The Seventeen Provinces were the Imperial states of the Habsburg Netherlands in the 16th century. They roughly covered the Low Countries, i.e., what is now the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and most of the French departments of Nord (French Flanders and French Hainaut) and Pas-de-Calais ().Also within this area were semi-independent fiefdoms, mainly …

In the Low Countries, stadtholder (Dutch: stadhouder [ˈstɑtˌɦʌudər] ()) was an office of steward, designated a medieval official and then a national leader.The stadtholder was the replacement of the duke or count of a province during the Burgundian and Habsburg period (1384 – 1581/1795).. The title was used for the official tasked with maintaining peace and provincial order in the ...

The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt (Dutch: Nederlandse Opstand) (c.1566/1568–1648) was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government.The causes of the war included the Reformation, centralisation, taxation, and the rights and privileges of the nobility and cities.After the initial stages, Philip II of Spain, the …

The medieval Low Countries, including present-day Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, as well as parts of modern Germany and France, comprised a number of rival and independent feudal states of varying sizes.These each had their own identities and governments, though in the early modern period almost all the Belgian states became part of larger entities (the …

In Spain, an autonomous community (Spanish: comunidad autónoma) is the first-level political and administrative division, created in accordance with the Spanish Constitution of 1978, with the aim of guaranteeing limited autonomy of the nationalities and regions that make up Spain.. Spain is not a federation, but a decentralised unitary country. While sovereignty is vested in the …

The Provinces of the Philippines are the main political and administrative divisions of the Philippines. There are 80 provinces at present. ... Region, as well as independent cities, are separate from any provincial government. Each province has a governor. The provinces are grouped into seventeen regions based on geographical, cultural, and ...

There are twelve provinces of the Netherlands (Dutch: provincies van Nederland), representing the administrative layer between the national government and the local municipalities, with responsibility for matters of subnational or regional importance.. With 383,488 inhabitants, Zeeland has the smallest population. However Drenthe is the least densely populated province …

The term Low Countries, also known as the Low Lands (Dutch: de Lage Landen, French: les Pays-Bas, Luxembourgish: déi Niddereg Lännereien) and historically called the Netherlands (Dutch: de Nederlanden), Flanders, or Belgica, is a coastal lowland region in Northwestern Europe forming the lower basin of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta and consisting of three …

Tibet (/ t ɪ ˈ b ɛ t / (); Tibetan: བོད་, Lhasa dialect: [pʰøː˨˧˩] Böd; Chinese: 西藏; pinyin: Xīzàng) is a region in East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about 2,500,000 km 2 (970,000 sq mi). It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people.Also resident on the plateau are some other ethnic groups such as Monpa, Tamang, Qiang, Sherpa and Lhoba ...

The United East India Company (Dutch: Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the VOC) was a chartered company established on the 20th March 1602 by the States General of the Netherlands amalgamating existing companies into the first joint-stock company in the world, granting it a 21-year monopoly to carry out trade activities in Asia. Shares in the company could be bought by …