Didn’t you know that New Yorkers aren’t real New Yorkers, they don’t have a culture. They are just Belgians. Felt cute, might invade later.
There are actually some etymologic theory around the fact that the name Wall Street is linked to the first governor of Manhattan, Pierre Minuit, of walloon ascendency.
Waal straat becoming wall street.
Before being New York, it was new Amsterdam, hence Dutch being used there.
I read once that some migrants came from Avesnes-sur-Helpe that was then in Hainaut, but now is in North of France.
PARS
VA-
NIA
I remember hearing that Manhattan belonged to Waloons and not the Dutch.
I can believe that around that time Waloons protestant would have moved to America via the Netherlands and they mixed in with the Dutch.
But it’s still unclear to me.
I once read that it were people of Namen/Namur who first started to build settlements around the area what now is NYC. The Dutch just made it way bigger and stole the credit, as usual.
The map is from about 1685. So Novi Belgii was a name the Dutch were using. So “The Low country” was still in Dutch control.
Visscher, Nicolaes. Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae: nec non partis Virginiae tabula multis in locis emendata. [Amsterdam?, 1685] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/97683561/.
We the people of Belgium officially demand the rightfully Belgian lands of the greater New York area comply or face our waffels
Yeah but belgium was a part of the netherlands at that time so it was called new amsterdam
if we attack the US would that trigger NATO article 5?
The seal of Brooklyn says ‘eendracht maakt macht’ as well
Yes… And? It’s got nothing to do with Belgium whatsoever.
It was also called New Amsterdam at some point when the Dutch had it
Deus vult!
Dadadada it’s the motherfucking B E L G. Dadadadada
Nova Belgica would be the Latin form of New Netherlands prior to Belgian independence I believe.
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The natural borders of Belgium. Time to found a revanchist political party
Belgica meaning the low lands or low countries, not Belgium
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_of_the_Low_Countries
Or as it’s more commonly referred to, “[New Netherland](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Netherland)”
Didn’t you know that New Yorkers aren’t real New Yorkers, they don’t have a culture. They are just Belgians. Felt cute, might invade later.
There are actually some etymologic theory around the fact that the name Wall Street is linked to the first governor of Manhattan, Pierre Minuit, of walloon ascendency.
Waal straat becoming wall street.
Before being New York, it was new Amsterdam, hence Dutch being used there.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street
There is also a place in NJ called Hoboken (As in Hoboken in Antwerp)
It’s latin for Low Countries, the land was colonized by the Dutch West India Company.
Hey OP, check out the Leo Belgicus from 1617! Apparently I can’t add images here [Leo Belgicus](https://inter-antiquariaat.nl/antiek/zeldzame-kaarten/kaarten-nederland/leo-belgicus-pieter-van-den-keere-1617/)
Looks more like Quebec region
I read once that some migrants came from Avesnes-sur-Helpe that was then in Hainaut, but now is in North of France.
PARS
VA-
NIA
I remember hearing that Manhattan belonged to Waloons and not the Dutch.
I can believe that around that time Waloons protestant would have moved to America via the Netherlands and they mixed in with the Dutch.
But it’s still unclear to me.
I once read that it were people of Namen/Namur who first started to build settlements around the area what now is NYC. The Dutch just made it way bigger and stole the credit, as usual.
BOEIEND! GA DOOR! (not ironic, very interesting!)
And Nova Belgica gave its name to the Symphyotrichum novi-belgii (aka New York Aster): https://inaturalist.ca/taxa/169474-Symphyotrichum-novi-belgii
Oh that’s some pretty name <3
The map is from about 1685. So Novi Belgii was a name the Dutch were using. So “The Low country” was still in Dutch control.
Visscher, Nicolaes. Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae: nec non partis Virginiae tabula multis in locis emendata. [Amsterdam?, 1685] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/97683561/.
We the people of Belgium officially demand the rightfully Belgian lands of the greater New York area comply or face our waffels
Yeah but belgium was a part of the netherlands at that time so it was called new amsterdam
if we attack the US would that trigger NATO article 5?
The seal of Brooklyn says ‘eendracht maakt macht’ as well
Yes… And? It’s got nothing to do with Belgium whatsoever.
It was also called New Amsterdam at some point when the Dutch had it
Deus vult!
Dadadada it’s the motherfucking B E L G. Dadadadada
Nova Belgica would be the Latin form of New Netherlands prior to Belgian independence I believe.
New Amsterdam
…still is… We a world power now!