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<p>There were two <b>Unions of Brussels</b>, both formed in the end of the 1570s, in the opening stages of the <a href="page.php?w=Eighty_Years%27_War">Eighty Years' War</a>, the war of secession from Spanish control, which lasted from 1568 to 1648. <a href="page.php?w=Brussels">Brussels</a> was at that time the capital of the <a href="page.php?w=Seventeen_Provinces">Spanish Netherlands</a>.</p>

<p><big> First Union of Brussels </big></p>
<p>The northern counties of <a href="page.php?w=Holland">Holland</a> and <a href="page.php?w=Zeeland">Zeeland</a> rebelled</p><p>
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