Bouches-du-Rhin
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thumb|Location of Bouches-du-Rhin in France (1812) Bouches-du-Rhin (; "Mouths of the Rhine", ) was a department of the First French Empire in the present-day Netherlands. It was named after the mouth of the river Rhine. It was formed in 1810, when the Kingdom of Holland was annexed by France. Its territory corresponded with the eastern half of the present-day Dutch province of North Brabant and a part of the province of Gelderland. Its capital was 's-Hertogenbosch.
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It sits within the topics 1810 establishments in the First French Empire, Former departments of France in the Netherlands and History of Gelderland.
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- Instance of
- department of France
- Named after
- Rhine
- Official name
- Bouches-du-Rhin
- Country
- France
- Capital
- 's-Hertogenbosch
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- inception
- 1810-04-24
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1814-05-30
- exact match
- www.gemeentegeschiedenis.nl/departement/MR
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thumb|Location of Bouches-du-Rhin in France (1812) Bouches-du-Rhin (; "Mouths of the Rhine", ) was a department of the First French Empire in the present-day Netherlands. It was named after the mouth of the river Rhine. It was formed in 1810, when the Kingdom of Holland was annexed by France. Its territory corresponded with the eastern half of the present-day Dutch province of North Brabant and a part of the province of Gelderland. Its capital was 's-Hertogenbosch.
The department was subdivided into the following arrondissements and cantons (situation in 1812): 's-Hertogenbosch, cantons: 's-Hertogenbosch, Boxtel, Heusden, Oisterwijk, Oss, Tilburg, Waalwijk and Zaltbommel. Eindhoven, cantons: Asten, Eindhoven, Gemert, Helmond, Hilvarenbeek, Oirschot and Sint-Oedenrode. Nijmegen, cantons: Boxmeer, Druten, Grave, Nijmegen, Ravenstein and Wijchen.
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