Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Matsayin dabarun Ardennes ya sanya shi filin yaƙi ga ikon Turai tsawon ƙarni. Yawancin Ardennes sun kasance wani ɓangare na Duchy (tun 1815, Grand Duchy) na Luxembourg, memba na Roman Empire mai tsarki, wanda ya canza hannun sau da yawa tsakanin manyan daular Turai. A cikin 1793 Faransa ta juyin juya hali ta haɗu da duk yankin, tare da duk sauran yankuna yamma da kogin Rhine. A cikin 1815, taron Vienna, wanda ya shafi sakamakon siyasa na Yaƙe-yaƙe na Napoleon, ya dawo da yanayin yanayin da ya gabata, tare da yawancin Ardennes sun zama wani ɓangare na Grand Duchy na Luxembourg. Bayan juyin juya halin 1830
, wanda ya haifar da kafa Masarautar Belgium, makomar siyasa ta Ardennes ta zama batun rikici tsakanin Belgium, Luxembourg, da Netherlands, gami da manyan ƙasashen zamani na Faransa, Prussia, da Burtaniya. A sakamakon haka, a cikin 1839, Grand Duchy na Luxembourg ya ba da kashi 63% na yammacin yankin sa (wanda kuma shine babban ɓangaren Ardennes) ga sabuwar masarautar Belgium, wanda yanzu shine lardin Luxembourg.