Treaty of Raalte
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The Treaty of Raalte was signed on 1 October 1657 by Willem III and resulted in Willem giving up the stadtholder
ship of Overijssel
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Stadtholder
A Stadtholder A Stadtholder A Stadtholder (Dutch: stadhouder [], "steward" or "lieutenant", literally place holder, holding someones place, possibly a calque of German Statthalter, French lieutenant, or Middle Latin locum tenens...
ship of Overijssel
Overijssel
Overijssel is a province of the Netherlands in the central eastern part of the country. The region has a NUTS classification of NL21. The province's name means "Lands across river IJssel". The capital city of Overijssel is Zwolle and the largest city is Enschede...
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Further reading
- Prak, Maarten Roy (translated by Diane Webb). The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century: the Golden Age. Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 0521843529