Seventeen Provinces
Union of states in the Netherlands in the 15th and 16th centuries / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Seventeen Provinces were the Imperial states of the Habsburg Netherlands in the 16th century. They roughly covered the Low Countries, i.e., what is now the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and most of the French departments of Nord (French Flanders and French Hainaut) and Pas-de-Calais (Artois). Also within this area were semi-independent fiefdoms, mainly ecclesiastical ones, such as Liège, Cambrai and Stavelot-Malmedy.
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1549–1581 | |||||||||||
Status | Personal union of Imperial fiefs | ||||||||||
Capital | Brussels | ||||||||||
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Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||
Historical era | Early modern period | ||||||||||
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• Dutch Act of Abjuration | 1581 | ||||||||||
ISO 3166 code | NL | ||||||||||
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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 Republic.