I've just about completed my other historical map of the Low Countries (i.e. Benelux) depicting the cities, battles, and sieges of the Dutch Revolt, so now I can start up on the matching companion to it. Where the previous one was focused on cities and battles, this is a higher-level look at the region's various provinces and territories.

Those territories were, for a time in the 1500s, also known as the "Seventeen Provinces" (although which 17 is something of a debate).

This is a two-part series of maps for my history project, Renaissance Netherlands with Will Phillips.

Since it's a series, I'm using the same map base, border, and art direction as the other. The content is what will be primarily different here.

Tonight and last night have been setting up files and then working on the heraldry, which is about done.

Would like your thoughts on the political borders and shading: do I make the Low Countries territories dark or light?

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