Meuse-Inférieure
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300px|thumb|right|Map of the former Meuse-Inférieure département. Meuse-Inférieure (; ; ; "Lower Meuse") was a department of the French First Republic and French First Empire in present-day Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. It was named after the river Meuse. Its territory corresponded largely with the present-day provinces of Belgian and Dutch Limburg. It was created on 1 October 1795, when the Austrian Netherlands and the Prince-Bishopric of Liège were officially annexed by the French Republic. Before this annexation, its territory was part of the County of Loon, the Austrian Upper Guelders,
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- department of France
- Named after
- Meuse
- Official name
- Meuse-Inférieure
- Country
- France
- Capital
- Maastricht
- Shares border with
- Dyle
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- inception
- 1795-10-01
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1814-05-30
- exact match
- www.gemeentegeschiedenis.nl/departement/NM
- replaced by
- Province of Limburg
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Administration
- Prefects
- Secretaries-General
- Subprefects of Hasselt
- Subprefects of Maastricht
- Subprefects of Roermond
- References
300px|thumb|right|Map of the former Meuse-Inférieure département. Meuse-Inférieure (; ; ; "Lower Meuse") was a department of the French First Republic and French First Empire in present-day Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. It was named after the river Meuse. Its territory corresponded largely with the present-day provinces of Belgian and Dutch Limburg. It was created on 1 October 1795, when the Austrian Netherlands and the Prince-Bishopric of Liège were officially annexed by the French Republic. Before this annexation, its territory was part of the County of Loon, the Austrian Upper Guelders, the Staats-Oppergelre, the County of Horne, the Abbacy of Thorn, Maastricht and part of the Lands of Overmaas. The original medieval Duchy of Limburg were associated with the Lands of Overmaas, lying to their south. The two regions had long been governed together and referred to collectively with both names, but the original Duchy lands were not part of this new entity.
thumb|Meuse-Inférieure within the northern French Empire (1811)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Meuse-Inférieure” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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