Belgium
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History
The founding of Belgium
The earliest memories of the region go back to february 4 2003, when the Flemmisch magazine HUMO published a small article about Nationstates. February 4 2003 is therefore considered as the founding date of the region. In these early days, some nations arrived and they chose a delegate, Paq, who stayed on the delegate seat for half a year.
The 'pre-history' of Belgium
We can describe the first half year of the region as 'Pre-history', since there are no documents stored from that period. Simply because we had no forum. We were a region between 40 and 50 nations, with only informal contacts. Paq was the undiscussed delegate during this period. The Belgian nations were busy with some general chat on the civil headquarters with sometimes a little bit RP. Contacts between other regions were almost unexistent. Some important events happened during this period:
Vlaanderen: the first split
One moment in the very early history of the region, some nations created the region Vlaanderen. This resulted in a non-violent split. both regions lived peacefully next to eachother and there were some good contacts between members of the regions.
Onafhankelijk Vlaanderen: The second split
Short after founders were introduced in the NS-world, a nation called TVOT created the region Onafhankelijk Vlaanderen (Independent Flanders in english). TVOT started aggressive recruitement campaigns in Belgium and Vlaanderen. That caused the troubled relations between Belgium and Vlaanderen versus Onafhankelijk Vlaanderen. Later, when the Dutch NS-regions came more and more in contact with eachother, Onafhankelijk Vlaanderen became a very isolated region. Eventually it died in mid 2004.
Times of troubles
End august 2003, our old delegate, Paq went on vacation. And then the troubles began.
(i will finish this later, have to go now...)
