Low Countries

American  

plural noun

1. the lowland region near the North Sea, forming the lower basin of the Rhine, Meuse, and Scheldt rivers, divided in the Middle Ages into numerous small states: corresponding to modern Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.

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Low Countries British  

plural noun

1. the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands

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Low Countries

The Swiss Brethren was one of several Anabaptist churches—churches rejecting infant baptism in favor of adult baptism—that were established in the sixteenth century, primarily in central Europe and the Low Countries.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

Without overwhelming help from the Allies in World Wars I and II, France and the Low Countries of Netherlands and Belgium would have been overrun by the Nazis.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2022

Several of the most popular urbanist Twitter accounts are based in the Low Countries and Scandinavia, with many followers across the Atlantic.

From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2022

Gin’s origins are obscure, but it almost certainly began as jenever in the medieval Low Countries.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2016

That day, he was in Breda, in the Low Countries, serving in the army of the Protestant Maurice of Nassau.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton