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Prese nan ant Fwans, Almay ak Netherlands yo, Bèljik okipe yon plas ki te souvan deside balans Ewopeyen an nan pouvwa. Li te isit la ke Women yo pataje yon fwontyè enpòtan ak branch fanmi jèrmen nan nò a; isit la ke Habsburgs yo Panyòl finalman te rankontre matche ak yo nan rebèl yo Pwotestan nan Netherlands yo; isit la ke Napoleon te finalman bat nan batay la nan Waterloo; ak - pi famezman - isit la, tou, ki Britanik yo ak Bèljik slugged li soti ak Almay yo nan Dezyèm Gè I. Vreman vre pouvwa anpil te gen yon enterè nan rejyon sa a ke li te sèlman nan 1830 ki Bèljik te vin tounen yon apa a, eta endepandan.
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Squeezed in between France, Germany and the Netherlands, Belgium occupies a spot that has often decided the European balance of power. It was here that the Romans shared an important border with the Germanic tribes to the north; here that the Spanish Habsburgs finally met their match in the Protestant rebels of the Netherlands; here that Napoleon was finally defeated at the Battle of Waterloo; and – most famously – here, too, that the British and Belgians slugged it out with the Germans in World War I. Indeed so many powers have had an interest in this region that it was only in 1830 that Belgium became a separate, independent state.