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Category : Seventeen Provinces

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The Seventeen Provinces , is the name given to a number of counties and duchies in the Low Countries in the 15th and 16th century.

Most of these were fiefs of either France or the Holy Roman Empire , although by the 15th century they had been united in a personal union and were only fiefs in name. In the Pragmatic Sanction of 1549 , Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor officialized this situation by declaring the region as a separate entity, a Kreits within the Holy Roman Empire, as part of the Burgundian Circle .

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