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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 408688, member: 2844"]That would be Hainault. These are all Belgian provinces. Lega could be Légia, the name of a brook that flows into the river Meuse in the city of Liège. It was at one time thought the city was called after the brook, so Legia could be used for Liège. Liège is also the name of the province of which Liège is the capital.</p><p>The central lion is the ancient Brabant lion, which became the symbol of the Belgian kings. It still is to this day.</p><p><br /></p><p>Brabant is split between the Netherlands and Belgium (my Brabant heart weeps over this<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie22" alt=":bigtears:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />), Luxembourg is split between Luxembourg and Belgium.</p><p>The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg were one country at one time, the way it was divided had to do with the politics of the time, not with the cultural identity.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Always an issue in Belgium, unification. They are still together.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't think this watch case has anything to do with WWI, but rather with the Belgian coherence, and Walloon dominance under the guise of 'unity'.</p><p>The Walloons, the French-speaking Belgians, were dominant for a very long time. French was the official language, even though the majority of the population spoke Flemish (Dutch). The Flemish (including other Dutch-speaking Belgians), wanted equal rights, and many wanted independence. That is still the case.</p><p>The independence movement became very strong ca 1870, and reached its peak just after WWI.</p><p>All this time the Walloons were desperately trying to hold on to their power. The Flemish language was only given (relative) equal rights in 1932.</p><p><br /></p><p>The verdigris could be a result of the relatively low silver fineness.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 408688, member: 2844"]That would be Hainault. These are all Belgian provinces. Lega could be Légia, the name of a brook that flows into the river Meuse in the city of Liège. It was at one time thought the city was called after the brook, so Legia could be used for Liège. Liège is also the name of the province of which Liège is the capital. The central lion is the ancient Brabant lion, which became the symbol of the Belgian kings. It still is to this day. Brabant is split between the Netherlands and Belgium (my Brabant heart weeps over this:bigtears:), Luxembourg is split between Luxembourg and Belgium. The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg were one country at one time, the way it was divided had to do with the politics of the time, not with the cultural identity.:( Always an issue in Belgium, unification. They are still together. I don't think this watch case has anything to do with WWI, but rather with the Belgian coherence, and Walloon dominance under the guise of 'unity'. The Walloons, the French-speaking Belgians, were dominant for a very long time. French was the official language, even though the majority of the population spoke Flemish (Dutch). The Flemish (including other Dutch-speaking Belgians), wanted equal rights, and many wanted independence. That is still the case. The independence movement became very strong ca 1870, and reached its peak just after WWI. All this time the Walloons were desperately trying to hold on to their power. The Flemish language was only given (relative) equal rights in 1932. The verdigris could be a result of the relatively low silver fineness.[/QUOTE]
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