Origins of The Greater Dutch Movement
The Greater Dutch movement emerged at the end of the 19th century. In Belgium, the Dutch citizens were increasingly angry about the privileged position of French, and the corresponding subordination of the Dutch, in government and in public life. The fear of a Flemish desire to return to the Kingdom of the Netherlands was the main reason that the Belgian government restored Dutch as the language of education and administration (but not of the university and the military) in Flanders. Nationalists from both Flanders and Netherlands created the Dutch General Union in 1895.
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