KnowraDutch RepublicLinked fromLinked fromThe 76 pages that link to Dutch Republic, each with the reason it gives.All 76Broader topic 14Related 18Narrower topic 36Compared with 8Philip II of SpainCompared with: It became the independent political rival that Philip’s campaigns failed to suppress.Edict of NantesCompared with: Its uneven practical toleration contrasts with Nantes's explicit, centrally issued royal protections.NetherlandsCompared with: It was a republic rather than the monarchy established in the nineteenth century.Spanish NetherlandsCompared with: Its Protestant, republican government contrasted with the Catholic Habsburg monarchy to the south.Habsburg NetherlandsCompared with: It represented the independent north, unlike the Habsburg-held southern provinces.Habsburg SpainCompared with: Its independence turned former Spanish subjects into enduring political and military rivals.Philip III of SpainCompared with: The Republic was Spain’s principal adversary in the Low Countries and the other party to the truce.France in the early modern periodCompared with: Its decentralized republican structure offered a European alternative to Bourbon monarchy.