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Low Countries

Region of Europe that consists of Belgium, the Netherlands, and the duchy of Luxembourg. The name is more of a political and historic term than a strictly geographical concept. One of the wealthiest ares of medieval and modern Europe, it has also been a chronic theatre of war.

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The united provinces of the Low Countries, in their government, excel; for where there is an equality, the consultations are more indifferent, and the payments and tributes, more cheerful.

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Some of them, indeed, by their services in the Low Countries and on other fields of European warfare, had fairly won their title to assume the name and pomp of soldiership.

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They never overtook the chimerical friend, yet Andrea frequently inquired of people on foot whom he passed and at the inns which were not yet closed, for a green cabriolet and bay horse; and as there are a great many cabriolets to be seen on the road to the Low Countries, and as nine-tenths of them are green, the inquiries increased at every step.

The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context

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