DBWI independent Southern Netherlands

LOL, creating a state out of French and Dutch speakers evenly matched, you want to create a bloodbath you mad man.
 
That is the weirdest team up I've ever seen. You have Wallonia the most Protestant part of France teaming up with Flanders the most Catholic part of the Netherlands teaming up to succeed from both countries? Why? The Dutch would rather conquer the Wallonians, and the French would rather Conquer the Flemish then spin off a country from integral territory? I can't think of any outside power that would benefit from putting a buffer state there.
 
"Belgium" Wtf is this name? I tried to look it up and it seems that one of the roman province that would currently be in southern netherland was called "Gallia Belgica", so they somehow took an obscure name for the region, then added -um after it? Is this dog latin? This doesn't make any sense.

EDIT: And i'm not even speaking about the language imbalance, Flanders, with its large dutch speaking cities like Antwerp or Brussel would completely crush the Smaller French Wallonia.

EDIT 2: Also it seems that it also has a bit of the german speaking rheinland? Seriously i don't think this country could be stable and democratic for more than a decade?
 
I can't such nation without Medieval POD. And why it has taken its name from ancient Celtic tribe? Such nation can't even avoid being swallowed by its neighbors.
 
Ohh I know what this is from. It's from a game they play on althistory.net It's called nations that should never exist. Basically they try to put countries together from various regions and predict how long they would last before depending into bloody civil war and how to go about it. Though sometimes they just post stable OTL countries. Seriously some dumbass thought Serbia would break up with fighting between 'Croats' and 'Bosniks' what ever the hell those are. Here's a gif of it.
 
I can see maybe a minor city-state forming there, but it would never be a significant country with, like, a functional army or overseas colonies of any significant size.
Also, the name of the Celto-Germanic tribes that lived near the area was Beligica, not "Belgium", which seems to be some sort of Latin-Dutch hybrid of a word. Sorry, but creating nation-states doesn't work that way.
 

Skallagrim

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Could this country not come into being if the Netherlands mostly fall into the German sphere, and then some sort of buffer is needed between that German sphere and France? I could see it working as a neutral state. A bit like a coastal Swiss state. If they make it heavily decentralised, like the swiss example, it could easily work. If they try to make it too unitary, it will soon split into two halves.
 
Guys, an independent southern Netherlands isn't THAT crazy. I mean, it had been part of the Burgundian, Austrian, and Spanish Empires for centuries, usually separate from the city-states and later United Provinces to the north.

It was only the radical Dutch Revolution from 1789-1804 when the Southern Netherlands became an inseparable part of the Netherlands. Further, only by the 1870s were they completely indistinguishable from say, Holland or Friesland; that was mainly a result of compulsory assimilation into Dutch language and culture. Otherwise, "Belgium", as silly as it might sound was a conceivable nation.

Could this country not come into being if the Netherlands mostly fall into the German sphere, and then some sort of buffer is needed between that German sphere and France? I could see it working as a neutral state. A bit like a coastal Swiss state. If they make it heavily decentralised, like the swiss example, it could easily work. If they try to make it too unitary, it will soon split into two halves.
Very plausible. Plus, if the Swiss today adulate the Ancient Romans and call themselves the "Helvetic Republic" after the ancient Helvetii, I don't see why some country couldn't revive say "Belgian" identity after the Belgae.
 
Nah, this could only happen if France and NL decide to do some kind of experiment to create a non-country. The parameters set in this scenario hint at this, there's no way "Belgium" survives without Dutch AND French life support!
 
I remember reading that around 1757 and 1758 that there were plans made by Maria Theresa of Austria and Louis XV to put the Duke of Parma and his wife, the daughter of Louis XV, on the throne of the southern Netherlands which was basically the Austrian Netherlands. It would be garrisoned by French troops. The plans were discontinued around 1760.
 
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