The Italian republics, the United ProvincesoftheNetherlands, are all in debt.
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In 1581 the seven United ProvincesoftheNetherlands declared their independence of Spain.
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In 1621, the truce between the Catholic and Protestant provincesoftheNetherlands collapsed.
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He was the son of a clergyman in Friesland, one of the northern provincesoftheNetherlands.
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Out from this northern region, and into all the seventeen provincesoftheNetherlands, the custom spread.
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He was to make no special contracts or treaties with any cities or provincesoftheNetherlands.
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Above all, there was the port city of Amsterdam in the Reformed Protestant United ProvincesoftheNetherlands.
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The ten southern provincesoftheNetherlands, mainly Roman Catholic in population, soon effected a reconciliation with Philip and returned to their allegiance.
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The seventeen provincesoftheNetherlands occupied the flat, low country along the North Sea-theHolland, Belgium, and northern France of the present day.
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The cities, in common with all the provincesoftheNetherlands, may hold diets as often ten and at such places as they choose.