Austrian Netherlands
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The Austrian Netherlands[nb 1] was the territory of the Burgundian Circle of the Holy Roman Empire between 1714 and 1797. The period began with the Austrian acquisition of the former Spanish Netherlands under the Treaty of Rastatt in 1714 and lasted until Revolutionary France annexed the territory during the aftermath of the Battle of Sprimont in 1794 and the Peace of Basel in 1795. Austria relinquished its claim on the province in 1797 by the Treaty of Campo Formio.
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1714–1797 | |||||||||||
Status | Personal union of Imperial fiefs within Empire | ||||||||||
Capital | Brussels | ||||||||||
Common languages | |||||||||||
Religion | Roman Catholic | ||||||||||
Government | Governorate | ||||||||||
Governor | |||||||||||
• 1716–1724 (first) | Eugene Francis | ||||||||||
• 1793–1794 (last) | Charles Louis | ||||||||||
Plenipotentiary | |||||||||||
• 1714–1716 (first) | Lothar Dominik | ||||||||||
• 1793–1794 (last) | Franz Karl [de] | ||||||||||
Historical era | Early modern | ||||||||||
7 March 1714 | |||||||||||
8 November 1785 | |||||||||||
1789–1790 | |||||||||||
18 September 1794 | |||||||||||
17 October 1797 | |||||||||||
Currency | Kronenthaler | ||||||||||
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