A small country with no obvious start or finish Except for the
North Sea, Belgium has no natural or even realistic boundaries.
Logically, the estuary of the river Scheldt should be the
boundary in the north, but both banks are Dutch. The other
borders are simply lines on a map with no concern given to any
physical characteristics. Like colonial territories, the major
European players imposed Belgium's frontiers long before Belgium
became an independent state. Nevertheless, the Low Countries as
a territory apart has actually existed in an elastic form from
pre-history. The Low Countries as they are referred to here
include the territories of Benelux today and sometimes a bit of
Germany to the east and France to the south - at the same time -
divided into independent provinces and principalities. The first
Belgians? The Omalians Traces of man in Belgium since predawn
history exists, but the earliest Neolithic group known are the
Omalians, which were found only on the exceptionally fertile
Hesbaye plateau near L