North Brabant,

North Brabant is a province within the south of the Netherlands. It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north, Limburg to the east, Zeeland to the west, and Belgium to the south. The northern border follows the Meuse westward to its mouth within the Hollands Diep strait, part of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta. The Duchy of Brabant turned into a kingdom of the Holy Roman Empire mounted in 1183 or 1190. It advanced from the Landgraviate of Brabant and formed the heart of the ancient Low Countries, part of the Burgundian

Netherlands from 1430 and of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1482, till it turned into split up after the Dutch revolt. After the War of Independence, Catholics in the Southern Netherlands had been systematically and formally discriminated against by way of the Northern Protestant government till the second one 1/2 of the nineteenth century, which had a chief affect at the economic and cultural development of the southern a part of the Netherlands.