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.

The Seventeen Provinces had been unified by Charles ' Burgundian ancestors, but nominally were fiefs of either France or the Holy Roman Empire.

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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.

* July – History of the Ursulines in New Orleans: Seventeen Ursuline Sisters from France land in New Orleans, Louisiana, where they found the orphanage which is the predecessor of the Catholic Charities and the Ursuline Academy, making the latter the oldest continuously-operating school for girls and the oldest Catholic school in the United States.

Seventeen and 7 months pregnant, Novalee Nation ( Natalie Portman ) sets off on a road trip from Tennessee to California with her ignorant ne ' er-do-well boyfriend, Willy Jack Pickens ( Dylan Bruno ).

Seventeen percent of visitors were from outside the United States ; the most prominently represented nations were the United Kingdom ( 3. 8 %), Canada ( 3. 5 %), Japan ( 2. 1 %), Germany ( 1. 9 %) and The Netherlands ( 1. 2 %).

Seventeen representatives from each side swear an oath to uphold the treaty, which is meant to last for thirty years or one generation ( meaning they are not responsible for the next generation's decision ).

Several travelers rest stops were established at various road distances from Colusa, including Five Mile House, Seven Mile House, Nine Mile House, Ten Mile House, Eleven Mile House, Fourteen Mile House ( also called Sterling Ranch ), Sixteen Mile House ( at the current location of Princeton ), and Seventeen Mile House.

Seventeen of the fatalities were in the northern portion of Oxford Township, from the Oakwood village area to Thomas.

Along with the Banshees, early Cure gigs from 1978-1979 supporting post-punk bands such as Wire and Joy Division also influenced Robert Smith's shift in musical direction from The Cure's 1979 album Three Imaginary Boys to 1980's sophomore effort Seventeen Seconds.

Taking their new name from a fictional pop group mentioned in Anthony Burgess's novel, A Clockwork Orange, ( where The Heaven Seventeen are at number 4 in the charts with " Inside "), they became Heaven 17 and formed the production company British Electric Foundation ( BEF ).

It features songs from both The Better Life and Away from the Sun, and even some early sketches of " It's Not Me " and " Father's Son ", which were both eventually released on Seventeen Days.

Seventeen representatives from each side swore an oath to uphold the treaty, which was meant to last for fifty years.

Screen shot from the 1916 film Seventeen.

Radio and MTV hits from the album included " Madalaine ", " Seventeen ", " Headed for a Heartbreak " and " Hungry ".

It has evolved from the representative government of the Seventeen Provinces, later of the United Provinces, which was also called states general.

* " Seventeen ", a song by Jimmy Eat World from Static Prevails

* " Seventeen ", a song by Marina & the Diamonds from the US edition of The Family Jewels

* " Seventeen ", a song by Mat Kearney from the iTunes edition of Young Love

* " Seventeen ", a song from the Repo!

* " Seventeen Ain't So Sweet ", a song by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus from Don't You Fake It