Why Is A Part Of Belgium Called Luxembourg?

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[NameExplain]

Anyone watching from either of these Luxembourgs?

[Quintinohthree]

In Luxembourg (the province) you'll find many signs towards Luxembourg (the country) naming it "Grand Duché" because it's apparently the easiest way to distinguish it.

[BrickmotionYT]

I bet if Luxembourg was located in the Balkans, there would have been a decade long naming dispute with Belgium, ending in Luxembourg having to rename to "East Luxembourg", only so that Germany would then start a dispute with Luxembourg on their own, accusing them of stealing their language and history or something like that... 😛

[masdenka]

There are also 2 provinces of Limbourg, one in Belgium and an other in the Netherlands, and the town of Limbourg, from which the provinces take their name, is not in either province but in Liège.

[tisanedeverveine]

Greetings from Belgian Luxembourg. Just a reminder that Wallonia wasn't originally French speaking, there were (and still are, though scarcely) different Romance and Germanic languages in this region, and Luxembourgish was/is one of them.
So actually Belgian Luxembourg is a mosaic of both Romance and Germanic cultures. In the South of the province people actually spoke the same language as in the Grand Duchy. My grand-mother for example speaks Luxembourgish and has lived in Belgium her entire life.
Belgium decided to keep Belgian Luxembourg for strategic purposes more than cultural similarities or anything else.

For more information on local languages in Belgium and Europe, go have a look at the "Langues régionales minoritaires" or "Regional minoritary languages" page of the European Union, also on wikipedia.

[baystated]

1:48 we missed out in having a LUX that looked like a dark forest creature that would give you nightmares.

[AllieThePrettyGator]

Back then Luxemburg used to be little bigger

[gabrielortiz]

I recently went to Belgium and looking at maps i saw that the region of Belgium named Luxembourg is bigger than the actual country named the same. I found that funny. If u posted this video a few weeks earlier i would have been afraid that u read my mind.

[roelantverhoeven]

similar thing happened to the similarly named Limburg, historically part of the prince-bishopric of Liege, the people there speak a very distinct Dutch dialect, that sounds rather german (they say ich for example) they felt more for the German configuration, but ended up being split into a Belgian and a Dutch province... the belgian one is also larger here, but the dutch one has twice the population and the large city of Maastricht. these two provinces have a great identity pride and work together closely, especially on tourism...

[tommysmith]

How fortuitous this video came up in my recommendations. I recently went on holiday to Germany by car. Our route took us from Calais, Belgium, Luxembourg and finally Germany. As there are no border controls any longer in Europe, it can sometimes be difficult to know if you have crossed a border. As we were driving through south west Belgium, signs were indicating directions to Luxembourg. And at a certain point, we went past a sign saying "Luxembourg". Now, I thought it was too soon to have crossed the border but the sign was clear enough. Then about 20 minutes later (maybe less) we passed another sign saying "Luxembourg". This one looked a bit more official. So, as it happens, we crossed into Luxembourg twice! Once I got to my destination in Germany, I checked out google and realised that there is a Belgium area called Luxembourg which, as you would expect, borders Luxembourg the country. It was a little confusing at the time.

[christopherbentley]

I have a Mair Benelux road map from the early Seventies where the Belgian region of Luxembourg stands out next to the country of Luxembourg. On the basis that there are no fewer than three precedents in Belgium (Antwerpen, Liège and Namur) calling that region Arlon would make eminent sense as a way around that confusion. However, we wouldn't have had this entertaining video had that been the case!

[remytasiaux]

A common misconception is to think that the province of Luxembourg was annexed by Belgium, while in reality, it's more the grand duchy of Luxembourg which was taken from Belgium. The duchy of Luxembourg have been an integral part of the southern netherlands (the ancestror of Belgium) since the 15th century. And during the belgian revolution in 1830, the luxembourgish fought the dutch alongsides the other belgians. After that, the whole Luxembourg was de facto ruled as a part of Belgium until 1839, when the dutch and the prussians took the curent grand duchy as a puppet state because the fortress of Luxembourg was too strategically important.

[Jalmaan]

In Liège there's a town called Limbourg which is the same name as the province next to Liège in the Netherlands.

[jensschroder]

Let's share the pizza. We have Luxembourg here, who wants a piece?
A piece for France, a piece for Germany, a piece for Belgium.
And what do we do with the rest? Oh let's call it the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

[andrewrobinson]

1:49 O.G. Luxembourg had to change shape because it looked like a MONSTER 😮.

[bobbygoestoabyss]

As someone who grew up in the gdr, little 5 year old me thought, Rosa Luxemburg came from Luxembourg, where all people have the surename Luxemburg. 😅

[wolsch]

Well, we can be happy that the Luxembourgers are not reclaiming their former territories on the Moselle and in the Eifel in what is now the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. People there also speak pretty much the same dialect as in Luxembourg, but with fewer French loanwords. In Rhineland-Palatinate, however, this dialect is called Moselle Franconian.

[Kexkrummel]

I live in a small municipality in Luxembourg (the luxembourgish one) with 8 small villages. There was one short period in time, where these 8 villages, in the same municipality nowadays, were split between 4 different countries. These countries were Prussia, France, Habsbourg Austria and the Netherlands if I remember that correctly.

[benjaminprietop]

Great video! It does make me wonder if there's any pan-Luxembourgish movement that to recover those lost parts, kinda like in Hungary

[SkyHighSkylar]

Drinking game: Take a shot every time he says Luxembourg