The barrier towns were present-day Belgian towns, heavily fortified by the Dutch, on the Austrian Netherlands's border with France, and as such were particularly important in the wars between the Dutch Republic and Ancien Régime France.
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In the War of the Austrian Succession, France conquered these towns, but at the end of the war was forced to return them to the Netherlands by the 1748 Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle and the resulting Treaty.
Cape Town | town | Gotha (town) | University of Cape Town | Great Barrier Reef | Camden Town | Huddersfield Town F.C. | Swindon Town F.C. | Ipswich Town F.C. | Our Town | New Town | ghost town | Workington Town | Little Big Town | New Town, Tasmania | Yeovil Town | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Yeovil Town F.C. | Sydney Town Hall | Shrewsbury Town F.C. | Luton Town F.C. | George Town | company town | City of Cape Town | Town Hall | Great Barrier Island | Cougar Town | Road Town | Old Town | Jersey barrier |