Bouches-de-la-Meuse department
The department of Bouches de la Meuse ( German department of the mouths of the Meuse ; Dutch Departement van de moons van de Maas ) was a 1811 to 1813 the French state belonging department . It emerged from the Dutch department of Maasland in the Kingdom of Holland .
The area roughly corresponds to that of the present-day province of South Holland , as it emerged after the division of the Netherlands (1840).
structure
The main town ( chef-lieu ) of the department or seat of the prefecture was the city of The Hague ( La Haye ). It was divided into six arrondissements and 35 cantons :
Arrondissement | Main towns in the cantons, seat of the courts of justice |
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The Hague ( La Haye ) | Alphen , The Hague (4 cantons), Katwijk , Voorburg |
Brielle | Brielle , Goedereede , Sommelsdijk |
Dordrecht | Dordrecht (2 cantons), Oud-Beijerland , Ridderkerk , Strijen |
Gorinchem ( Gorcum ) | Culemborg , Gorinchem , Sliedrecht |
Leiden ( Leyde ) | Leiden (3 cantons), Noordwijk , Woubrugge |
Rotterdam | Delft (2 cantons), Gouda , Haastrecht , Hillegersberg , Naaldwijk, Rotterdam (4 cantons), Schiedam , Vlaardingen |
The department had an area of 2,062 square kilometers and, according to statistics from 1813, a total of 209,234 inhabitants.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ 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. 73 ( Google Books )
- ↑ a b Almanach Impérial 1813 , Paris, p. 378 ( Bibliothèque nationale de France )