Why was Belgium and Switzerland not split?

That's very easy, 1384 is the official founding year of the Burgundian Empire you talk about.
Yeah, but a large part of Belgium still wasn't part of it, including Luxemburg, Liege, Limburg, Namur, Walloon Brabant, Flemish Brabant and Antwerp. Actually it was merely Flanders and Hainaut (and Holland and Zeeland). I would place the union the earliest around the time of Philip the good, but even than you lack the bishopric of Liege. I would say that the earliest foundation of Belgium lies in 1684 when it was split from the Netherlands, but even then it still lacked its own identity.
 
Yeah, but a large part of Belgium still wasn't part of it, including Luxemburg, Liege, Limburg, Namur, Walloon Brabant, Flemish Brabant and Antwerp. Actually it was merely Flanders and Hainaut (and Holland and Zeeland). I would place the union the earliest around the time of Philip the good, but even than you lack the bishopric of Liege. I would say that the earliest foundation of Belgium lies in 1684 when it was split from the Netherlands, but even then it still lacked its own identity.

That's true, but the rest would be added over the next 80 years and the Prince-Bishopric of Liège was under Burgundian control too. And since they didn't really have a common identity, which begun forming after 1684 (which is also the date I use as founding date of Belgium) only a more or less common culture existed. (Which was shared with the Northern-Netherlands)
And that's why I said: political union that, let's use a more correct date, was finished in 1467 with the Duke of Burgundy appointing the Prince-Bishop of Liège (and also of Utrecht).
 
That's true, but the rest would be added over the next 80 years and the Prince-Bishopric of Liège was under Burgundian control too. And since they didn't really have a common identity, which begun forming after 1684 (which is also the date I use as founding date of Belgium) only a more or less common culture existed. (Which was shared with the Northern-Netherlands)
And that's why I said: political union that, let's use a more correct date, was finished in 1467 with the Duke of Burgundy appointing the Prince-Bishop of Liège (and also of Utrecht).

Just to nitpick, but it's 1648 the peace of Westphalia (Münster) not 1684.
I agree, that the founding date of Belgium and the Netherlands was in 1467; which started to diverge after the Dutch Revolt (1568-1648).
 
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