Southern Netherlands

The Southern Netherlands is the (collection) name for the various lands heerlijkheden from the low countries who under the authority of the Habsburgs remained, after theinsurgent seven northern provinces had separated in 1581. Because the Habsburg King of Spain from 1556 Danvers also was, were the seventeen provinces as a whole when the Spanish Netherlands Royal or called. But after the secession was also that designation only on the southern Netherlands by application. Geographically, can, in addition to areas under reign of the Habsburgs, the Principality of Liège and other smaller Territories to be counted among the southern Netherlands. After the end of thewar of Spanish Succession in 1713, the southern Netherlands by the Treaty of Utrecht under rule of the Austrian Habsburgs and were for that reason also called theAustrian Netherlands or Belgium Austriacum called.

To the administrative unit of the southern Netherlands came to an end when it was annexed by France in 1795, although during the United Kingdom of the Netherlands(1815-1830) the area concerned is referred to as the southern Netherlands.



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[hide] *Arise 1  ==Genesis[ Edit] == On 6 January 1579 was the Union of Atrecht and 1579 on 17 may was in the Abbey of St. Vaast signed the Tract of Arras, in which the areas of the Union, French Flanders, Artois and Hainaut, at the beginning of the eighty years ' war with Philip II of Spain atoned and finally peace locks with Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, which recognized them as Governor . Their example was in the course of the year by the city of Mechelen and Nivelles in Brabant, and Aalst, G mountains, Bourbourg and Belle followed in Flanders. This was the separation between the later Northern Republic and the southern Netherlands deployed.
 * Division 2
 * 3 further course
 * 4 see also
 * 5 Famous Southern Dutch

The southern Netherlands came to stand by itself as a result of the secretion by the northern Netherlands in 1581 of peace on July 26, in which Philip II expiry of the throne of the low countries was explained. This meant that the northern provinces of the Empire after 1822 Spanish Netherlands actually compared to the southern, even though it was William of Orange's document in optics at the time for all of the seventeen provinces meant.

De facto separation was brought about by the fall of Antwerp in 1585 four years later, on 27 August. The Duke of Parma the previous years had already recaptured all cities in the southern Netherlands, against which the Northern undertook no action. In August, Parma than its largest success with the capture of Antwerp, the largest and richest city in the low countries, which garrison took the army of Flanders . The Catholic religion was required. Parma forced a final separation of the northern and Southern Netherlands. The prince-bishopric of Liège remained independent. ==Division[ Edit] == The low countries were since then as follows:

==Further course[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1830, the southern Netherlands United Kingdom of the Netherlands and arose independently of Belgium.
 * On the one hand, the free-spirited seven northern regions (from now on, the United provinces and later called the Republic of the seven United Netherlands ), with the Calvinism as predominant religion and a growing role for the Orange dynasty and that a golden age in the 17th century experienced.
 * On the other hand, the remaining ten, impoverished, southern regions, where under pressure from the Spanish Army of Flanders the Burgundian-Habsburg dynasty and the Roman Catholicism as a religion preserved and Calvinism kept out.