* Limburg of the States ( 1648 – 1794 ), territories controlled by the Dutch States-General, see Generality Lands

In al-Rabeei's later trial, charges included the October 2002 bombing of the Limburg, a French oil tanker, and a plot to kill the United States Ambassador in Yemen.

In the following decades, the Burgundian dukes expanded their territories in the Low Countries by the acquisition of several Imperial States: Duke Philip the Good purchased the County of Namur in 1421, inherited the Duchies of Brabant and Limburg in 1430, and seized the Counties of Hainaut, Holland and Zeeland in 1432, and the Duchy of Luxembourg in 1441.

An area known as Limburg of the States, consisting of parts of Overmaas, was ceded to the Dutch Republic.

When the region was occupied by the French in 1794, the Overmaas lands of Limburg of the States became part of the département of Meuse-Inférieure, while the Austrian duchy of Limburg proper was disbanded and was incorporated into the département of Ourthe.

* Limburg of the States ( Staats-Limburg or Staats-Overmaas ): several small territories between Maastricht, Liège and Aachen, e. g. Dalhem, Valkenburg and Hertogenrade.

* Moritz of Limburg ( 1633 – 1664 ), German nobility

* 1 Duchess of Limburg ( 1477 – 1482 )

* Province of Limburg ( 1815 – 1839 ), province of the former United Kingdom of the Netherlands

* Duchy of Limburg ( 1839 – 1867 ), duchy in personal union with the Kingdom of the Netherlands

* Limburg ( Netherlands ) ( 1866 – present ), province of the Netherlands

* Limburg ( Belgium ) ( 1839 – present ), a province of Belgium

Limburg – extract from the Topographia Hassiae by Matthäus Merian 1655

* Province of Limburg ( 1815 – 1839 ), a former province of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands

* Duchy of Limburg ( 1065 – 1794 ), a state in the Holy Roman Empire

* Duchy of Limburg ( 1839 – 1867 ), a part of the German Confederation

* Jobst of Limburg ( 1560 – 1621 ), German nobility

* Olga Limburg ( 1881 – 1970 ), German actor

It was made the capital of the newly formed Province of Limburg ( 1815 – 1839 ).

The lyrics written in 1841 describe a then – disunited Germany with the river as its western boundary, where King William I of the Netherlands had joined the German Confederation with his Duchy of Limburg in 1839.

* 2002 – The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.

* March 12 – Leopold Karel, Count of Limburg Stirum ( d. 1840 )

* 1288 – June 5 – John I of Brabant defeats the duchy of Guelders in the Battle of Worringen — one of the largest battles in Europe of the Middle Ages — thus winning possession of the duchy of Limburg.

* June 5 – Battle of Worringen: John I of Brabant defeats the duchy of Guelders in one of the largest battles in Europe of the Middle Ages, thus winning possession of the duchy of Limburg.

The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Duchy of Limburg ( 1839 – 1867 ) | Limburg in 18391, 2 and 3 United Kingdom of the Netherlands ( until 1830 ) 1 and 2 Netherlands | Kingdom of the Netherlands ( after 1830 ) 2 Duchy of Limburg ( 1839 – 1867 ) ( in the German Confederacy after 1839 as compensation for Waals-Luxemburg ) 3 and 4 Belgium | Kingdom of Belgium ( after 1830 ) 4 and 5 Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( borders until 1830 ) 4 Luxembourg ( province ) | Province of Luxembourg ( Waals-Luxemburg, to Belgium in 1839 ) 5 Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( German Luxemburg ; borders after 1839 ) In blue, the borders of the German Confederation.

* Duchy of Limburg ( 1065-1794 ), a state in the Holy Roman Empire

The High German languages ( in German, Hochdeutsche Sprachen ) or the High German dialects ( Hochdeutsche Mundarten / Dialekte ) are any of the varieties of standard German, Luxembourgish and Yiddish, as well as the local German dialects spoken in central and southern Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Luxembourg and in neighboring portions of Belgium and the Netherlands ( Ripuarian dialects in southeast Limburg ), France ( Alsace and northern Lorraine ), Italy, Denmark, and Poland.

* Limburg ( Belgium ), a province since 1839 in the Flanders region of Belgium

* Limburg ( Netherlands ), a province since 1839 in the south of the Netherlands

* Limburg ( Weilheim an der Teck ), a mountain in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

* Adolf of Limburg ( died 1506 ), German nobility

* Eberhard of Limburg ( died c. 1426 ), German nobility

* Georg of Limburg ( died 1552 ), German nobility

* Johann of Limburg ( died c. 1364 ), German nobility

* Helge Limburg ( born 1982 ), German politician

* Otto of Limburg ( died 1679 ), German nobility

* Limburg ( tanker ), a French oil tanker bombed off Yemen

Owing to the favourable soil and climate, the Limburg Basin stands as one of Hesse ’ s richest agricultural regions and moreover, with its convenient Lahn crossing, it has been of great importance to transport since the Middle Ages.

There is, however, one exception ; the title Hertog van Limburg ( Duke of Limburg ) still exists.

Limburg () is the easternmost of the five provinces of modern Flanders, which is one of the three main political and cultural sub-divisions of modern Belgium.

During the Middle Ages, it became one of the bigger towns of the county of Loon, which had borders approximately the same as the current province of Limburg.

The battle was fought for the possession of the Duchy of Limburg, and was one of the largest battles in Europe in the Middle Ages.

When she died childless one year later, her husband claimed the Duchy of Limburg and in 1282 had his demand recognized by the German king Rudolph of Habsburg.

Coat of arms of the Dukes of LimburgThe counts of Limburg were the original rulers of the Duchy of Limburg and rose to prominence when one of their house was appointed Duke of Lower Lorraine.

Thereafter, the dukes of Limburg were one of several lines of heirs of the territory and title of the old duke of Lower Lorraine.

It is published in two editions: one with a green cover by the KVHV of Leuven ( used in the provinces of Vlaams-Brabant, Limburg, and Antwerp ) and one with a blue cover by the KVHV of Ghent ( used in East and West Flanders ).

Actually there had been two venues available, the one at Venlo in Limburg and one at Elst in Gelderland, but the aid offered by the army turned the decision into the favour of Venlo.

In 2007, one same-sex union received a blessing in German town of Wetzlar in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg.

Seventy-five years of mining had turned the south of the province of Limburg into one of the most densely populated areas of the Netherlands.

The Limburg mining area was in danger of becoming one of the impoverished regions of Europe.

However, upon the death of Henry's son Waleran IV in 1279, leaving only one heiress Irmgard, who had married Count Reginald I of Guelders but died childless in 1283, the War of the Limburg Succession broke out.

Limburg was one of the provinces of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and later Belgium.

With an area of almost 150 square kilometres, Venray, a municipality in the north of Limburg, is one of the largest municipalities in the Netherlands.

The cabinet appointed as governor of Limburg one Decker, who had been entangled in the financial speculations of Langand-Dumonceau by which the whole clerical party had been discredited, and which provoked riots.