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Seventeen Provinces
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Seventeen Provinces
The
Seventeen Provinces
was a term applied to the
Imperial states
of the
Habsburg Netherlands
in the 15th and 16th century. They roughly covered the
Low Countries
, i.e. the current
Netherlands
,
Belgium
, and
Luxembourg
, plus most of the modern
French
department
of
Nord
including
Artois
,
French Flanders
, and
French Hainaut
. Also enclosed in this area were semi-independent fiefdoms, mainly ecclesiastical ones, such as
Liège
,
Cambrai
and
Stavelot-Malmedy
.
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