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<p>The <b>First Stadtholderless Period</b> (1650-72; ) was the period in the history of the <a href="page.php?w=Dutch_Republic">Dutch Republic</a> in which the office of <a href="page.php?w=Stadtholder">Stadtholder</a> was vacant in five of the seven Dutch provinces (the provinces of <a href="page.php?w=Friesland">Friesland</a> and <a href="page.php?w=Groningen_%28province%29">Groningen</a>, however, retained their customary stadtholder from the cadet branch of the <a href="page.php?w=House_of_Orange">House of Orange</a>). It coincided with the</p><p>
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