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Brussels was briefly the capital of the Netherlands and the low countries in the 16th and 19th centuries. Brussels was the capital of the Seventeen Provinces (1549–1581).
Name Municipality Coordinates Aalst: Buren: Aalst: Zaltbommel: Aalten: Aalten: Aam: Overbetuwe: Achter de Vree: Oldebroek: Achterdrempt: Bronckhorst: Achterhoek: Nijkerk
The countries that comprise the region called the Low Countries (Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg) all have comparatively the same toponymy.Place names with Neder, Nieder, Nedre, Nether, Lage(r) or Low(er) (in Germanic languages) and Bas or Inferior (in Romance languages) are in use in low-lying places all over Europe.
www.gelderland.nl Gelderland ( / ˈ ɡ ɛ l d ər l ə n d / , Dutch: [ˈɣɛldərlɑnt] ⓘ ), also known as Guelders ( / ˈ ɡ ɛ l d ər z / ) [ 5 ] in English, is a province of the Netherlands , located in the centre-east of the country.
Amsterdam (/ ˈ æ m s t ər d æ m / AM-stər-dam, UK also / ˌ æ m s t ər ˈ d æ m / AM-stər-DAM, [12] [13] Dutch: [ˌɑmstərˈdɑm] ⓘ; lit. ' Dam in the Amstel ') [14] is the capital [a] and most populated city of the Netherlands.
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 ...
's-Hertogenbosch (Dutch: [ˌsɛrtoːɣə(m)ˈbɔs] ⓘ), [b] colloquially known as Den Bosch (pronounced [dɛm ˈbɔs] ⓘ), is a city and municipality in the Netherlands with a population of 160,783. It is the capital of the province of North Brabant and its fourth lar
Dutch Topographic map of Bronckhorst, June 2015. Bronckhorst (pronounced [ˈbrɔŋkɦɔrst] ⓘ) is a municipality in Gelderland, the Netherlands.The municipality is the result of a merger of the former municipalities Hengelo, Hummelo en Keppel, Steenderen, Vorden and Zelhem, on 1 January 2005.