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Similarly, I find it weird that there is no direct route from Lille/Tournai to Rotterdam through Belgium. There is a huge detour over Maastricht. Maybe this pa
by rubenbe 4y ago
Similarly, I find it weird that there is no direct route from Lille/Tournai to Rotterdam through Belgium. There is a huge detour over Maastricht.
Maybe this part of Belgium was not sufficiently under Roman control and too unsafe to travel through.
- Bayart 4y agoAs far as I can recall, this part of the Lower Countries was still mostly swamps.
- tremon 4y agoThere were still plenty of Roman settlements to the north of Brussels, so it's a bit curious that Belgica itself seems hardly populated. Maybe because of that tiny town that kept on resisting Roman rule?