History of Antwerp Province

1944 battle in northern Belgium and southwestern Netherlands during World War II

former country

1597 battle

Deux-Nèthes (, ) was a department of the First French Republic and of the First French Empire in present-day Belgium and the Netherlands. It was named after two branches of the river Nete (Grote Nete and Kleine Nete). The southern part of its territory corresponds more or less with the present-day Belgian province of Antwerp. It was created on 1 October 1795, when the Austrian Netherlands were officially annexed by the French Republic. Its territory was the northern part of the former duchy of Brabant. After the annexation of the Kingdom of Holland in 1810, the department was expanded with the

1789 battle between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Belgian émigré army

1578 battle

battle at the fort at Kallo, a village close to Antwerp

1814 battle