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  2. Seventeen Provinces - Wikipedia

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    The Seventeen Provinces arose from the Burgundian Netherlands, a number of fiefs held by the House of Valois-Burgundy and inherited by the House of Habsburg in 1482, and held by Habsburg Spain from 1556. Starting in 1512, the Provinces formed the major part of the Burgundian Circle. In 1581, the Seven United Provinces seceded to form the Dutch ...

  3. Dutch Republic - Wikipedia

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    The United Provinces of the Netherlands, commonly referred to in historiography as the Dutch Republic, was a confederation that existed from 1579 until the Batavian Revolution in 1795. It was a predecessor state of the present-day Netherlands and the first independent Dutch nation state .

  4. List of stadtholders in the Low Countries - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of stadtholders (Dutch: stadhouders, German: Statthalter) or governors (French: gouverneurs) in the Low Countries, or historical Netherlands region.This includes all the territories in the Low Countries that were acquired by the House of Habsburg in the 15th and 16th century and were politically united as the Habsburg Netherlands, then known as the "Seventeen Provinces".

  5. Category:1580s in the Habsburg Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    1580 in the Habsburg Netherlands (4 P) ... Pages in category "1580s in the Habsburg Netherlands" ... Seventeen Provinces; V.

  6. Provinces of the Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    The province of Utrecht is the smallest with a total area of 1,560 km 2 (602 sq mi), while Flevoland is the smallest by land area at 1,410 km 2 (544 sq mi). In total about 10,000 people were employed by the provincial administrations in 2018. [2] The provinces of the Netherlands are joined in the Association of Provinces of the Netherlands (IPO

  7. Habsburg Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    His Seventeen Provinces were re-organised in the Burgundian treaty of 1548, whereby the Imperial estates represented in the Imperial Diet at Augsburg acknowledged a certain autonomy of the Netherlands. It was followed by the Emperor's Pragmatic Sanction of 1549, which established the Seventeen Provinces as an entity held by a single prince.

  8. United Kingdom of the Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    Before the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802), the Low Countries was a patchwork of different polities created by the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648). The Dutch Republic in the north was independent; the Southern Netherlands was split between the Austrian Netherlands and the Prince-Bishopric of Liège [2] - the former being part of Habsburg monarchy, while both were part of the Holy Roman ...

  9. Administrative divisions of the Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    The 21 water boards in The Netherlands in 2019. Typically, a water board's territory is made up of one or more polders or watersheds. The territory of a water board generally covers several municipalities and may even include areas in two or more provinces. As of 2021, there are 21 water boards in The Netherlands. [6]