The provinces of Holland, Zeeland, Groningen, Friesland,…
1540 CE to 1683 CE
All these duchies, lordships and counties are autonomous and have their own government, the States-Provincial.
The States General, the confederal government, are seated in The Hague and consist of representatives from each of the seven provinces.
The sparsely populated region of Drenthe is part of the republic too, although it is not considered one of the provinces.
Moreover, the Republic has come to occupy during the Eighty Years' War a number of so-called Generality Lands in Flanders, Brabant and Limburg.
Their population is mainly Roman Catholic.
These areas do not have a governmental structure of their own, and are used as a buffer zone between the Republic and the Spanish-controlled Southern Netherlands.
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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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