Netherlands (disambiguation)

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The Netherlands have been the name of different political and geographical entities in northwestern Europe.

• The Netherlands (Dutch: Nederland). The European country.
• The Kingdom of the Netherlands. The kingdom consisting of the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles, and Aruba.
• The Seven United Netherlands, also known as the United Provinces. A predecessor of the current country. It existed from 1581 to 1795.
• The Seventeen Netherlands, fiefs of the Holy Roman Empire and France. United by Charles V of Spain. The Seventeen Netherlands roughly correspond with present day Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and parts of Northern France.
• The Southern Netherlands. The name of the territory roughly corresponding to present day Belgium from the independence of the Seven Netherlands to the French Revolution. Also called Spanish Netherlands (1579-1713) or Austrian Netherlands (1713-1794).

See also

• Low Countriesfr:Pays-Bas (homonymie)

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