In the 14th century, the county of Flanders reached its maximum size, and became the wealthiest part of the Seventeen Provinces.

In the sixteenth century, the Seventeen Provinces were the centre of free trade, imposing no exchange controls, and advocating the free movement of goods.

The Seventeen Provinces are declared inseparable.

Thus a large part of the Netherlands ( known as the Seventeen Provinces ) stayed in the Habsburg patrimony.

The Seventeen Provinces, and the Bishopric of Liège in Green

The Pragmatic Sanction of 1549, issued by Charles V, established the Seventeen Provinces ( or Spanish Netherlands in its broad sense ) as an entity separate from the Empire and from France.

These territories formed an integral part of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands as they were defined during the reign of Philip's son, Emperor Charles V, and passed to Charles's son, Philip II of Spain.

At the same time ( 1581 ), at the call of Elizabeth I of England, the north of the Seventeen Provinces, having gained a Protestant majority, successfully revolted and formed the United Provinces.

In 1528, the secular powers of the bishop over both Neder-and Oversticht – which included the city of Utrecht – were transferred to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, who became the Lord of the Seventeen Provinces ( the current Benelux and the northern parts of France ).

Their possessions can be renamed into the Burgundian Netherlands and the succeeding Habsburg Netherlands, also called the United Seventeen Provinces ( up to 1581 ), and later for the Southern parts as the Spanish Netherlands and Austrian Netherlands, whereas the northern parts formed the autonomous Dutch Republic.

At times they reached a form of unity as the United Seventeen Provinces in the 16th Century, and later the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in the 19th Century.

In the following century the " Low Countries " corresponded roughly to the Seventeen Provinces covered by the Pragmatic Sanction of 1549 of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, which freed the provinces from their archaic feudal obligations.

* Seventeen Provinces

Historically it had been a part of the Netherlands ( Seventeen Provinces or Burgundian Netherlands ), up to 1648, but Luxembourg was still a part of the discussions.

In 1549 Holy Roman Emperor Charles V issued the Pragmatic Sanction, which further unified the Seventeen Provinces under his rule.

In 1543, Gelderland became one of the Seventeen Provinces of the Habsburg Netherlands, though not one of the richer or more densely-populated provinces.

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Charles united Guelders with the Seventeen Provinces of the Habsburg Netherlands, and Guelders finally lost its independence.

Willem Barentsz was born around the year 1550 on the island Terschelling in the Seventeen Provinces.

# Margaret of Austria ( 1480-1530 ) who was Governor of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands ( 1507 – 1515, 1519 – 1530 ) and a daughter of Maximilian I and Mary of Burgundy and had no children from this marriage.

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This status quo remained intact — at least on paper — until 1528, although by then both Flanders on the left bank and Zeeland and Brabant on the right were part of the Habsburg possessions of the Seventeen Provinces.

The Seventeen Provinces were a personal union of states in the Low Countries in the 15th century and 16th century, roughly covering the current Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, a good part of the North of France ( Artois, French Flanders ), and a small part of Western Germany.

Seventeen months after al-Adid's death, Nur ad-Din had not taken any action regarding Egypt, but expected some return for the 200, 000 dinars he had allocated to Shirkuh's army which seized the country.

Seventeen of eighteen women with hirsutism treated with combination therapy of Flutamide 250 mg twice daily and an oral contraceptive pill had a rapid and marked reduction in their hirsutism score.

Seventeen of the houses had arcaded portico walks organised in groups of four and six either side of James Street on the north side, and three and four either side of Russell Street.

Seventeen years later, in 1862, the self-proclaimed French Emperor Napoleon III brought Joseph Bonaparte's remains back to France and had them inhumed to the right of his younger brother, the Emperor Napoleon I.

23 % of sexually active young women in a 1996 Seventeen magazine poll admitted to having had unprotected sex with a partner who did not use a condom, while 70 % of girls in a 1997 PARADE poll claimed it was embarrassing to buy birth control or request information from a doctor.

Belair claimed that his copyright designs of young women with " large heads, oval eyes, small bodies and large feet ," which he had created for shoe designer house Steve Madden, were " pilfered " when Carter Bryant, during his 2008 court testimony, testified that he had been inspired by Steve Madden shoe ads which he saw in Seventeen magazine.

Seventeen years after it had rejected him, Leslie offered to sell the company to Hammond.

" Seventeen seconds later, at 22: 24: 45 AT ( 01: 24: 45 UTC ), Loew informed ATC Halifax that " Swissair 111 heavy is declaring emergency ", repeated the emergency declaration one second later, and over the next 10 seconds stated that they had descended to " between 12, 000 and 5, 000 feet " and once more declared an emergency.

Seventeen days later, he received a letter from the State Department informing him that he was still an American, because he had not obtained the right to reside elsewhere.

Seventeen winners had their work supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and 16 winners were also recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for History.

By election day, the UPC had achieved some exceptional advantages, summarized by Minority Rights Group Report Number 66 as follows: Seventeen UPC candidates were declared " unopposed " by the simple procedure of not allowing DP or other candidates to run against them.

Seventeen years after his death, the Methodists returned his ministerial papers to his son, and formally acknowledged that they had wronged him.

She has had media features on CNN, BBC, CBC, FOX, Al Jazeera and numerous radio shows, talk shows and print including Glamour, Seventeen, Chatelaine, Flare, Elle and Vanity Fair magazine.

He also had a small part in Seventeen Again with Tia, Tamara and Tahj Mowry.

Seventeen individuals had already lived or worked in more than one state or colony: Baldwin, Bassett, Bedford, Dickinson, Few, Franklin, Ingersoll, Hamilton < includeonly > First lived and studied in New Jersey, then moved to New York to attend college </ includeonly >, Livingston, Alexander Martieno, Luther Martin, Mercer, Gouverneur Morris, Robert Morris, Read, Sherman, and Williamson.

Seventeen years prior, Discovery had flown NASA's previous Return to Flight mission, STS-26.

The Seventeen Provinces of the Habsburg Netherlands had only been united in a personal union by Charles V with the incorporation of the duchy of Guelders in his Burgundian territories in 1544, and been constituted as a separate entity with his Pragmatic Sanction of 1549.

Seventeen days after Renfro's death, his grandmother Joanne – who had raised him and accompanied him regularly during his early acting career – died at her home at the age of 76.

Victor did better with Paint Your Wagon, and Damn Yankees, but had their share of flops: Seventeen, Make a Wish, Hazel Flagg, and Pipe Dream, along with minor hits Me and Juliet, Happy Hunting, New Girl in Town, Jamaica, Redhead, Take Me Along, Do Re Mi, Wildcat, and Milk and Honey.

King had a successful early career as a fashion model, and by age fifteen she had been featured in the fashion magazines Vogue, Mademoiselle, Allure, and Seventeen.