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  • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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    2 years ago

    the netherlands were never a colony. unless you count the dutch colonizing the innocent alluvial marshes :theory-gary:

      • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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        2 years ago

        feudal overlordship. no-one was particularly bothered until the calvinists started stirring shit

        • CliffordBigRedDog [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Habsburg domination of the low countries was justified

          i will die on this hill smh 😤

          • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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            2 years ago

            it was entirely legal according to the succession laws of their [low countries'] country, and when the calvinists started the spanish acted fully within their rights under the Peace of Augsburg :sicko-luna: