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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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