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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 ...
Modern France is the result of centuries of nation building and the acquisition and incorporation of a number of historical provinces into the French domain. The names of these provinces are still used to designate natural, historical and cultural regions, and many of them appear in modern région or département names.
Map of the provinces of France in 1789. They were abolished the following year. Under the Ancien Régime, the Kingdom of France was subdivided in multiple different ways (judicial, military, ecclesiastical, etc.) into several administrative units, until the National Constituent Assembly adopted a more uniform division into departments (départements) and districts in late 1789.
The Seventeen Provinces, is the name given to a number of counties and duchies in the Low Countries in the 15th and 16th century. Most of these were fiefs of either France or the Holy Roman Empire , although by the 15th century they had been united in a personal union and were only fiefs in name.
22 independent cities (17 Highly Urbanized Cities and 5 Independent Component Cities) Metro Manila, the National Capital Region (pambansang punong rehiyon) 16 Highly Urbanized Cities. Pateros, an independent municipality. Poland: Unitary 16 voivodeships (provinces) 314 land counties (powiat ziemski) 2,478 municipalities (gminy of 3 types)
Former historical province of Provence and County of Nice annexed by France in 1860. Rhône-Alpes: Rhône-Alpes: Arpitan: Rôno-Arpes Occitan: Ròse Aups: 82 Lyon: Created for Lyon from Dauphiné and Lyonnais provinces and Savoy: Upper Normandy: Haute-Normandie: Norman: Ĥâote-Normaundie Breton: Normandi-Uhel: 23 Rouen: Eastern half of former ...
Rank Region Population 2016 Area (km 2) Density; 1 Île-de-France 12,117,132 12,012 1,009 2 Mayotte 256,518 374 685 3 Réunion 852,924 2,504 340 4 Martinique 376,480 1,128
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