Seventeen Provinces

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Habsburg territory composite monarchy historical polity

The Seventeen Provinces were a loose collection of Habsburg-ruled territories in the Low Countries that roughly correspond to present-day Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of northern France and western Germany.

Aliases (1)

Seventeen Provinces of the Low Countries ×2

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Habsburg territory → composite monarchy → historical polity →
alsoKnownAs	Low Countries under Habsburg rule →
capital	Brussels →
continent	Europe →
country	Holy Roman Empire →
createdBy	Pragmatic Sanction of 1549 →
currency	gulden →
endTime	1581 → 1648 →
followedBy	Austrian Netherlands → Dutch Republic → Spanish Netherlands →
foundedBy	Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor →
governmentType	personal union →
hasPart	County of Artois → County of Flanders → County of Hainaut → County of Holland → County of Namur → County of Zeeland → Duchy of Brabant → Duchy of Guelders → Duchy of Limburg → Duchy of Luxembourg → Lordship of Friesland → Lordship of Groningen → Lordship of Mechelen → Lordship of Overijssel → Lordship of Utrecht → Prince-Bishopric of Liège (de facto influence) →
language	Dutch → French → Latin →
locatedInPresentDay	Belgium → France → Germany → Luxembourg → Netherlands →
monarch	Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor → Philip II of Spain →
partOf	Habsburg Netherlands →
precededBy	Burgundian Netherlands →
religion	Protestantism → Roman Catholicism →
ruler	House of Habsburg →
significantEvent	Act of Abjuration → Dutch Revolt → Eighty Years' War → Treaty of Münster → Union of Utrecht →
startTime	1549 →

Referenced by (21)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
County of Holland → Duchy of Brabant → Duchy of Limburg → Lordship of Friesland → Lordship of Groningen → Lordship of Mechelen → Lordship of Overijssel → Lordship of Utrecht →	partOf
Lord of the Seventeen Provinces → Pragmatic Sanction of 1549 →	appliesTo
Council of Troubles → States General of the Habsburg Netherlands →	appliesToJurisdiction
Eighty Years' War →	belligerent
Willem Barentsz →	birthPlace
Burgundian Netherlands →	followedBy
Pacification of Ghent ("Seventeen Provinces of the Low Countries") →	geographicalScope
Pragmatic Sanction of 1549 ("Seventeen Provinces of the Low Countries") →	jurisdiction
United Provinces →	precededBy
Dutch Republic →	predecessor
Low Countries →	relatedEntity
Pacification of Ghent →	signatory