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

* Limburg of the States ( 1633 – 1685 ), one of the Generality Lands, a dependent territory of the United Provinces of the Netherlands

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.

Bataafs-Brabant was merged with a number of formerly semi-independent Holy Roman fiefs and part of the province of Holland to become the province of Noord-Brabant ; Staats-Vlaanderen was incorporated into the province of Zeeland ; and most parts of Staats-Oppergelre and Staats-Limburg were merged with territories gained from Prussia to form the province of Limburg, with the rest going to Prussia.

C. Countess van Limburg Stirum writes in her book " The Art of Dutch Cooking " ( 1962 ): There exist countless Indonesian dishes, some of which take hours to prepare ; but a few easy ones have become so popular that they can be regarded as " national dishes ".

The Countess C. van Limburg Stirum writes in her book " The Art of Dutch Cooking " ( 1962 ): There exist countless Indonesian dishes, some of which take hours to prepare ; but a few easy ones have become so popular that they can be regarded as " national dishes ".

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

As is the case for many parts of Limburg, Herzogenrath changed hands several times in the last few centuries.

Although The Netherlands remained neutral during the conflict, Ruijs de Beerenbrouck nevertheless was facing several problems, especially the return of German troops through the province of Limburg and the exile of the German emperor Wilhelm II.

She is known to have traveled to several cities in Western Europe ; she became a mistress of Philipp Ferdinand of Limburg Stirum and lived off his money in the hope that the count would marry her.

By the end of 1944 the frontline in Dutch Limburg had stabilized along several natural barriers.

* Heikant is a small village 4 km west of Lanaken in the Belgian province of Limburg.

During a century of on-going industrialisation further south in Belgium, Limburg modernised only slowly: Genk remained unimportant and small, growing slowly to a population of 2, 000 around 1900.

Tessenderlo is part of a small western zone of Limburg where the local dialect is not the Limburgian dialect, but Brabantic.

The Duchy of Limburg covered a very small area in the lower Lenne river valley.

* in Germany there were also four major occupation zones: the British Zone ( after three consecutive Military governors from 22 May 1945, the last stayed on as first of three consecutive High Commissioners 21 September 1949 – 5 May 1955 ), the US Zone ( after five Military governors from 8 May 1945, four High Commissioners 2 September 1949 – 5 May 1955 ), the Soviet Zone ( after a military commander April 1945 – 9 June 1945 who stayed as first of three Military governors 9 June 1945 – 10 October 1949, the last of whom stayed on as only Chairman of the Soviet Control Commission 10 October 1949 – 28 May 1953, two High commissioners 28 May 1953 – 20 September 1955 ) and the French Zone ( after a Military commander from May 1945 and a Military governor from July 1945, a single High commissioner 21 September 1949 – 5 May 1955 ); the Nazi capital, Berlin, enclaved in the Soviet zone, is separately quartered under four military City Commanders ; only the small Dutch zone by the border is destined for annexation in 1949, so it is divided up in two districts, each under a landdrost ( Tudderen, attached to the province of ( Dutch ) Limburg and Elten, attached to Gelderland province ), but returned to Germany after compensation payments and minor border corrections on 11 August 1963

The marechaussee would form the only police force in many small cities like Venlo, especially in the southern provinces of Limburg and North Brabant.

His one-man shows usually consisted of stories he would tell, often based on the life of his youth in a small town in Limburg, with a typical panoplia of family members, neighbours, friends ( some enemies ), cats and dogs, which he presented in an irresistibly hilarious manner ; and interspersed with simple, charming, crystal clear songs about life, love, and happiness.

Aaldonk is a small area with just a dozen houses ; it is part of the municipality of Gennep ( in the province of Limburg, the Netherlands ).

Only a small northern part belonged to the département of Meuse-Inférieure and thus to the later province of Limburg.

Willem Heythuijsen was born in Weert, a small city in Dutch Limburg that borders the town of Heythuysen.

The Marechaussee was the only police force in many small municipalities, such as Venlo, especially in the southern provinces of Limburg and North Brabant.

Some bars serve a glass of draft lager with a small amount of table beer added, to take away the fizziness and act as a sweetener, in Limburg it is referred to as a " half om ".

The first Allied troops entered the Netherlands on September 9, 1944, on a reconnaissance patrol ; on September 12, 1944, a small part of Limburg was liberated by the US 30th Infantry Division.

Its territory is now divided between the Belgian provinces of Liège ( northeastern part ) and Limburg ( for example Voeren and Rekem ), the Dutch province of Limburg ( southern part ), and a small part of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany ( for example Herzogenrath ).

Wessem is a small village in the Netherlands, in the province of Limburg.

