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| Province of Limburg | |||||||||||||
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| Province of theNetherlands (1815–1830) Belgium (1830–1839) | |||||||||||||
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 Coat of arms | |||||||||||||
 The United Kingdom of the Netherlands with the Province of Limburg in greyish green | |||||||||||||
| Capital | Maastricht | ||||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||||
| Governor | |||||||||||||
• 1815–1828 | Charles de Brouckère | ||||||||||||
• 1828–1831 | Maximilien de Beeckman | ||||||||||||
| Legislature | States of Limburg | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
• Established | 1815 | ||||||||||||
| 19 April 1839 | |||||||||||||
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Limburg (Dutch:Provincie Limburg,French:Province de Limbourg) was one of the provinces of theUnited Kingdom of the Netherlands and laterBelgium. The province existed for the duration of the United Kingdom, from 1815 to 1830, and for the first years afterBelgian independence, from 1830 to 1839. When KingWilliam I signed theTreaty of London in 1839, the province was split into aBelgian part and a Dutch part, the latter being a newDuchy of Limburg.
The territory of Limburg was the same as the combined territories of the present Dutch and Belgian provinces, with the exception ofVoeren, which was a part ofLiège Province at the time. Its capital wasMaastricht.
For legal matters, the province was subdivided into thearrondissements ofMaastricht,Hasselt andRoermond.
In 1830, some 338,000 people lived in this province and in 1846, about 186,000 people were counted in the new, smaller province of Belgian Limburg.[1]
Their main religion was, and still is, Roman Catholicism.
Following theNapoleonic Era, the great powers,United Kingdom,Prussia, theAustrian Empire, theRussian Empire andFrance, created a new United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815. A new province was formed from the formerFrench Empire département ofMeuse-Inférieure, excludingNiederkrüchten andHerzogenrath which were assigned to Prussia, and was to receive the name "Maastricht", after its capital. The first king,William I, who did not want the name of the formerDuchy of Limburg to be lost, insisted that the name be changed to "Limburg". As such, the name of the new province derived from the old duchy that had existed until 1795 within the triangle of Maastricht,Liège, andAachen.
At the start of theBelgian Revolution of 1830, General Daine, the commander of the provincial armed forces of Limburg, situated in Maastricht, chose the side of the Belgian rebels.[2] He left the city on 7 November 1830. He arrived atRoermond on 9 November and at Venlo on 11 November. Both cities welcomed him with open arms and sided with the rebellion. However, Maastricht was back under control by loyalist forces under the command of Colonel Dibbets.
Although most of the province, including the fortress city of Venlo, at the time Belgium's northernmost fortress, was under Belgian control following Belgium'sde facto independence after French intervention, the city of Maastricht remained in Dutch hands.
In 1839, King William I recognised the independence of Belgium by signing theTreaty of London. Under the terms of the treaty, the Belgians had to relinquish the eastern part of Limburg to theNetherlands.
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