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Tango0110 Nov 2018 10:28 p.m. PST

"In this case, the belligerents were the Northern Netherlands and the Southern Netherlands.

I don't mean to be pedantic, but I'm going to explain the context as if you don't know anything about how the Netherlands became a country:

The short version is that, originally, the "Netherlands" just referred to the Germanic lowlands, and the area was populated by various counties and duchies that each had their own way of doing things. The Netherlands were, for a time, owned entirely by Spain. Spain, in turn, was being run by the House of Habsburg—royal Austrians who also controlled the Holy Roman Empire for nearly 400 years. So, for our purposes, consider Spain like a subsidiary of the Holy Roman Empire….."
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