All fiefs in the current Netherlands region…
1540 CE to 1683 CE
In 1568, the Eighty Years' War between the Provinces and their Spanish ruler begins.
In 1579, the northern half of the Seventeen Provinces forge the Union of Utrecht in which they commit to support each other in their defense against the Spanish army.
The Union of Utrecht is seen as the foundation of the modern Netherlands.
In 1581, the northern provinces adopt the Act of Abjuration, the declaration of independence in which the provinces officially depose Philip II of Spain as reigning monarch in the northern provinces.
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Dutch people
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Flanders, County of
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Namur, County of
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Habsburg, House of
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Zutphen, County of
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Limburg, Duchy of
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Hainaut, County of
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Holland, County of
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Guelders, Duchy of
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Brabant, Duchy of
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Artois, County of
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Zeeland, County of
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Mechelen, Lordship of
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Luxemburg, Duchy of
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Holy Roman Empire
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Netherlands, Habsburg
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Spain, Habsburg Kingdom of
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Frisia, Lordship of
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Utrecht, Lordship of
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Drenthe, County
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Overijssel, Lordship of
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Groningen, Lordship of
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Seventeen Provinces
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Union of Utrecht
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Netherlands, Southern (Spanish)
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Netherlands, United Provinces of the (Dutch Republic)
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