Bouches-de-l'Escaut department

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The department of Bouches de l'Escaut ( German  Department of the Scheldt estuaries ; Dutch department of the moons van de Schelde ) was a 1810 to 1813 the French state belonging department . It was named after the mouth of the Scheldt . This department should not be confused with the Département de l´Escaut ( Department of the Scheldt ), which lies to the south and also belonged to France from 1795 to 1814.

history

The King of Holland ceded to France on the basis of a Paris treatise of March 16, 1810, “all of Zealand, including the islands of Schouwen and Geldern on the left side of the Waal”, so that the border between Holland and France through the valley path of the Waal was formed from Schenkenschanz on. This area should form its own department.

The area of ​​the department is now part of the Dutch province of Zeeland .

structure

The main town ( chef-lieu ) of the department or seat of the prefecture was the city of Middelburg in what is now the Dutch province of Zeeland . It was divided into three arrondissements and ten cantons :

Arrondissement Main towns in the cantons, seat of the courts of justice
Middelbourg Middelburg , Veere , Vlissingen ,
Goes Goes , Heinkenszand , Kortgene , Kruiningen
Zierikzee Zierikzee , Brouwershaven , Tholen

The department had an area of ​​680 square kilometers and in 1812 a total of 76,820 inhabitants.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albrecht Friedrich Ludolph Lasius : The French Kayser State under the government of the Kayser Napoleon the Great in 1812 . A Geographical-Historical Manual, First Department, Osnabrück: Johann Gottfried Kißling, 1813, p. 70 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ a b Almanach Impérial 1812 , Paris, p. 377 ( Bibliothèque nationale de France )