Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin 1815<unk>1940 ya kasance mai tsaka tsaki kuma ya taka rawar gani a cikin diflomasiyyar duniya, ban da ƙoƙarin da aka yi na cin nasara don sarrafa lardunan Kudancin lardunan da suka zama Belgium kafin su daina a 1839.
An mamaye shi kuma Jamus ta zalunce shi a cikin 1940-1945, tare da yunwa da kashe yahudawa manyan manufofin Nazi.