austrian netherlands

Following the Napoleonic wars, Austria parted with Belgium in favor for having a territorially contiguous territory with Lombardy-Venetia. And this would require a complete 180 on the Austrian goals when they went into the negotiations as they did not want to border France but with security...

Hi, everyone. This is my second post sharing some lesser-known yet fascinating PoDs in European history. I stumbled upon a historical academic journal written by Frederik Dhondt, a history professor from the Ghent University in Belgium titled "So Great a Revolution’: Charles Townshend and the...

Chapter I. Para Bellum Jan Frans Vonck and his faction within the Austrian Netherlands, the Vonckists are arrested by austrian authorities, in the years leading up the 1789 Brabantine Revolution. Meanwhile, Henri Van Der Noot, is in exile in the Dutch City of Breda, and is amassing an army of...

What if not The Netherlands got the former Austrian Netherlands but another country, I would say Austria. Would The Netherlands in this scenario get back all there pre-1795 colonies, or would they get the same colonies as in OTL. And furthermore three questions: Would the Dutch still got some...

France has a long history of wanting what we now call 'Belgium,' dating all the way back to when West Francia had the Belgian west coast. Despite this, the only time it ever came close to holding the territory was under napoleon's hegemonic reign. However, during the reign of Louis XIV, France...

Exactly as the title suggests, I'm curious about the future implications of Habsburg Artois and Franche-Comté after 1713. Tell me what you think!

The United Belgian States were a loose confederation of rebel states located in the previous territory of the Austrian Netherlands, which declared independence in negative response to attempted centralizing and anti-clerical reforms carried out by the austrian crown in the area. The UBS's...