The Seventeen Provinces indicate the territories raising today mainly of the Belgium, of the Luxembourg, the North of the France and the current Netherlands, which, of the 14th century at the 16th century belonged to the Ducs of Burgundy.

The Seventeen Provinces formed the Burgundian Netherlands , before passing under the crown of Charles Quint.

List territories

This name was given sometimes to the following possessions of Charles Quint: Franche-Comté, County of Flanders (with Turned and the Tournésis), Artois, Malignant Seigneurie, Marquisat of Antwerp, Comté of Hainaut, Comté of Namur, Duché of the Brabant, Limbourg, Luxembourg, Comté of Holland, Comté of Zealand, Gueldre (with Zutphen), Utrecht, Over-Yssel, Frise, Groningue (with Drenthe). Cambrai was joined there later.

These 17 provinces were divided by the truce of Antwerp (1609) and formed two masses: the seven provinces of north (Holland, Zealand, Utrecht, Gueldre, Over-Yssel, Groningue and Plank) took their independent under the name of United Provinces . The ten provinces (those of the south) remaining are sometimes called Netherlands of the south and formed the Spanish Netherlands and since 1713 the Austrian Netherlands, until the French occupation of 1795.

External bond

• Enumeration by the General states of October 15th, 1555 (in Dutch, with chart)

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