United Netherlands

English

Proper noun

the United Netherlands

1. The United Provinces of the Netherlands, the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands, or the Dutch Republic, a confederation that existed from 1579 until the Batavian Revolution in 1795; a predecessor state of the present-day Netherlands.
   • 1691, An Accurate Relation of the Entertainment of His Most Sacred Majesty William III. King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland; Hereditary Stadtholder of the United Netherlands, &c. at the Hague. […], London, page 18:

     Theſe Words are Written round the Cupola of this Building, Pio, Felici, Inclyto, Triumphanti, Patriæ Patri Gulielmo III. Gubernatori P. C. J. P. Reſtauratori Belgii Fœderati, Liberatori Angliæ, Servatori Scotiæ, Pacificatori Hiberniæ, Reduci: To the Pious, Happy, Renowned William III. Triumphant, Father of his Country, Stadtholder and Reſtorer of the United Netherlands, Redeemer of England, Preſerver of Scotland, Quieter of Ireland, now return’d home.

   • 1762, A[nton] F[riedrich] Busching, “Introduction to the United Netherlands”, in [Patrick Murdoch], transl., A New System of Geography: In Which Is Given, a General Account of the Situation and Limits, the Manners, History, and Constitution, of the Several Kingdoms and States in the Known World; […], volumes III (Containing, Italy, Sardinia, Naples, Sicily, England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, United Netherlands, and Swisserland), London: […] A[ndrew] Millar […], →OCLC, § 3, pages 449–450:

     The United Netherlands, (in Latin called Belgium fœderatum,) which we here particularly ſpeak of, form the northern part of the Netherlands, and including the Generalitélandes, border to the ſouth on Auſtrian Flanders and Brabant, to the eaſt on the upper quarters of the dutchies of Gelders and Cleve, the biſhopric of Munſter, the County of Bentheim, and the principality of Eaſt Frieſland, and to the north and weſt on the northern ſea; forming a territory of about ſix hundred and twenty-five ſquare geographical miles.

   • 1782, “an American” [pseudonym], A Collection of State-Papers, […], London: […] John Fielding, […]; John Debrett, […]; and John Sewell, […]:

     A COLLECTION OF STATE-PAPERS, Relative to the Firſt Acknowledgment of the Sovereignty of the United States of America, And the Reception of their Miniſter Plenipotentiary, by their High Mightineſſes the States General of the United Netherlands.

   • 1860, John Lothrop Motley, History of the United Netherlands: From the Death of William the Silent to the Synod of Dort, volume II, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, page 519:

     Inspired by these remonstrances, the Queen once more emptied the vials of her wrath upon the United Netherlands.

Further reading

• United Netherlands on Wikipedia.Wikipedia