provinces of the Low Countries

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The provinces of the Low Countries were a group of historically significant, largely Dutch- and Flemish-speaking territories in northwestern Europe that roughly correspond to present-day Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf group of territories
historical region
associatedEvent Dutch Revolt NERFINISHED
Eighty Years' War NERFINISHED
borderedBy Holy Roman Empire NERFINISHED
Kingdom of France NERFINISHED
coastalOn North Sea NERFINISHED
containedTerritory County of Artois GENERATED
County of Flanders GENERATED
County of Hainaut GENERATED
County of Holland GENERATED
County of Mechelen GENERATED
County of Namur GENERATED
County of Zeeland GENERATED
County of Zutphen GENERATED
Drenthe GENERATED
Duchy of Brabant GENERATED
Duchy of Guelders GENERATED
Duchy of Limburg GENERATED
Duchy of Luxembourg GENERATED
Friesland GENERATED
Groningen GENERATED
Lille, Douai and Orchies GENERATED
Lordship of Overijssel GENERATED
Lordship of Utrecht GENERATED
Prince-Bishopric of Liège GENERATED
Tournai and Tournaisis GENERATED
economicRole major European trading region
historicalLanguage Dutch
Flemish
historicallyRuledBy Austrian Habsburgs NERFINISHED
House of Burgundy NERFINISHED
House of Habsburg NERFINISHED
Spanish Crown NERFINISHED
historicalPeriod Early Modern period NERFINISHED
late Middle Ages NERFINISHED
knownFor dense network of rivers and canals
textile industry
urbanization
locatedIn northwestern Europe
modernSuccessorState Grand Duchy of Luxembourg NERFINISHED
Kingdom of Belgium NERFINISHED
Kingdom of the Netherlands NERFINISHED
partOf Burgundian Netherlands NERFINISHED
Habsburg Netherlands NERFINISHED
Seventeen Provinces NERFINISHED
religiousContext Protestant Reformation NERFINISHED
Roman Catholicism
roughlyCorrespondTo Belgium NERFINISHED
Luxembourg NERFINISHED
the Netherlands NERFINISHED

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Council of Blood appliesToJurisdiction provinces of the Low Countries