the secession of Belgium from the Netherlands to distinguish the period from what came after. Apart from this largely intellectual use, the term "Netherlandish" as adjective is not commonly used in English, unlike its Dutch equivalent. Many languages, however, do have a cognate or calque derived from the Dutch adjective Nederlands: Toponyms Burgundian Netherlands: Low Countries provinces held by the House of Valois-Burgundy (1384–1482) Habsburg Netherlands: Low Countries provinces held by the House of Habsburg and later the Spanish Empire (1482–1581) Seven United Netherlands: Dutch Republic (1581–1795) Southern Netherlands: comprising present Belgium, Luxembourg and parts of northern France (1579–1794) Spanish Netherlands: comprising present Belgium, Luxembourg and parts of northern France (1579–1713) Austrian Netherlands: comprising present Belgium, Luxembourg and parts of northern France under Habsburg rule (after 1713) Sovereign Principality of the United Netherlands: short-lived precursor of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1813–1815) United Kingdom of the Netherlands: unification of the Northern Netherlands and the Southern Netherlands (Belgium and Luxembourg) (1815–1830) Kingdom of the Netherlands: kingdom with the Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten as constituent countries Netherlands: European part of the kingdom of the Netherlands New Netherland: Former Dutch colony established in 1625 centred on New Amsterdam (the modern New York City) Low Countries The Low Countries () refers to the historical region de Nederlanden: those principalities located on and near the mostly low-lying land around the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta. That region corresponds to all of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, forming the Benelux. The name "Benelux" is formed from joining the first two or three letters of each country's name Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg. It was first used to name the customs agreement that initiated the union (signed in 1944) and is now used more generally to refer to the geopolitical and economical grouping of the three countries, while "Low Countries" is used in a more cultural or historical context. In many languages the nomenclature "Low Countries" can both refer to the cultural and historical region comprising present-day Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and to "the Netherlands" alone, e.g., Les Pays-Bas in French, Los Países Bajos in Spanish and i Paesi Bassi in Italian. Several other languages have literally translated "Low Countries" into their own language to refer to the Dutch language: Croatian: Nizozemski Czech: Nizozemština Irish: Ísiltíris Southern Min: / (Kē-tē-gú) Serbian: низоземски (nizozemski) Slovene: nizozemščina Welsh: Iseldireg Names from local polities Flanders (pars pro toto) Flemish ()