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Lechasseur
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« on: April 24, 2019, 06:37:09 AM »

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« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2019, 08:13:57 AM »

If Belgium were to be partitioned, one of the options for the German-speaking parts would be to merge with Luxembourg.

The thing is though, the German-speaking part of the country doesn't share a border with Luxembourg, all the areas on the Belgian side of the Belgium-Luxembourg border are French speaking (long story short, Luxembourg lost most of its territory to Belgium in 1839: the Luxembourgish (Franconian German dialect) speaking parts of Luxembourg stayed part of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, while the Walloon (Langue d'Oil/French dialect) speaking parts became the Province of Luxembourg in Belgium. The Eupen-Saint Vith cantons (the German speaking part of Belgium) are in Liège province along the border with Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany).
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Lechasseur
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« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2019, 10:17:36 AM »

Is Luxemburg the only sovereign Grand dukedom left in the world?

Yes

In Europe; Liechtenstein, Monaco and Andorra are principalities; I'm not sure what exactly the Vatican is but it's an elective clerical monarchy (those used to be common in the Holy Roman Empire, they were called Prince-Bishoprics, but I'm not sure what the Vatican in particular would be called); Luxembourg is a Grand DUCHY (not dukedom), but other than that all the other surviving monarchies in Europe are Kingdoms (those would be the UK, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Sweden).
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« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2019, 12:13:31 PM »


Luxembourg is a genuine country with real history, as opposed to artificial creations like Liechtenstein or Monaco. Those are the ones that should be abolish.

Given how much damage it does to the rest of the world

How so?
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Lechasseur
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« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2019, 05:15:31 PM »

He was actually a former Grand Duke, as his son Henri has ruled the country since 2000.

Exactly, and Henri had ruled as regent for the two years before his father formally abdicated.
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