Talk:Flemish National Quidditch team/@comment-94.224.88.84-20150607202040

I don't get why Flanders not being a part of a country is an issue?

As a region, Flanders is much older than Belgium and even older than the Netherlands. Before 1367 it was devided in areas ruled by barons and dukes. All the little pieces of land of those barons and dukes was called 'the county of Flanders' and was controlled by the French Kingdom and the French Kingdom was controlled by the Holy Roman Empire. In 1384 the County of Flanders and the Duchy of Brabant became a part of the Burgundian Netherlands for a while but then got conquered it in 1549.

So it maybe wasn't a country and it still isn't a country today. As a region it has always existed and it actually has never rightfully belonged to any of the countries it was once part of. Even today a lot of Flemish people today identify more as a Flemish person than a Belgian. I can easily imagine that in the magical wizarding world Flanders being a country on its own with its own govenrment. Maybe wizard governments don't have the same country borders as muggle governments? Today in muggle Flanders, the region has its own parlaiment and own laws and own government besides the laws and parliament and government of Belgium. (Yes it's really complicated).

So I'm just saying that it can be totally possible that Flanders had/has a National Quidditch team.