Brabant
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Historically, Brabant has been the name of several administrative entities in the Low Countries with quite different geographical extent:
- as Carolingian shire (pagus Bracbatensis), located between the rivers Scheldt and Dijle (between 9th-11th century);
- as landgraviat: the part of the shire between the rivers Dender and Dijle (from 1085/1086 up to 1183/1184);
- The Duchy of Brabant: territory covering approximately the present Dutch province North Brabant, the three Belgian provinces Antwerp, Walloon Brabant and Flemish Brabant, and the Brussels-Capital Region.
- The province of Brabant in Belgium, which has now been split up in Flemish Brabant and Walloon Brabant.
- North Brabant, a province of the Netherlands.
Along the international border between the Netherlands and Belgium there are a few enclaves and exclaves, as relicts of the old duchy of Brabant: the municipalities Baarle-Hertog (Belgium) and Baarle-Nassau (Netherlands).
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See also
- Brabantic, a dialect of the Dutch language.
- Brabant, West Virginia, USA.
- Brabant can also refer to the Belgian Heavy Horse.
- Brabant Island, in Antarctica
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