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unusual facts about Southern Netherlands


Alexius Sylvius Polonus

In 1617 Sylvius accompanied Malapert on his return to the Southern Netherlands, where they both spent twelve years at the University of Douai.


Jacobus Harrewijn

Jacobus Harrewijn (1660 in Amsterdam – 1727 in Brussels) (in modern Dutch Jacobus Harrewijn) was an engraver from the Southern Netherlands.

Karl Anselm, 4th Prince of Thurn and Taxis

During the invasion of French troops in the Austrian Netherlands in 1794, the local properties of the Thurn und Taxis family were seized.

Louis Joseph Lahure

Louis Joseph Lahure (Mons, Austrian Netherlands, 29 December 1767 - château de Wavrechain-sous-Faulx, near Bouchain, Valenciennes, 24 October 1853) was a general from the Southern Netherlands in the service of the First French Republic and First French Empire.

Louis-François Bertin

In 1814 he regained possession, restored the old title, and continued his support of the royalist cause during the Hundred Days, joining Louis XVIII in the Southern Netherlands, where he edited the Moniteur Universel as Moniteur de Gand.

Salomon Vredeman de Vries

Salomon Vredeman de Vries (Mechelen, 1556 - The Hague, 1604), was a Flemish painter and draughtsman who specialised in architectural paintings.


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De Swaen

Michiel de Swaen - surgeon and rederijker from the Southern Netherlands

Fokker 70

The Fokker 70's first flight occurred on April 4, 1993, at the company's base at Woensdrecht in southern Netherlands, and had a duration of three hours.

Fürstenbund

For Karl Theodor, his interest in the projected deal was mostly a matter of prestige as he envisioned himself as the ruler, possibly with the title of king, of a reconstructed Duchy of Burgundy composed of the Southern Netherlands plus his existing possessions in the Lower and Upper Rhine region, such as the Palatinate of the Rhine and the duchy of Berg-Jülich.

Jean-Nicolas Lemmens

Jean-Nicolas Lemmens was born the son of Godfried Lemmens and Gertrude Bemelmans, within a large Dutch Roman Catholic, family originating from the Beek-Schimmert area in the southern Netherlands.

Louis de Potter

He belonged to a rich noble family (his father was the Esquire Clément de Potter de Droogenwalle) which sought asylum in Germany after the second French invasion of the Southern Netherlands in 1794 and remained there until the Consulate.

Renaissance in the Low Countries

The most important sculptor in the Southern Netherlands was Giambologna, who spent most of his career in Italy.

Treaty of Arras

the Union of Arras, the pledge of loyalty to Spain by the Southern Netherlands