Northern Low Countries

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The Northern Low Countries is a historical region in northwestern Europe encompassing the northern part of the Low Countries, roughly corresponding to much of present-day Netherlands.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf geographical region
historical region
borderedBy North Sea NERFINISHED
Southern Low Countries NERFINISHED
coastType low-lying coastal plain
containsLandscape estuaries
polders
river deltas
contrastedWith Southern Low Countries NERFINISHED
culturalHistory heartland of the Dutch Golden Age
economicHistory major center of early capitalism
major center of maritime trade
formerSovereign Habsburg Netherlands NERFINISHED
Holy Roman Empire NERFINISHED
Spanish Crown NERFINISHED
historicalPeriod Early Modern period NERFINISHED
Late Middle Ages
historicalReligionDominant Calvinism NERFINISHED
historicalReligionMinority Roman Catholicism NERFINISHED
historicalTermUsedIn Dutch historiography
includesHistoricalTerritory Bishopric of Utrecht GENERATED
County of Holland GENERATED
County of Zeeland GENERATED
Duchy of Guelders GENERATED
Friesland GENERATED
Lordship of Groningen GENERATED
Lordship of Overijssel GENERATED
languageHistoricallySpoken Dutch
Frisian NERFINISHED
locatedIn Europe
northwestern Europe
majorCityHistorical Amsterdam NERFINISHED
Leiden NERFINISHED
Rotterdam NERFINISHED
The Hague NERFINISHED
Utrecht NERFINISHED
majorRiver Meuse NERFINISHED
Rhine NERFINISHED
Scheldt (northern branches) NERFINISHED
modernSuccessorState Kingdom of the Netherlands NERFINISHED
partOf Low Countries NERFINISHED
politicalDevelopment core area of the Dutch Revolt
core of the emerging Dutch Republic
religiousHistory center of the Protestant Reformation in the Low Countries
roughlyCorrespondsTo Netherlands NERFINISHED
present-day Netherlands
seaAccess North Sea NERFINISHED
subregionOf Low Countries NERFINISHED

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Lordship of Drenthe historicalRegion Northern Low Countries
City of Groningen (Spanish-aligned) locatedIn Northern Low Countries
Sticht Utrecht historicalRegion Northern Low Countries