Perché il Belgio non possiede questa terra?

Because it’s a great zone to put France’s nuclear power plant

>Why does Belgium not own this land?

I have the feeling we are going to see a lot of these posts this week 😅

Treaties of Nijmegen

because Louis XIV wanted more of the very important river there?

In 1814, after Napoleon exile to Elba, France was actually supposed to have more territory around that part initially, like Philippeville for example. [See this map, with the red line being the frontier in 1814)](https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_map_of_the_Eastern_boundary_of_France_to_illustrate_Article_III_in_The_First_Peace_of_Paris_30th_May_1814.jpg#mw-jump-to-license). Like you can see with the blue line on the same map, before the Revolution, France already had Givet, but also other exclaves (like Philippeville) inside what was then part of Liege.

When Napoleon came back, and lost once again, the territory that was around the exclaves and that was given to France, was taken back, like the enclves themselves. Givet and the territory around it weren’t in exclave to begin with so stayed with France.

We could trade it for the rest of Wallonia

It’s infested with Fr*nch.