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Four hundred years ago, on the 8th November 1576, an announcement was made from the balcony of the town hall in Ghent that an agreement had been reached between the representatives of William of Orange and the provinces of Holland and Zeeland on the one hand, and the delegates of most of the remaining provinces of the Netherlands on the other. After eight years of rebellion it had been mutually agreed that the Spanish troops should be driven from the Seventeen Provinces, and that solutions to certain other contentious issues should also be sought.1
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Baelde, M. (1979). The Pacification of Ghent in 1576: Hope and Uncertainty in the Netherlands. In: Schöffer, I. (eds) The Low Countries History Yearbook 1978. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9294-8_1
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