Ghent pacification
The Ghent pacification is a treaty concluded in Ghent on November 8, 1576 , through which Holland and Zeeland and the southern provinces promised each other help to drive the Spanish troops off Dutch soil.
Soon after this treaty was signed, the other northern provinces also joined the Ghent pacification. The governor-general Juan de Austria had to approve the pacification in the so-called Eternal Edict of Marche-en-Famenne on February 12, 1577 , after which the Spaniards left the country.