Duchy Of Limburg

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The Duchy of Limburg was a state of the Holy Roman Empire and the German Confederation in the Low Countries , located between the river Meuse and the city of Aachen . Its territory is presently part of the Belgian provinces Liège and Limburg ( Voeren ) and the Dutch province Limburg .

The Duchy was formed in the , Rolduc and Valkenburg ), it was one of the Seventeen Provinces . Significant towns in ''Limburg proper'' were Herve , Montzen , Lontzen , Eupen , Baelen and Esneux .

At the Peace Of Westphalia , ending the Eighty Years' War in 1648 , parts of Limburg and Overmaas were ceded to the United Provinces ( Staats-Limburg ). The rest (including Limburg proper) remained under Spanish (later Austrian) rule as part of the Southern Netherlands .

When the region was occupied by the French in 1794 , Staats-Limburg became part of the Département Meuse-Inférieure . The Austrian Duchy of Limburg was disbanded and became part of the département Ourte . After the defeat of Napoleon in 1814 , when the United Kingdom Of The Netherlands was created, Meuse-Inférieure formed the new province of Limburg , and Ourte formed the new province of Liège .

The Dutch province of Limburg (minus the cities of Maastricht and Venlo ), although an integral part of the Dutch terroritory, was a member of the German Confederation between 1839 and 1866 under the name Duchy of Limburg to appease Prussia , which had lost access to the Meuse River after the Congress Of Vienna .

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