If one wants to find an not very large area of Europe, perhaps the planet, with a dense concentration of battlefield above average (a record?) I ask if Belgium is a good candidate, known from ´battle of Waterloo, Napoleons final defeat, trenches of ww1, and for Hitlers attack on France as well as for his final last stroke. Or is there better candidates?
Battlefield Belgium?
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True, but I do suppose it has been relatively stabilized in after it came under Islamic rule.
Belgium however has been a battleground from about 50bc to 1945.
I think of the Levant as a much bigger area than Belgium, though the later is more densely populated.
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For good reason, Belgium was known as the "cockpit of Europe" for a time, no?
Another European candidate would be, according to John Keegan, the Adrianople/Edirne area of the Balkans - a dozen or more battles there over the ages.
(I think I remember reading this in his A History of Warfare - which I no longer have.
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Another European candidate would be, according to John Keegan, the Adrianople/Edirne area of the Balkans - a dozen or more battles there over the ages.
(I think I remember reading this in his A History of Warfare - which I no longer have.
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