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Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands
1813–1815
The transitional state between the collapse of Napoleonic rule and the Kingdom. After the French were expelled, a provisional government (the Triumvirate) proclaimed the return of the House of Orange; William Frederick landed at Scheveningen on 30 November 1813 and was proclaimed Sovereign Prince on 1 December 1813, taking over government on 6 December and adopting a constitution on 29 March 1814.
- Existed
- 1813–1815
- Shown on the map
- 1814
- Peak area
- 36k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
The transitional state between the collapse of Napoleonic rule and the Kingdom. After the French were expelled, a provisional government (the Triumvirate) proclaimed the return of the House of Orange; William Frederick landed at Scheveningen on 30 November 1813 and was proclaimed Sovereign Prince on 1 December 1813, taking over government on 6 December and adopting a constitution on 29 March 1814. In 1814 he was also given sovereignty over the Southern Netherlands. He transformed the principality into the Kingdom of the Netherlands when he assumed the royal title as William I on 16 March 1815, amid the Congress of Vienna and Napoleon's return.
Common questions
- What was the Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands?
- The transitional state between the collapse of Napoleonic rule and the Kingdom. After the French were expelled, a provisional government (the Triumvirate) proclaimed the return of the House of Orange; William Frederick landed at Scheveningen on 30 November 1813 and was proclaimed Sovereign Prince on 1 December 1813, taking over government on 6 December and adopting a constitution on 29 March 1814.
- When did the Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands exist?
- The Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands existed 1813–1815. On this map it is drawn 1814.
- How large was the Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands covered about 36,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each territory as the primary basis, cross-checked against Encyclopædia Britannica and specialist snippets, and flags entries built on unreliable foundations — the 911 treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte known only from Dudo of Saint-Quentin, and Arnaud Amalric's alleged order at Béziers attested only decades after the fact. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Principality_of_the_United_Netherlands
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Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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