird to call a country after a city that lies in another country.

My bad. Why did they call it the Union of Arras then? I mean, Utrecht is still in the Netherlands, but if Arras was in (I'm assuming France ATM), styling themselves that makes as much sense as naming the country that, surely.

pompejus · May 31, 2019

Kellan Sullivan said:
My bad. Why did they call it the Union of Arras then? I mean, Utrecht is still in the Netherlands, but if Arras was in (I'm assuming France ATM), styling themselves that makes as much sense as naming the country that, surely.

It used to be part of the Netherlands, but France conquered Arras after the Union of Arras (and before Belgium was founded). I think somewhere in the 17th century, not sure of the exact date.

Kellan Sullivan · May 31, 2019

pompejus said:
It used to be part of the Netherlands, but France conquered Arras after the Union of Arras (and before Belgium was founded). I think somewhere in the 17th century, not sure of the exact date.

Fair enough.

My apologies if this has been mentioned already, but wouldn't it depend on just "when/how" this state of "Belgium" forms? Since I can't imagine Karl Theodor's resurrection of the "kingdom of Burgundy" having the same name as a "Belgic" state that's formed from Albert-Isabella having kids or Felipe of Spain (OTL duke of Parma) being named as overlord of the Netherlands.