In the 12th century BC, Wessem received full city rights and from then on suffered the same fate as so many small communities in Limburg.

Sint Odiliënberg is a small village in central Limburg, in the Netherlands, east of the river Maas in the Roer valley.

* The province of Antwerp — except the city of Antwerp itself — and Limburg, west of the Meuse river — except Maastricht — would remain to the Netherlands, as was a small part of the province of Brabant, the former Oranje Lordship of Diest ;

In the 13th century, Dietrich I of Isenberg recovered a small territory out of the previous possessions of his father Friedrich II of Isenberg, built a castle and took the title of count of Limburg, a family which still lives today in Belgium and the Netherland.

Belgium also lost Eastern Limburg, Zeeuws Vlaanderen and French Flanders ( Dutch: Frans Vlaanderen ) and Eupen, four territories which it had all claimed on historical grounds.

Though the present province of Gelderland ( English also Guelders ) in the Netherlands occupies most of the area, the former duchy also comprised parts of the present Dutch province of Limburg as well as those territories in the present-day German state of North Rhine-Westphalia that were acquired by Prussia in 1713.

The failing wars intended to regain the ' heretical ' Northern Netherlands meant significant loss of ( still mainly Catholic ) territories in the north, which was consolidated in the 1648 Westphalian peace, and given the peculiar, inferior status of Generality Lands ( jointly ruled by the United Republic, not admitted as member provinces ): Zeeuws-Vlaanderen ( south of the river Scheldt ), the present Dutch province of Noord-Brabant and Maastricht ( in the present Dutch province of Limburg ).

The territory of Limburg was the same as the combined territories of the present Dutch and Belgian provinces, with the exception of Voeren, which was a part of the province of Liège at the time.

Limburg lies in western Hesse between the Taunus and the Westerwald on the river Lahn.

In the long conflict ( known as the " Borculo question ") between the heirs of the last count of Limburg-Bronkhorst, Joost ( deceased in 1553 without children ), and the Prince-Bishop of Munster over ownership of Borculo, the Court of Gelderland ruled on 20 December 1615 in favour of count Joost van Limburg and Bronkhorst.

Even when Belgium gained its independence from the Netherlands in 1830, and the province of Limburg was definitively split between the Netherlands and Belgium in 1839, this name was retained and the name Loon disappeared.

Kinrooi is a village located in the Belgian province of Limburg, between Kessenich and Bree.

This region comprised most of modern Belgium excepting the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, the Imperial Abbey of Stavelot-Malmedy, the County of Bouillon and Luxembourg ( including the homonymous present Belgian province ), and in addition some parts of the Netherlands ( namely the Duchy of Limburg, now divided between the Dutch province of Limburg and the Belgian provinces of Liège and Limburg ) as well as, until 1678, most of the present Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in northern France.

The community lies in the Westerwald between Montabaur and Limburg an der Lahn, and 25 km from Koblenz.

The exact borders are difficult to be certain about, but the region corresponds to some extent with the later Roman district of civitas Tungrorum on the middle of the Meuse ( Dutch: Maas ) river north of the Ardennes, and including all or most of the region of Limburg ( now divided between a Dutch and Belgian province ), plus the area around modern Aachen, and probably more of the German Rhineland west of the Rhine.

In 2011, a deal was negotiated between the collectors Jo and Marlies Eyck and the province of Limburg.

The Duchy of Limburg, situated in the Low Countries between the river Meuse and the city of Aachen, was a state of the Holy Roman Empire.

However in 1830, Belgium was created, splitting the Kingdom, and the position of Limburg became a cause of conflict between the two resulting Kingdoms.

The duchy lay left of the Rhine river between the Electorate of Cologne in the east and the Duchy of Limburg in the west.

After Napoleon was defeated in 1814, the département was divided between the United Kingdom of the Netherlands ( left bank of the Meuse and a strip along its right bank including Gennep, Tegelen and Sittard, in present Dutch Limburg ) and the Kingdom of Prussia ( Province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, presently part of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany ).

September 1796 it came in the wake of the 2nd Coalition war between Austrians and French in the area between Diez and Limburg ( especially in the chief Steiner Aue ) for battle.

De Groote Peel is a National Park in the Peel, a region in the Southeast of the Netherlands on the border between the provinces of Limburg and North Brabant.

De Peel is a region in the Southeast of the Netherlands that straddles the border between the provinces of North Brabant and Limburg.

Over the next decades the significance of the Duchy of Lower Lorraine diminished and furthermore was affected by the conflict between Emperor Henry IV and his son Henry V: In 1100 Henry IV had enfeoffed Count Henry of Limburg, who Henry V, having enforced the abdication of his father, immediately deposed and replaced by Count Godfrey of Louvain.